Prof Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo

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Professor Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo is an Associate Professor at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include theorising higher education transformation and decolonisation in the global South, student movements and re-thinking the public university beyond the neoliberal colonisation. Prof Hlatshwayo has over 32 peer-reviewed publications and over 80 national and international conference presentations, invited seminars and public lecturers. He holds a PhD in Higher Education Studies and a Masters’ degree (cum laude) in Political and International Studies from Rhodes University. Prof Hlatshwayo was the visiting scholar at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education for 2018-2019, the Jakes Gerwel Distinguished Fellow in Education, as well as the 2021-2022 Andrew W. Mellon Early Career Fellow in higher education. He served as a member of the Council on Higher Education (CHE)’s Review of Higher Education in South Africa Twenty-Five Years into Democracy (2022). He is the current grant recipient of the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ catalytic grant, focusing on “older” early career academics in South African higher education. Prof Hlatshwayo’s co-edited book, Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa , was published with Routledge in 2022. He was recently elected to be an executive member of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) for 2023-2024. Publications | ORCiD | ResearchGate | Scopus | Press/Media