Talita M.L. Calitz

Dr Talita Calitz is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies, where she is involved in a number of funded research projects related to equality, human development and social justice in higher education. She worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, and taught academic literacy at the University of the Free State’s Centre for Teaching and Learning. Talita received a full-time Doctoral Scholarship at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development in 2013, and completed her PhD in Higher Education Studies in 2015. The focus of her doctoral research was on the experiences of socio-economically vulnerable undergraduate students.