Staff Profiles

M.S. (Geography) Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

Bachelor of Arts (Humanities), University of Botswana

Diploma in Secondary Education, Humanities (Geography & English), University of Botswana

Sethunya Simela is a Human Geographer, trained in Population and Health/Medical Geography. She joined the University of Botswana as a Staff Development Fellow and later studied for a Masters degree in Geography at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. After this training she came back to teach Human Environmental Science courses here at the University of Botswana.She has taught not only foundation human environment courses, namely Elements of Human Geography but also Health/Medical Geography and Population Geography. Other courses that she has been instructor of include Quantitative Techniques courses, specifically Techniques in Population Geography.

She has recently developed interest in Environmental Assessments, having joined a team of supervisors of graduate students whose interests are heavily along those areas.

Teaching human Environment and Quantitative Techniques in  Geography courses:

Undergraduate:

Environment and Disease

Health Care Geography

Concepts and Principles of Population Geography

Quantitative Techniques in Environmental Science

Quantitative Techniques in Population Geography

Advanced Techniques in Population Geography

Research Essay

Graduate:

ENS 638: Population, Environment and Development

Health/Medical and population geography: Areas of specialization include:

HIV/AIDS Home-Based Caregiving Space

Health service utilization and accessibility and in particular HIV/AIDS related health care services with a focus on vulnerable populations;

Indigenous populations and health

climate change and sustainable livelihoods

Environmental Assesment

Investigating the Participatory Planning and EIA Processes of the Lobatse Sports Complex and BMC sewage ponds: The Case of Maokaneng ward Locality in Lobatse,Botswana.

Assessing the adequacy of EIA reports in prediction and mitigation of Fuel Stations associated environmental impacts: A case of Fuel stations in Ramotswa,Botswana.

Sustainable Livelihoods

The Impact of Deforestation of colophospermum mopane on Mopane Worm and  The Rural Livelihoods in Mosu Village,Bots

Maphanyane, J. G., Mapeo, R. B., & Simela, S. (August 2017). Emerging Approaches toData Management for a New Geospatial Science Research: The Essences and Methodologies of Data Matter Perspective. In J. G. Maphanyane, R. B. Mapeo, M. O. Akinola., J. G. Maphanyane, R. B. Mapeo, & M. O. Akinola. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Geospatial Science and Technologies (pp. 304 - 336). Hershey, Pennsylvania , USA: IGI Global