DRIVING THE BITDN PROJECT
Through Passion
Kubheka is passionate about people empowerment and development and aims to use her education and impact to inspire positive change in the education and the STI landscape.
uduzile Kubheka is a BSc Biotechnology graduate from the University of Pretoria and recently completed her Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology Management, majoring in Project Management. She is also a final year student for LLB at UNISA. 30 BRICS ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE • bricsastronomy.org • June 2022
Kubheka was previously employed at the NRFSAASTA in the capacity of Project Administrator for the EU Commission RRING 2020 project. Prior to that she was a participant in the DSISAASTA National Youth Service Program where she was first introduced to the organisation as a volunteer.
She worked as a researcher and administrator and played a key role in the running of the Horizon Europe and EU Funded RRING H2020 Project for the National Research Foundation (NRF), based at the SAASTA business unit. This project was aimed at promoting Responsible Research and Innovation whilst addressing key global sustainability and social justice issues, e.g.,
