Dr Roshnee Sunder

Position: Academic Development Practitioner – Faculty of Arts and Design

Email: roshs@dut.ac.za

Tel: 031 373 6514

🆔 ORCID: Roshnee Sunder (0000-0002-0885-3177) – ORCID

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD (PhD in Higher Education)
• MTech: Radiography
• BTech: Radiography; NDip: Diagnostic Radiography
• Certificates in: Web-based Learning & Teaching, Leadership & Management Development, Project Management

BIOGRAPHY

Academic development practitioner, curriculum specialist and higher education scholar with extensive experience in university teaching, academic leadership, curriculum development and review, staff development, student success, research supervision, quality assurance, and diagnostic radiography. Driven by a vision of transformation/disruption in higher education and embraces theories that analyse and critique the multiple layers of forces shaping academic practices; with a goal to uncover opportunities for transforming/disrupting these practices. Current work centres on curriculum transformation, teaching and learning, evidence-informed practice, General Education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in a university of technology context. Former Head of Department of Radiography and recipient of several national and institutional awards for excellence and curriculum innovation. In 2022, she received the Vice Chancellor’s Institutional Award, together with her colleagues, in recognizing valuable contribution to Envision2030’s strategic intent in the Category – CREATIVE- for Curriculum Conversations. In 2012, she received three awards for teaching excellence – the CHE/HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching & Learning Award, the VC Distinguished Teaching Award and Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2006, she received a Cosmonauts Teaching Award for Excellence in the field of eLearning.

Core areas of expertise: Curriculum design, review and transformation; Academic staff development and facilitation; Innovative Teaching, learning and assessment; Student success and evidence-informed practice; SoTL and academic leadership

 RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Sunder, R. & Rathilal, S. (2026). General education in transition at a South African university: faculty agency, institutional culture, and the dynamics of change. In Rantz et al. (Eds.), Rethinking the Purpose, Knowledge and Structure of General Education. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-6592-3.ch007
2. Rathilal, S. & Sunder, R. (2026). Navigating the human dimensions of curricular change: resistance, identity, and leadership in a university-wide reform. Journal of Education, 104, 120-134. https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i104a06
3. Sunder, R. (2024). Beyond gatekeeping: the role of reviewers in enhancing the scholarly impact of manuscripts. The South African Radiographer, 62(1), 5-6. https://doi.org/10.54450/saradio.2024.62.1.827
4. Bwalya, M., Sunder, R., Munsanje, F. & Bwanga, O. (2023). Workplace experiences of diagnostic radiographers, on job satisfaction and staff retention in the public health sector in Lusaka District of Zambia. Medical Journal of Zambia, 50(4), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.55320/mjz.50.4.454
5. Garraway, J., Vahed, A., Sunder, R., Reddy, P., Maharaj, M. & Walters, M. (2019). Time travel through the polytechnic to university nexus: from heartfelt difficulties to new possibilities. Alternation Special Edition, 28. https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2019/sp28.4a5
6. Sunder, R. (2004). Osteoporosis: the shifting scores of BMD. The South African Radiographer.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS, KEYNOTES AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

1. Sunder, R. & Samuel, M. Chronotopes of possibility: reimagining the UoT as a counterinstitution in response to the polycrisis. Paper presented at the 12th Annual SAERA Conference, Durban, 3-6 November.
2. 2025. Sunder, R. The synaptic bridge: a “Glo-Ubuntu” framework for reimagining General Education in the Global South. Paper presented at the 1st Annual Learning, Teaching, Research, Innovation and Engagement Conference, Durban, 27-30 October.
3. 2025. Sunder, R., Mheta, D., Makondo, L. & Luthuli, C. Scholarship in action: leading curriculum transformation for complex futures at DUT. Paper presented at the 1st Annual Learning, Teaching, Research, Innovation and Engagement Conference, Durban, 27-30 October.
4. 2025. Sunder, R. SoTL as pathfinder: the obstacle becomes the way to curriculum reimagining. Paper presented at the Faculty of Arts and Design Annual Research Conference, Durban, 12-14 November.
5. 2025. Sunder, R., Michael, S. & Brown, C. The identity of a UoT and research. Panel discussion, Tshwane University of Technology, 1 August.
6. 2023. Student success beyond counting numbers: exploring the learnings from an institutional project. DUT Learning and Teaching Imbizo, 13 October.
7. 2022. Building evidence-based cultures… disrupting gazes and practices: a case of Visual Communication Design. Poster presented at DUT Data Day, 4 November.
8. 2021. Using data to inform and transform practices to improve sustainability: exploring the performance data of Cornerstone 101 in the Faculty of Arts and Design. DUT Data Day, 12-14 October.

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