2025 GLOBAL SaP ROUNDTABLE PART 2 PROGRAMME
Date: 2 - 3 October 2025 |
Time: 08h00 - 16h00
Venue: Cape Town Hotel School, Granger Bay Campus & Hybrid
Time Details Presenter Day 1
08h00 - 09h00
09h00 - 09h15
09h15 - 09h30
09h30 - 10h00
10h00 - 10h30
10h30 - 11h00
Arrival and Registration
Welcome (Hybrid)
Poem (Hybrid)
Opening (Hybrid)
Provocation 1 (Hybrid)
Student Responses (Hybrid)
Xena Cupido: Director Fundani Centre for Higher Education Developement CPUT
Bulela Limba
Institution: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Blessing Gumbi
Institution: University of Cape Town
Prof Rishi Balkaran: DVC Learning and Teaching CPUT
Simthandile Tyhali
Institution: University of Western the Cape Reflections on SSP
11h00 - 11h30 Tea Break
Theme: Decolonial Methodologies and Epistemic Justice
Exploring indigenous knowledge systems, decolonial frameworks, and epistemic transformation.
Chair: Xena Cupido
Time Details Presenter
11h30 - 12h00
Crafting decolonial Student-Staff partnership to enact Curriculum Transformation and Renewal framework at UWC
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Siyabulela Sabata & Logan Adams
Time Details
12h00 - 12h30
12h30 - 13h00
We Don’t Really Want to Decolonise, Do We? A Journey in Medical Education
Institution: University of Cape Town
Reimagining Research Partnerships Through Decolonial-Relational Approaches
Institution: University of Westminster
Theme: Decolonial Methodologies and Epistemic Justice
Dina-Ruth Lulua, Kananelo Sello and Tony Noveld
Kyra Araneta, Kelsea Costin, Jennifer Fraser, Fatima Maatwk, Özge Süvari and Esra Tahir
Main Room
Exploring indigenous knowledge systems, decolonial frameworks, and epistemic transformation.
Chair: Zwelibanzi Ngculu - Parallel Session 1 (Poster Presentation in-person)
11h30 - 12h00
12h00 - 12h30
12h30 - 13h00
Ubuntu and Ilima in Action
Institution: Stellenbosch University
Decolonising Community Engagement with UBUNTU
Institution: Vaal University of Technology
Reading and Thinking together as an act of Social Justice
Institution: University of Cape Town
Loots R, Dunn SBA and Tsholetsane A
Masebala Tjabane & Ally Jan Smith
Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, Bianca Tame, Yonela Mlambo, Zukiswa Zanazo and Boikhutso Maubane
Breakout Room 1
13h00 - 14h00
Title: Student-Staff Partnerships for Institutional Change Focusing on relational, participatory approaches to research, supervision, and institutional transformation.
Chair: Lukhona Leni - Parallel Sesion 2 (Oral Presentation - Hybrid)
14h00 - 14h30
14h30 - 15h00
Decolonising Research Relationships: Co-Constructing Knowledge through Student-Staff Partnerships in South African Education
Institution: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Navigating the Landscape: Dynamics of Senior Student Mentors and Academic Development Staff Members in University Programming
Institution: University of Johannesburg
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Clayton Pieters, Amy Padayachee, Samantha Kruger, Nomthandazo Buthelezi and Nonkosi Mdiza
Ms Hale Tsehlana, Mr Zweli Lukhele and Dr Vanessa Damons
Main Room
Theme: Student-Staff Partnerships for Institutional Change
Focusing on relational, participatory approaches to research, supervision, and institutional transformation.
