Dr. Kirstin Wilmot

Overview

Dr. Kirstin Wilmot is a Senior Lecturer in the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Kirstin combines her background and love of linguistics with higher education studies in her work on academic literacies and knowledge-building. Her current research focuses on doctoral education, with a particular interest in developing theoretical tools for analysing and understanding disciplinary knowledge-building practices, particularly through the practice of doctoral writing and the supervision of doctoral research. Kirstin’s work has a strong social justice agenda in that it seeks to make explicit the often-tacit disciplinary literacy practices that act as gatekeepers to becoming members of a discipline. Kirstin holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, an MPhil in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in Sociolinguistics from the University of Cape Town. She is an NRF Y1 rated researcher. Publications | ORCID | Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn | Scopus