Dr. Ronald Ssengendo, PhD

Research Interests:  Geoid Modelling, GNSS, Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration & Women’s rights to land

Dr. Ronald Ssengendo, PhD is a Lecturer in the Department of Geomatics and Land Management, College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT), Makerere University. He holds a PhD in Geodesy and Geoinformatics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, MSc in Engineering Surveying and Geodesy (Distinction) from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a BSc in Surveying (First Class Honours) from Makerere University. His research interests include geoid modelling, GNSS applications, fit‑for‑purpose land administration, and women’s rights to land. Dr. Ssengendo teaches courses in land tenure, governance, cartography, land disputes, and policy, while supervising MSc and PhD students on topics ranging from spatial planning and property markets to land tenure security. He has published widely in geomatics and land administration journals and serves on editorial boards, conference committees, and professional councils, contributing to both academic scholarship and community engagement in Uganda and Eastern Africa.

1. MLM7102 Land Tenure, Governance and Gender Studies
2. MLM 7103 Land Valuation and Real Estate Management 
3. GLM 7104 Advanced Cartography and Geovisualization
4. MLM 7203 Land Disputes and Conflicts Management
5. MLM 7207 Advanced Land Policy
6. LSG 2205 Land Law for Surveyors
7. LSG 4202 Land Administration and Registration

MSc Students supervised to completion

1. Emuron Alex – Assessing the effects of land conflicts on household food security in Bunambatya subcounty
2. Amanya Dreck – Real Estate Investment Trusts as an alternative to financing for housing development in Uganda: a study of awareness, knowledge and intentions of property developers and institutional investors
3. Ssemwanga Davis – Quantifying the Spatial Variation of the effect of COVID-19 on Property activity in Kampala District  
4. Nagula Brendah – Assessing the Impact of spatial Planning on the spread of COVID-19 in Kampala City
5. Kamoga Joseph – Assessing the accuracy of OpenStreetMap (OSM) building layer in Jinja district Uganda
6. Lubwama Raymond Peter- A spatial-temporal approach to assess the impact of urbanization on peri-urban cultural heritage sites – a case study of Naggalabi Coronation site (2002-2015)
7. Sseguya Fred – Determining vulnerability to impacts of fllods amongst heterogeneous communities in the Nyamwamba catement Western Uganda

Phd Student currently supervising

1. Carolyne N. Tumuhimbise – Integrating Customary Land Rights into Compensation Methods for Compulsory Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Family and Communal Customary Tenure in Northern Uganda

MSc students currently supervising

1. Ssemwanga Robert – Assessment of Land Access and Governance in Informal Settlements of Kampala: Case Study of Kabaawo zone– Mutundwe parish and ST. Francis zone Bwaise III parish
2. Charity Maria – Evaluating the effect of non-integration of CCOs into the UgNLIS on land tenure security in Katine sub-county

Associate Editor Journal of Land Administration in Eastern Africa

• Member Local Organizing Committee: AGRC/EALAN Conference 2025
• Co-Chair Local Organizing Committee: Advances in Geomatics Research Conference, 2021, 2023

• Chairperson: Surveyors Registration Board 2022 – 2024
• Member Governing Council: Institute of Survey & Land Management, Entebbe 2023-to-date
• President: Institution of Surveyors of Uganda 2018-2021
• Chair: Land Surveying Chapter Institution of Surveyors of Uganda 2016-2018
• Member Governing Council: Institute of Survey & Land Management, Entebbe 2016-2019

1. Nagula, B., Ssengendo, R., Omolo, O.F., Bamweyana, I., 2024, Assessing the Impact of Spatial Planning on the Spread of COVID-19 within Kampala City, South African Journal of Geomatics, Vol. 13. No. 2, August 2024, Assessing the Impact of Spatial Planning on the Spread of COVID-19 within Kampala City | South African Journal of Geomatics
2. Ssemwanga, D., Ssengendo, R., Mono, W. L., Bamweyana, I., 2023, Exploring the spatial variation of the effect of COVID-19 on property market activity in Kampala District, South African Journal of Geomatics, Vol. 12. No. 1, February 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sajg.v12i1.2
3. Lengoiboni,M., Katcho, K.,  Siriba, D.,  Ssengendo, R.,  Potell, J.,  Lemmen, C., & Zevenbergen, J., (2021), Strengthening the Eastern Africa Land Administration Network (SEALAN) project in enhancing inter-university collaboration in land administration in Eastern Africa, African Journal of Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, Vol. 4. No. 1, January 2021, https://doi.org/10.48346/IMIST.PRSM/ajlp-gs.v4i1.22920
4. Ssengendo, R., and Gidudu, A., 2020, Towards a New Height Datum for Uganda, South African Journal of Geomatics, Vol. 9. No. 2, September 2020, http://www.sajg.org.za/index.php/sajg/article/view/700
5. Bamweyana, I., Okello, D.A., Ssengendo, R., Mazimwe, A., Ojirot, P., Mubiru, F., Ndungo, L., Kiyingi, C.N., Ndyabakira, A., Bamweyana, S., Zabali, F., 2020, Socio-Economic Vulnerability to COVID-19: The Spatial Case of Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA). Journal of Geographic Information System, 12, 302-318. https://doi.org/10.4236/jgis.2020.124019
6. Sjöberg, L.E, Gidudu, A., Ssengendo, R., 2015, The Uganda Gravimetric Geoid Model  2014 computed by the KTH Method. Journal of Geodetic Science, 2015, 5: 35-46, https://doi.org/10.1515/jogs-2015-0007