Associate Professor Dina Burger
Dina Burger was born in Paarl, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. She grew up in Keetmanshoop, Namibia as well as in Upington in the Northern Cape and Tshwane and Johannesburg in Gauteng and is currently based in Cape Town.
Dina studied at the University of Pretoria and currently holds a D Admin degree with the thesis title A National Policy Framework for Disaster Management with Specific Reference to HIV and AIDS in South Africa as well as a Certificate in Counter Disaster Planning and Management from the University of Cranfield in the United Kingdom. This Certificate came about as a joint scholarship from the British Council and the Disaster Centre of the University of Cranfield. Dina received her Advanced Leadership Training at the Said Business School of Oxford University.
Dina has served the public service in various capacities in the areas of human resource management, human resource development as well as work study and job evaluations.
She has 34 years of higher education experience initially as an academic and later in various leadership positions as an academic until she made a career change to research leadership and management and is the current Director of Research at CPUT. She has knowledge of initially Technikons, open distance learning, international higher education, private higher education as well as Universities of Technology. She has vast leadership and management experience in higher education and is serving on various committees and is also a Board member of the Granger Bay Hotel School of CPUT.
She has teaching experience in the areas of Public Management, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Strategic Management, Project Management, Financial Management, Local Government Management, Disaster Management, Policy Analysis, Research Methodology, Development Management and Health Management, HIV and AIDS Management, International Business and International Management.
Dina also has extensive experience in the presentation of a variety of short training and capacity development courses to the public service and private sector across many different spheres of government and the private sector in South Africa and Africa. She has also participated in several strategic assignments to ensure policy development in the areas of HIV and AIDS as well as disaster management. She has also consulted widely for government and the private sector in the organizational development field and has a successful track record in implementing change management strategies in higher education. She is a strategic and entrepreneurial minded person with a flair for new business opportunities and development and has extensive experience in fundraising and programme/project management. She has the ability to foster strategic partnerships and collaborations nationally, regionally and internationally.
In her scarce free time, she enjoys all genres of music, gardening and flyfishing.
Prof Elizabeth (Liz) Archer
Prof Liz Archer is a qualified Educational Psychologist with a PhD in Assessment and Quality Assurance. She started her career in academia as a researcher and project coordinator at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment at the University of Pretoria. From 2011-2017 Liz was employed at the University of South Africa as a Specialist in Institutional Research. Currently, she is the Director of Institutional Research at the University of the Western Cape. She was President of the Southern African Association of Institutional Research (SAAIR) from 2018-2019. Liz is a Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of the Western Cape, where she is also a member of Senate. Liz has spent 20 years in training and consulting in education and research, particularly Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis.
She is a well-published author and a rated researcher with the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) in the area of Big Data and Learning Analytics. She has authored over 20 published, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, attracting over 700 citations. She has been the recipient of many prestigious scholarships, including the South African Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD); Advanced Research Capacity Initiative; National Research Foundation and the SKYE fellowship. She is an active supervisor with multiple Doctoral and Masters students under her guidance. She an Associate Editor for the journal, Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement. Currently she is the Chief Editor for a special issue for the international journal Frontiers in Education, as well as another for Perspectives in Education. She regularly reviews articles for national and international journals including International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, South African Journal of Education, South African Journal of Higher Education, Perspectives in Education, African Journal for Research in Mathematics Science and Technology Education, Progressio and School Effectiveness and School Improvement. She has also presented conferences and guest lectures all over the world in countries such as New Zealand, Portugal, Malaysia, Canada, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mauritius, Austria, the Netherlands and Zimbabwe.
E-Mail: earcher@uwc.ac.za
Mawethu J. Nyakatya
Mawethu J. Nyakatya
Division for Social Impact, Stellenbosch University
Mr Nyakatya is Manager: Research Partnerships at the Division for Social Impact, Stellenbosch University. His position supports the university’s commitment to community engagement through Engaged Scholarship. He facilitates and maintains mutually beneficial partnerships between the university and societal partners such as government, business, and civil society.
Mawethu has a BSc and Honors degrees in Ecology from the Nelson Mandela University (Former University of Port Elizabeth) and an MSc in Sub-Antarctic Ecology from Stellenbosch University.
Mawethu has worked as a Field Researcher for the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in the sub-Antarctic Marion Island, and for the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. He then gained knowledge and experience in Research Management through completing management courses at Stellenbosch University Business School and a Research Management Internship at the Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (CIB) at Stellenbosch University where he later worked as a Projects Manager.
Mawethu is now interested in science and society projects, and in his role of Manager: Research Partnerships he is responsible for the overall promotion and support for engaged research activities at Stellenbosch University.
Sonwabo Ngcelwane
UCT representative: CHEC-WCG Joint Task Team and CHEC-CoCT Standing Committee
Sonwabo is the UCT representative on the CHEC-WCG Joint Task Team and CHEC-CoCT Standing Committee.
His portfolio is that of a Researcher Development Coordinator in the UCT Research Office.
Sonwabo is an educator by profession with Masters in Social Sciences (with distinction) from the University of Cape Town.