Dr Amanda Hlengwa
Mandy is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University. She has worked in the field of higher education as an academic developer for more than a decade. She sees her contribution to the field of higher education studies emerging primarily from two areas. Curriculum development concerns, with particular focus on the relationship between disciplinary knowledge and teaching and learning. The second contribution is linked to her role as Rhodes University’s co-ordinator of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) funded New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP). Both interests are underpinned by her commitment to the transformation agenda of higher education.
Dr Janja Komljenovic
Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research and co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University. Her research interests broadly concern higher education policy and governance, the political economy of higher education and the digital economy. She is currently researching the diversity and complexity of markets in and around universities, including the variety of actors that have entered the sector, their strategies, ways of working, and consequences for higher education and societies at large. She is also interested in the platform capitalism and phenomena like digitalisation, datafication and platformization of universities.
Professor Bruce Macfarlane
Bruce Macfarlane is Chair Professor of Educational Leadership and Equity and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development at The Education University of Hong Kong. Bruce’s publications have developed concepts related to academic freedom, the ethics of academic practice, and intellectual leadership. His monographs include Freedom to Learn (2016), Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education (2012), Researching with Integrity (2009), The Academic Citizen (2007) and Teaching with Integrity (2004).
Professor Alison Phipps
Alison holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow where she is also Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, and Co-Convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network. Alison has twenty years of research experience in using creative and intercultural methodologies, including participant observation in multilingual communities, work across mobilities (international students, modern linguists, tourists, migrant, refugee communities, international NGOs) and overseas. She has undertaken research and work in Palestine, Sudan, Ghana, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, USA, Portugal. She has produced and director theatre and performance in Germany, UK, Jamaica, Ethiopia and Ghana, and worked as creative liturgist with the World Council of Churches from 2008-2011 for the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation. She is regularly advises public, governmental and third sector bodies on migration and language policy. From 1999 – 2004 She was Chair of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC)