Mary Marcel

Mary Marcel is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences. She is a versatile researcher, advisor and consultant on consumer studies, Human Nutrition and Fashion Design having spent about Seven years in research and university teaching. With a first degree in Family and Consumer Studies (SUA-Tanzania), a Masters in Applied Human Nutrition (Makerere University- Uganda) and a Masters of Design-Fashion (Sunderland University-United Kingdom), Mary Marcel combines academic achievements and development expertise with a focus on educating the community and consumer sciences, nutrition and clothing etiquettes.  Marcel’s expertise is basically on consumers’ awareness on their rights, products choices as well as clothing aspects. She has served as a consultant and project coordinator for a Textile cluster projects in Morogoro. More recently, her focus is on ensuring Tanzania gets its national costume which will be used in different national festival occasions. She wishes to fulfil the missing piece on Tanzania`s identity by designing and producing an attire which will serve as a nation identity.

 

Mary has also contributed to the academic sources of knowledge by publishing the following articles in different sites as shown:

 

  1. Mary R. Marcel1, James S. Chacha1*, Chigozie E. Ofoedu, Nutritional evaluation of complementary porridge formulated from orange-fleshed sweet potato, amaranth grain, pumpkin seed, and soybean flours. December 2021, Food Science & Nutrition DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.2675 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356987467_Nutritional_evaluation_of_complementary_porridge_formulated_from_orangefleshed_sweet_potato_amaranth_grain_pumpkin_seed_and_soybean_flours
  2. Kereth, G. A., & Marcel, M. R. (2021). Consumer awareness on pre-packaged food labelling information towards the purchase of the pre-packaged food products. Research Journal in Advanced Humanities , 2(2). Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/advanced-humanities/article/view/572
  3. M Marcel, F Turyashemererwa, I Mukisa, R Mongi. 2016.  Sensory properties and consumer acceptability of nutrient dense porridge from locally available foods for infants in Tanzania. Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture

Chapter in books- “Education at the Intersection of Globalization and Technology,” An observation done during pandemic 978-1-83962-470-4, visit the book page for details here: http://www.intechopen.com/books/education-at-the-intersection-of-globalization-and-technology

 Contacts:

Email: mary.marcel@sua.ac.tz ; maramakibibi@gmail.com

Mobile phone: +255 714391080

Skype: Mary Marcel