Position: Educational Technologist (Junior Lecturer)

Email: bwalyal@dut.ac.za

Tel: 031 373 5721

QUALIFICATIONS

• Short Course in Web-based Learning and Teaching: Durban University of Technology, 2011
• Faculty Certificate in Online Teaching (FCOT): Manipal University, 2015
• National Diploma: Photography, Durban University of Technology, 2008
• Bachelor of Fashion: Fashion Design, Durban Institute of Technology, 2005
• National Diploma: Fashion Design, Durban Institute of Technology, 2003

BIOGRAPHY

Bwalya Lungu has been an educational technologist at the University’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching since 2010. She provides eLearning academic support to the faculties of Management Sciences, Arts and Design, Health Sciences, General Education (Cornerstone) and the Writing Centre. Bwalya is interested in innovative uses of digital technologies in teaching and learning in higher education. She leads a webinar series in the use of interactive media platforms for enhancing student engagement, exploring Tiktok, Spotify for podcasting and YouTube for vodcasting. She has a keen research interest in decolonial studies and coordinates a project on epistemic decolonisation. She is registered for a Master’s (Fine Arts) with expected completion in 2024.

PUBLICATIONS

• Goes, V, Lungu, B and Maseko, M. 2023. “Exploring Autoethnographic and Arts-Based Approaches to Planetary Health: Honoring Diversity through Creativity, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Loving Relationships” Challenges 14, no. 4: 53. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/challe14040053
• Cooke, L.A., Lungu, B. and Samuels, L. 2019. “Virtual Engagement: A Nexus Between Internationalisation and Decolonisation of the Curriculum in the PEESA111Project?”, Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, Sciendo, Vol. 1(1), pp 35-43. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341645593_Virtual_Engagement_A_Nexus_Between_Internationalisation_and_Decolonisation_of_the_Curriculum_in_the_PEESA_III_Project

• Mheta, G., Lungu, B.N. and Govender, T. 2 018. Decolonising of the curriculum: A case study of the Durban University of Technology in South Africa. South African Journal of Education, 38(4). Nov. 2018.pp1-7. Available from: http://dx.dol.org/10.15700/saje.v38n4a1635

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