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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape

Sisanda Nkoala is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape. She is the winner of the 2023 NIHSS Digital Humanities: Best Visualisation or Infographic award, the recipient of the 2023 Western Cape Cultural Affairs Award for Best Researcher Contributing to Archival Heritage and the 2023 HERS-SA Young Women Leader in Higher Education winner for 2023.

She holds a PhD in rhetoric studies at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Rhetoric Studies. She researches rhetoric and South African media ecologies. She also publishes on multilingualism in higher education and journalism studies.

She serves as the vice-chair of the IAMCR’s media education research section, the African Journalism Educators Network secretary-general, and an associate editor for the Journal of Communication Technology. She is also a public representative on the South African Press Council, a member of the Film & Publication Board’s Appeals Tribunal and a former board trustee of Brand South Africa. She is also the vice-president of the South African Communication Association.

Before joining academia, she was a radio journalist and was the 2015 recipient of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year: Western Cape Radio Features category.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Associate professor, University of the Western cape
  • 2023–2023
    Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa
  • 2022–2023
    Senior Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Education

  • 2022 
    University of Cape Town, PhD: Rhetoric Studies
  • 2015 
    University of Cape Town, MPhil: Rhetoric Studies
  • 2012 
    University of Cape Town, BA Hons: Political Communication
  • 2011 
    University of Cape Town, BA Film & Media Production

Grants and Contracts

  • 2024
    NRF Thuthuka
    Role:
    Primary Researcher
    Funding Source:
    National Research Foundation

Honours

2023 NIHSS Digital Humanties: Best visualisation or infographic winner, 2023 Western Cape Cultural Affairs Award for Best Researcher Contributing to Archival Heritage, 2023 HERS-SA Young Women Leader in Higher Education winner, 2022 SADILAR Open Education Resource Champion, 2015 Vodacom Journalist of the Year - Western Cape Radio Features