Staff Profiles

O.M. Seretse is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has a wide span of experience in industries as well as in academia. He is leader of research team KGOTETSO which works mainly in the field of research in renewable energy & related areas.

Renewable Energy

History of technology 

Energy Conversion

Solid Mechanics etc.

Renewable Energy Systems, Thermal Energy Storage applications

Design & Optimization

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National Diploma in Secretarial Studies (BIAC)

National Certificate in Secretarial (BIAC)

Botswana Elementary Secretarial Course (BIAC)

Tshiamiso Sesinyi is a Personal Secretary in the Department of Industrial Design and Technology.  She has over 33 years of Secretarial experience.  Her key performance areas are:  Customer satisfaction, Availability and retrieval of information, Speed and accuracy of work, Neat and tidy appearance of offices, Availability of refreshments and office requisites and High standard of confidentiality.

PhD Philosophy (Metaphysics).

MA Philosophy.

MA Theology and Religious Studies.

Post Graduate Diploma Education (Double in Moral Education and English).

Bachelor of Arts Humanities (Double Major in Theology and Religious Studies and English).

Dr. Doreen Sesiro is a lecturer at the University of Botswana since 2013. She teaches Philosophy in the areas of Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (Metaphysics) from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In 2023 Dr. Sesiro was among the remarkable graduates who walked the stage during the university of Pretoria's (UP) graduation as she became the first African woman from Botswana to receive a PhD in philosophy. She is also the first Metaphysician among all philosophers in Botswana. She holds an MA in Philosophy from St Augustine College of South Africa. She also hold an MA in Theology and Religious Studies, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a BA in Humanities from the University of Botswana. She completed a Short Course on Supervising Postgraduate Research: Developing Appropriate Research Projects in the Global South Context: Referencing Decolonisation and other African ways of Approaching Post-colonial Social Phenomena at St Augustine College of South Africa in 2024.Her research interests are in areas of Transhumanism, Biotechnological Enhancement and Metaphysics. Dr Sesiro is a member of Transhumanists Africa (TA) Board of Directors and also a member of an intellectual society called CIRCLE (the Circle of Concerned Africa Women Theologians). Besides teaching Dr. Sesiro is a prison minister and a bona fide board member of BOCRI (Botswana Crime Research Institute) in good standing. 

1) Metaphysics

2) Epistemology

3) Ethics

Transhumanism, Personhood, Bio-technological Enhancement, Metaphysics.

1. Recentering African Indigenous Religion(s) through Women: Ntloedibe-Kuswani’s Decolonising Perspective (2024). A Chapter in African Indigenous Religions (AIR) book. Springer. https://images.app.goo.gl/1XxftuvmQZCVMWxK9
2. Would a Transhuman Be Free, Determined or Both? The Metaphysical Aspect of the Botho Perspective (2023). South African Journal of Philosophy, Volume 42 (4). Page 361-371. http://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2023.2288764
3. The Botho perspective on Human and Animal Welfare. A chapter in Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective (2023). Marie-Élise Zovko John Dillon (eds). Springer. Page 203-214.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36659-8
4. Dube, W. M, Gabaitse, R.M, Kebaneilwe, M, Kgalemang, M, Madigele, T, Modie-Moroka, T, Mmolai, S, Motswapong, E.P, Ntloedibe, S, Sesiro, D. Setume, S. D (2016). Botho/Ubuntu: Community Building and Gender Constructions in Botswana.  Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center. 42(1). Pp. 1-21. My task was to do the exposition of Botho.
5. Nawa, S, Sesiro, D, Tabalaka, A (2020). Re-Interpreting Inclusion from Ubuntu Perspective: Towards a Non-exclusionary Approach for Persons with