Gabriele Vilyte

Gabriele Vilyte is a researcher in Mental and Public Health, Clinical Epidemiology and Higher Education.
She is a PhD candidate in Psychology and is a recipient of the National Research Foundation’s Innovation Scholarship. She holds an MA Psychology (SU), a BA Hons Psychology (SU), a BSc Hons Politics and International Relations (University of Bath, UK) and is currently working on attaining an MSc Clinical Epidemiology (SU). She conducts research in the areas of mental and public health and higher education, as well as lectures and supervises students in the Department of Psychology at Stellenbosch University. She works as a Senior Researcher for the South African Medical Research Council and has worked as a Researcher at the DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciSTIP) and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University (SU). She is the co-editor of the book "Utilisation of South African Research on Higher Education", which explores the relationship between higher education research, policy and practice. Available as an open access book (shorturl.at/wHKW3) and on Google Books (shorturl.at/dgvQ3). She has also been tutoring current and prospective doctoral supervisors on the online CREST Course for Doctoral Supervisors at African Universities for the last five years.