Prof Livingstone Makondo

Mrs Judy Reddy

Mrs Nalini Chitanand

Biography: Nalini Chitanand has practiced in the field of academic development for more than two decades, in various areas of academic staff professional development. The principles of transformative learning and critical reflexivity underpins her practice. She participates in a number of activities within the university, nationally and internationally. Within the university, Nalini currently serves as the coordinator for the Academic Induction Programme, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Programme, Moving the Middle Project of Siyaphumelela 2.0 and the Learning and Teaching Conference Committee. She jointly coordinates the Learning, Teaching & Assessment seminar series, Curriculum Conversations, Curriculum Transformation Project that includes Greening the Curriculum, Decoloniality and Knowledge Building and the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Awards. Nalini is interested in transformative educational practice and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She promotes and conducts research in higher education praxis and advocates for research-informed scholarly higher education.
.
With a pluralistic approach to knowledge building, she draws on a number of theoretical and methodological approaches to inform her practice and research. These include auto|ethnography, narrative inquiry, action research, poetic inquiry and methodologies of post-qualitative research, including posthumanisms and new materialisms. Nalini serves as guest co-editor for two special issues in the South African Journal of Higher Education (SAJHE). She is currently co-editing a book on Academic Staff Development: Disruptions, Complexities, Change (Envisioning new Futures). Her PhD study, which is in progress, focuses on Academic Staff development in a changing South African higher education context.
.
Nalini participates in external engagement activities through national collaborative projects and international research and collaborative activities. She participates as a steering committee member for the national collaborative project, New Academics Transitioning in higher education Project (NATHEP). Nalini serves as a member of the core team of the International Transformative Educational Research Network (ITERN) and is a member of the Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) Centre for Knowledge building, the Action Research network and Transformative Learning network.

Tel No: (+27) 313732277                  Email: nalinic@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: MHSc (DUT); Bachelor of Social Science Honours (Psychology) (UKZN-Howard College); BSS Psychology (UKZN); ETDP SETA Assessor & Moderator; HIV & AIDS Certificate.

Biography: Ntokozo Ndokweni is responsible for the following functions: Curriculum Development and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
Curriculum development’s main goal is to engage with the program and unit teams by providing curriculum development support. Develop additional diagnostic systems in collaboration with other central services and faculty to inform curriculum planning and practices. To provide assistance to program teams in the development and review of programs.
.
Furthermore, Ntokozo works with the ECP team to articulate access into mainstream study through introducing students to discursive practices of selected disciplines
“Recognition of prior learning means the comparison of the previous learning and experience of a learner howsoever obtained against the learning outcomes required for a specified qualification, and the acceptance for purposes of qualification of that which meets the requirements” As a result, the RPL coordinator’s responsibility is to acknowledge the candidate’s previous formal, informal, and non-formal learning abilities, knowledge, and experience. In addition, to aid faculties with the initial administration of assembling portfolio of evidence for potential students.

Tel No: (+27)31 373 2386                   Email: ntokozon2@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: PhD (Social Sciences) (UKZN), Master’s of Social Sciences (UKZN), BA Hons (Philosophy) (UKZN), Certificate in Professional Academic Advising (UFS), Certificate in Research Ethics (UKZN)

Biography: Timothy Obaje currently serves as an Academic Development Practitioner (ADP) at the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Midlands Campuses. As an ADP, he coordinates academic staff’s continuous professional development activities such as: Curriculum Design and Development, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Staff Induction, the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award and Academic Advising. Timothy has over nine years of lecturing experience. He lectured at the University of KwaZulu-Natal between 2011 and 2017 and at the Durban University of Technology between 2016 and 2019. His fields of specialisation include Student Academic Development and Success; Academic Staff Professional Development; Public Administration and Public Policy; Conflict Transformation and Sustainable Peace; International Relations; Philosophical Anthropology and Research Methods. He is a passionate scholar and researcher. His ideas are widely shared at international conferences, conference proceedings, policy briefs, and peer-reviewed journals.

Email: TimothyO@dut.ac.za

Mrs Marí Peté

Mrs Cebokazi Luthuli

Qualifications: MTech Homoeopathy

Biography: Mzwandile Khumalo started working at CELT in 2018, as the coordinator for the First Year Student Experience (FYSE) & Residence Educational Programme (REP) in the Durban Campuses, now a coordinator for the Student Support and Development Unit. He is currently involved in and serves as core team member in the Moving the Middle task team, Sikusekele (We’ve got you) task team and the Student Success task team. He is a scholar and researcher, who has presented his work on student development and success on a number of national and international conferences over his years at CELT.

Tel No: (+27)31 3733122                  Email: MzwandileK@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: BTech (Honours Degree) (Tourism Management) (DUT), National Diploma (Ecotourism Management) (DUT), currently completing Masters of Management Sciences in Business Administration (DUT)

Biography: Peter Kalanga is currently serving as a Teaching & Learning Development Practitioner (TLDP) at Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (CELT), and he is currently coordinating the Student Support programmes. He is responsible for coordinating the First Year Student Experience (FYSE), Residence Educational Programme (REP), Tutorial Services (TS), Tutor Training (TT), and Academic Advising (AA) for Midlands Campuses. Peter had started working as a Coordinator for FYSE and REP at CELT in 2019, after serving five years as a departmental tutor and mentor to Financial Management students under the department of Ecotourism.

Tel No: (+27)31 373 3156                   Email: ThembinkosiK1@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: National Diploma in Business Administration, Degree of Bachelor of Technology in Management and currently registered for a Master’s of Management Sciences in Administration and Information Management.

Biography: Nomnotho Ntsele provides administration support and coordination of the FYSE, SSE, REP &TFL in CELT for both Durban and PMB campuses.

Tel No: (+27)31 3733123                   Email: Nomnothon@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: MTech in Radiography,BTech in Radiography, NDip in Diagnostic Radiography, Certificates in Web-based Learning and Teaching, Leadership & Management Development, and Project Management

Biography: Roshnee Sunder is responsible for AD activities in the faculty – curriculum and staff development, including General Education and eLearning coordination. She serves on the Siyaphumelela Task Team and various faculty committees. Roshnee is completing her PhD in Higher Education, focusing on curriculum studies and she holds qualifications in Radiography. Her other interests include an understanding of how academics experience the workplace and navigate through their multiple roles as teachers, researchers, innovators, role models, change agents, etc.; and in the role of technology in 21^st century higher education. Roshnee remains involved in postgraduate supervision. She is a recipient of CHE/HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching & Learning Award, the Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. In 2006, she received a Cosmonauts Teaching Award for Excellence in the field of eLearning. She is working group member of the iKudu Project, which is focusing on curriculum transformation and virtual exchanges. She also served as a programme reviewer for the CHE and is a current reviewer for The South African Radiographer.

Tel No: (+27)31 3736514                   Email: roshs@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: PhD (Management) (Public Administration) DUT, MSc (International Relations) (University of Zimbabwe), BSc Hons (Political Science) (University of Zimbabwe)

Biography: Nicolle Manjeya is an Academic Development and Literacy researcher based at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa. Her research interests are in academic literacy and development in Higher Education (operational and administrative frameworks of academic literacy and development). She is an active researcher in the nature of the South African Higher Educational landscape and how it continues to evolve. With a PhD in Management Sciences specialising in Higher Education, she investigates and writes about the theoretical and practical experiences of both students and staff that contribute to the development and transformation of academia in South Africa and the world at large.

Tel No: (+27)31 3736514                   Email: nicollem@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: Master Medical Sciences-Physiology (UKZN)

Biography: Nerolen Soobryan supports and develops academics and students in the areas of teaching and learning (LTA). He liaises with the Executive Dean, departmental heads, professional bodies and other Faculty committees in determining the LTA needs in the faculty. Nerolen is the faculty general education coordinator and lecturer.

Tel No: (+27)31 3736637                   Email: Nerolens@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: PhD (Social Sciences) (UKZN); Master’s of Social Policy (UKZN); BA (Psychology) (UKZN)

Biography: Rosheena Jeawon currently serves as an Academic Developer Practitioner in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment. She has been a Co-ordinator of Academic Advising in the Student Support Unit at CELT for the past year. She has a special interest in student development with over 10 years’ experience from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Her research areas are in assessment and effective support systems for first year students in higher education.

Tel No: (+27)31 3732478                   Email: rosheenaj@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: B.Tech Management (DUT); Bachelors Degree in Business Administration BBA ( Technikon Natal – University of Wales); Television and Media production studies (ICESA); Web Based Teaching and Learning (Edtech, CELT – DUT); Project Management Short Course (DUT).

Biography: Jerry Sylvester has been employed by the university for the past 23 years, first by Technikon Natal and later by Durban Institute of Technology and now Durban university of Technology. He has been involved in numerous projects at various levels. He is knowledgeable and well versed in all aspects of multimedia and associated technologies. At present he is working towards his Masters in Education.

Tel No: (+27) 313732598                    Email: jerrys@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: PhD Higher Education Studies (UFS), M Com Economics (UL), B Com (Hons) Economics (UP), B Sc (Hons) Bus Admin (Unilag), PGCE (UNISA)

Biography: Benga Aderibigbe currently leads the implementation of the Online Distance Learning (ODL) initiative at the Durban University of Technology. Prior to joining the University, he has had diverse experience in both the public and private sectors as an academic, researcher and operations executive.  He also holds additional qualifications and short course certificates in Training Practices, Assessment Practices, Assessment Moderation, Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Distance and Online Learning, Open Educational Resources (OER), and Senior Management Service (SMS) cadre from reputable local and international institutions including Athabasca University in Canada, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada and National School of Government (DPSA). Benga is registered with the South African Council for Educators (SACE) as a professional educator. His research interests include Work Integrated Learning (WIL), Adult education, Open Distance Learning (ODL), eLearning and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Tel No: (+27)31 3732685                   Email: OlugbengaA@dut.ac.za

Qualifications: BA Humanities, Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Certificate in Human Resource Management

Biography: Olga Twala provides administration support and coordination of the Online Distance Learning Project Office.

Tel No: (+27)31 3736755                  Email: OlgatT@dut.ac.za