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Each keynote speaker at HECU offers us a 'think piece' related to the conference theme. These short pieces will form the basis of their addresses and also provide the platform for our conversations at the conference. All abstract submissions need to clearly refer to at least one of the think pieces. This is one of the ways in which the HECU conference enables a space for close-up deliberations.
Professor Siphokazi Magadla
Prof. Siphokazi Magadla is from Ludaka in Ngqeleni. She is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. She teaches and researches on war and militarism in Africa; armed struggle in South Africa; women and South African foreign policy; and African feminisms, gender and citizenship. She is the author of the book ‘Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa’ (UKZN Press, 2023). She is the co-editor of the Journal Special Issue Thirty years of Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy (2021) in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. She serves on the editorial boards of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and the African Journal of Conflict Resolution. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. She is an academic mentor of the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship and the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows programme. She was awarded the Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018. She served in the High-Level Review Panel of the State Security Agency.
Read Siphokazi's thinkpiece here. It is entitled Trust as a condition for “radical entanglement”
Professor Sarah Elaine Eaton
Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is an associate professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada and holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia. She has received research awards of excellence for her scholarship on academic integrity from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) (2020) and the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) (2022). Dr. Eaton has written and presented extensively on academic integrity and ethics in higher education and is regularly invited as a media guest to talk about academic misconduct. She is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity.
Her books include Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity, Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton & Christensen Hughes, eds.), Contract Cheating in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Policy (Eaton, Curtis, Stoesz, Clare, Rundle, & Seeland, eds.), and Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education (Eaton & Khan, eds.) and Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education (Eaton, Carmichael, & Pethrick, eds.). She is also the editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Academic Integrity (2nd ed., Springer), which is currently under development. Dr. Eaton is an elected member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Council.
Read Sarah's Think Piece here. It is entitled Trust as a Foundation for Ethics and Integrity in Educational Contexts.
Professor Mikateko Mathebula
Mikateko Mathebula is an Associate Professor at the SARCHI Chair’s Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme, University of the Free State, South Africa. Her work examines through a capabilities lens, the relationship between processes of higher education, ‘development’ and human flourishing in the South African context, with a focus on youth from low-income households and/or rural areas. Recently completed projects include a photovoice scoping study on pursuing higher education in contexts of socio-spatial exclusion, working with youth from an upgraded informal settlement in the Free State; and a study with student activists where digital storytelling and participatory video were used to capture students’ aspirations for universities as sustainable communities.
Her current project investigates the contribution that universities make to the transformation of rural communities, by exploring, describing, and documenting through narratives, the post-university life trajectories of youth from rural areas in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces.
Her latest book, ‘Low-income students, human development and higher education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes’ which is co-authored by Melanie Walker, Monica McLean and Patience Mukwambo is based on the longitudinal Miratho project which examined the factors and dynamics that influence higher education access, participation and outcomes for low-income youth from rural areas and townships in South Africa.
Read Mikateko's Think Piece here. It is entitled Building, repairing and maintaining trust in research relationships: towards an ethics of trust.
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