Sibonokuhle Ndlovu is a post-doctoral fellow at Ali Mazrui Centre for higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg. Her research interests are in disability in higher learning, Inclusive Education and inclusion in higher learning. She also has interest in transformation in higher learning, teaching and learning of disadvantaged learners in disadvantaged rural contexts. She completed her PhD at Wits School of Education in 2017. She has been a research intern at the University of Kwazulu Natal, researching for the national project, Education and Emancipation. Her current research interests are in social, cultural and educational perspectives about disability in the Global South.
Phefumula Nyoni is an anthropologist and sociologist lecturer and researcher. He has been actively involved in curriculum design, implementation and programme quality assurance. He completed his PhD on Economic Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are multidisciplinary and include education transformation, quality assurance and curriculum design in tertiary institutions, particularly from a culture-centric perspective, reconfiguration of urban spaces, access to socio-economic amenities for marginalized communities, poverty alleviation and human rights, community development, urban artisanal mining, gender and entrepreneurship. Phefumula Nyoni is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg. Prior to joining the Centre, he has been a lecturer at various South African universities as well as a research and policy consultant with several organizations. His recent Chapter publications include; "Pedagogy and Agency in Postgraduate Student Supervision in a Rural South African University".