Ms Vinolia Makgoadibane

Overview

Vinolia is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Strategic Communication. She has worked in both industry and academia. Her academic accolades include being a member of the Golden Key Honour Society as well as being recognized as a top achiever at Honours level at the University of Johannesburg. In her previous role she worked as a Communication and Research Assistant at UJ’s DSI/NRF Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, 4IR & Sustainable Development in the College of Business and Economics. Vinolia is a member of the Golden Key Honour Society and has worked as a tutor and research assistant at the Department of Strategic Communication. She holds a Masters in Corporate Communication (with distinction) from UJ, a BA Honours in Strategic Communication from UJ, and a BA in Communication from the North-West University. Research Interests: Digital Transformation, the 4IR, Transformative Innovation and the impact of these on societies. Achievements: (if relevant) 2017 Golden Key Honour Society 2020 Achievement in the Bachelor Honours Degree Conference participation (in the last 5 years): Paper delivered at the 2023 Annual SACOMM conference, FADA, held on 27 to 29 September 2023 entitled ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the facilitation of dialogic OSRs: A Metamodern Approach’ with Prof Corné Meintjes.