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My involvement in teaching and learning extents to public engagements and leadership positions both within and beyond UWC.
Public Engagement
Public Engagement
Editorial board member, book series: African Political Science and International Relations in Focus, University of Johannesburg Press 2023 - current
Editorial board member, Participedia, Canada. 2023 - current
Mentor, British Academy funded programme on ‘'Governing for Urban Inclusion'. Support early career researchers to publish in high impact journals. 2023 - 2024.
Secretary-Treasurer, Research Committee 05 - Comparative Studies On Local Government And Politics Research Committee, International Political Studies Association. I have set up social media accounts for this committee and presented at the conference. 2016 - current
Steering Committee Member of a global research network, Collaboration for Research on Democracy (CORD). In this capacity I recently won a grant from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) to host an international workshop in Cape Town on the Moral Economy of Protest. As part of the grant we will facilitate the development of early career academics by inviting five PhD students to present their work and potentially publish in an edited journal.
Committee Member, South African Cities Research Network. As a member of this committee I was responsible for UWC hosting a PhD workshop for 20 students from six universities in South Africa in March 2018.
Steering Committee Member and current strategic driver of the Collaborative Programme in Applied Learning for Civil Society Practice (Civics Programme). The Civics Programme is a collaboration between academia and civil society organisations in Cape Town aimed at facilitating new forms of applied learning for students and practitioners about civil society practice to advance development and build democratic citizenship. Through this collaboration I have started new field site visits and research opportunities for Honours students in Political Studies.
Quality of Democracy Caucus Chair, South African Political Studies Association
Member of the Good Governance Learning Network, South Africa. I annually review and edit publications for this network. When opportunities arise I facilitate our students' involvement in this Network.
I am actively engaged in disseminating research findings to the wider community through current news outlets. I have published articles in the Daily Maverick, The Conversation and on News24.
The article 'Cape Town's taxi violence is rooted in attempts to govern competition' was read over 32 000 times.
I have spoken on radio shows about current research. In May 2019 I was invited for a 30 minute interview on 702 Cape Talk to discuss research on 'How cities can approach redesigning informal settlements after disasters'.
In 2018 I was invited to sit on a specialist advisory board looking at designing policy interventions for COGTA in regard public participation at the local government sphere. This is a three year commitment which involves 6 two-day meetings a year. The outputs will include interventions in the green and white papers on public participation.
I am part of a collaborative UWC-University West (Sweden) teaching programme. I have been invited to Sweden for collaborative workshops in 2017 and in 2019 I will be a visiting lecturer, teaching a post-graduate module in Sweden in the 2nd semester. As part of this programme I am spearheading a WIL module. I presented on WIL at a Swedish-South African workshop in May 2019.
See the link to my blogs on the CORD website: http://epress.utsc.utoronto.ca/cord/blog-2/
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External Examining
External Examining
Department
University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Political Studies. Responsible for review of all undergraduate and post-graduate modules. 2022.
Modules
University of Cape Town (UCT) 1st year summer school Public Administration course 2014
UCT 2nd year Comparative Politics 2015, 2017
UCT 1st year summer school Introduction to Politics 2015
UCT 2nd year summer school Comparative Politics 2015
UCT Master's programme: 2017
UCT 3rd year South African Public Policy Analysis 2019
UCT 3rd year Urban Politics and Administration 2019
University of Namibia 2nd year Political Studies 2020
University of Namibia 3rd year Political Studies 2021 June and November - two modules (Political Sociology/ Political Development)
Thesis examiner
1 full Masters thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, 2023
1 PhD for University of Leeds, United Kingdom 2021
1 full Master's thesis for University of Johannesburg 2020
Arbiter for a full Master's thesis for UCT 2020
1 mini Master's thesis for University of Namibia 2020
2 Master's theses for University of Cape Town 2018, 2019
1 mini Master's thesis for Stellenbosch University 2019
1 full Master's thesis for University of the Western Cape 2017
4 mini Master's theses from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2012-2013
PEER REVIEWER
Journals: Citizenship Studies; Urban Studies; Focaal; Journal of Asian and African Studies; Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Poletia; Politikon; Theoria; Urban Forum; Special edition reviewer: Transformation; Institute for Development Studies (Sussex); Development Studies Research .
Books: UKZN Press
Ratings and Funding Proposals:
Reviewer for five year DST/NRF South African Research Chair
South African National Research Foundation (NRF)/ Swedish STINT funding proposal
NRF reviewer for rating of individual researchers
Faculty Administration
Faculty Administration
2020 - 2022 - Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in EMS.
Spearheaded multiple learning and teaching initiatives including: realigning academic literacies in the Faculty in line with current best practice; mapping and improving use of Learning Management Systems by staff in EMS; centralising learning and teaching information in a new website portal; enhancing and supporting a new Graduate Assistant programme; streamlining tutor management processes and working with departments to design hybrid learning methods.
Faculty Committees
Faculty Committees
Chair of Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee and Faculty Student Affairs Committee. Nov 2020 - June 2022
Member of three Senate committees (Senate, Teaching and Learning, Library) Nov 2020 - June 2022
Member of EMS General Appointments Committee, 2019 - current
Member of EMS Management Committee Nov 2020 – June 2022
Member of EMS Faculty Advisory Board, Nov 2020 – June 2022
Member of EMS Academic Planning Committee Nov 2020 – June 2022
Member of the Small Business Clinic Advisory Board Nov 2020 – June 2022
Line Manager for the EMS Academic Literacies Programme and the Extended Curricular Programme Nov 2020 – June 2022
Responsible for managing Learning and Teaching Grants for the EMS Faculty. Nov 2020 - June 2022
Member of EMS Teaching and Learning Committee 2022 - current
2020: 'Online champion' responsible for co-ordinating departmental move to online teaching during COVID-19 lockdown.
2014- 2019: Post-graduate co-ordinator 2014-2019. First line of responsibility for all post-graduate students. Faculty member of the Higher Degrees Committee. Facilitate post-graduate orientation. Oversee Masters and PhD proposals.
Departmental Administration
Departmental Administration
Within my Department, I served in the following administrative capacities for 5 years:
Post-graduate co-ordinator. This role has many responsibilities including:
First point of communication for all post-graduate applications
Co-ordinating all post-graduate events, workshops etc.
Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Students Selection Committee
Oversight of all post-graduate proposals and EMSHD work
Maintaining information on all post-graduate students
First year module coordinator for Pol 131 and second year module coordinator for Pol 231
2014-2015 Departmental Seminar Series Coordinator
2023 Departmental Honour Co-ordinator
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