Research Projects
2025 - Present
Research Project
Effects of generative artificial intelligence information platforms on teacher education: Promoting socially responsive curricula in times of change
2024 - 2026
UCDG Project
Strengthening the Centre for Higher Education Professional Development (CHEPD)
Publications
Prof Shan Simmonds
Director: CHEPD
Recent Publications
- 2024. Challenging dominant education paradigms: posthuman feminist inspirations towards alternate pathways for decolonizing the curriculum. Curriculum Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41297-024-00264-9.
- 2023. Continuing professional development in a neoliberal higher education context. In: Chitanand, N. & Rathilal, S. (eds). Academic staff development: Disruptions, complexities, and change (Envisioning new futures). Cape Town: SUNMedia. p. 67-87 (co-authors: S Simmonds, S Blignaut, P Du Preez, L Le Grange, M Maistry, L Ramrathan and C Reddy). ISBN 978-1-991260-34-5 https://doi.org/10.52779/9781991260352.
- 2022. Sustainability and higher education: Towards an affirmative ethics. Perspectives in Education. L Le Grange, S Simmonds, M Maistry, and Du Preez. 40(3): 118-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v40.i3.8.
Dr Mthobisi Ndaba
Lecturer
Recent Publications
- Ndaba, M (2024). Interrogating the Academy: Higher Education Transformation for the Public Good beyond Diversity in Race and Gender. Africa Education Review, 20 (3), 40-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2024.2386950.
- Namakula, H., & Ndaba, M. (2024). “Leaving No One Behind: Leveraging Support to Promote Access with Success in Post-Graduate Studies”. South African Journal of Higher
Education 38 (1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.20853/38-1-6248. - Ndaba, M. 2023. “When Fees Fall: Conceptualizing Higher Education As a Public Good”.
South African Journal of Higher Education 37 (6), 8-23. https://doi.org/10.20853/37-6-5969.
Dr Rhea Koch
Lecturer
Recent Publications
- Koch, R. and Heymans, Y., 2026. Peer evaluation in interprofessional group work to foster experiential learning: Perceptions of undergraduate health sciences students. In: J. Pool, A. Lubbe and Y. Heymans, eds. Reimagining Health Professions Education: Innovations and Insights for the 21st Century and Beyond. Health Professions Education Book Series, Vol. 1. Axiom Academic Publishers. Available at: https://doi.org/10.62869/001c.162832.
- Koch, R., Pool, J., & Heymans, Y. (2025). Decolonisation of Health Sciences curricula as a vehicle for transformation in Higher Education: A scoping review. South African Journal of Higher Education, 39(1), 163–193. https://doi.org/10.20853/39-1-6109.
- Koch, R., J. Pool, and Heymans, Y. (2024). The Nature of Decolonisation in Health Sciences Curricula: A Scoping Review. South African Journal of Higher Education 38 (4), 81-106. https://doi.org/10.20853/38-4-5893.