Chair: Ashleigh Petersen-Cloete: Parallel Session 2 (Poster in person)
Time Details Presenter
14h00 - 14h20
Disrupting the Status Quo: Centring Social Justice in Partnerships
Institution: University of Limpopo
14h20 - 14h40
Student–Staff Partnership Voices: Co-creation of a First-Year Transition Programme
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Medwin Sepadi
Breakout Room 1
14h40 - 15h00
Innovating Undergraduate Mathematics
Curriculum: From Student-Focused Workshops to Students as Tutors, Designers, Writers, and Researchers in a Teaching Community of Practice
Institution: University of Cape Town
15h00 - 16h00
Designing for Social Justice Partnerships
- Voices in the Field
Institution: Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Theme: Technology, Digital Spaces, and Decolonial Design
Brittany Adams, Zoe Bok, Tina Hlanjwa and Michelle Jaftha
Ruach Slayen, Kenneth Freeman, Faith Katabwa, Johnson Mahlangu, Caleb Nyathi, Kate le Roux and James Mbewu
Asanda Ngoasheng
Using digital tools and platforms to foster equity, access, and student agency.
Chair: Tefo Mosienyane - Parallel Session 3 (Oral Presentation - Hybrid)
15h00 - 15h30
15h30 - 16h00
Heutagogical Nexus: Builiding a Digital ecosystem of Support for Staff and Students in Open Distance eLearning.
Institution: University of the Free State
Student Curriculum Partnerships (SCP): Co-Creating Inclusive and Future-Ready Cybersecurity Curricula
Institution: London Metropolitan University
Global SaP Programme Continues on the next page
Dollly Mthembu Muhammad Saeed UI Hassan Raza and Jessica Hoarau
Breakout Room 2
Main Room Main Room
Theme: Technology, Digital Spaces, and Decolonial Design
Using digital tools and platforms to foster equity, access, and student agency.
Chair: Deidre Johnson - Parallel Session 3 (Poster in person)
Time Details
15h00 - 15h30
Digital Belonging by Design: Building
Institutional Literacy with Students
Institution: University of Cape Town
15h30 - 16h00
KHANYA EBE HUB: Decolonising
Academic Advising Through Ai-Enhanced Student-Staff Partnerships in South African Engineering Education
Institution: University of Cape Town
Presenter
Luna August Athenkosi Nzala
Breakout Room 1
16h00 - 16h30
Keynote Speaker
Prof Emerita Laura Rendón, University of Texas - San Antonio
Chair: Subethra Pather
Strengthening Student-Staff Partnerships: Employing A Humanized Approach Through Validation, Belonging and Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy
Laura I. Rendón Ph.D. is a nationally-recognized student advocate, scholar and contemplative educator. Prof Emerita Laura Rendón, University of Texas - San Antonio, and she has held faculty and administrative appointments at several universities. She earned a doctorate in higher education administration at the University of Michigan.
Rendón grew up in a low-income, single-parent household along the U.S. Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. She is a teaching and learning thought leader and developed validation theory as a framework to foster student success. Rendón is the author of Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation along with eight other books and monographs and an extensive list of scholarly publications. Rendón is the 2021 recipient of the Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award issued by the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2023 Rendón received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Michigan and at San Antonio College.
Time Details
17h00 - 17h15
17h15 - 18h15
18h30
Closing of Day 1
Network Event
Dinner
End of Day 1
Presenter
Associate Professor Subethra Pather: UWC
Drumming Workshop
Room
Room
Time Details
09h00 - 09h30
09h30 - 09h40
Day 2
Opening Poem 2
Theme: In Conversation: A North and South Engagement
Chair: Lukhona Leni - Panel (Hybrid)
09h45 - 11h00
Pedagogies for Social Justice and Designing for Social Just Partnership Project
Institution: University of the Western Cape, University of Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and University of Westminster Team
Theme: Curriculum Innovation and Co-creation
Daniela Gachago
Institution: University of Cape Town
Zoe Bok
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Logan Adams
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Esai Reddy
Presenter 11h00 - 11h30
Ashleigh PetersenCloete, Zwelibanzi Ngculu, Kelsea Costin, Özge
Süvari and Yumeng Hang
Highlighting colloborative curriculum design, assessment, and student-led educational reform.
Chair: Daniela Gachago - Parallel Session 1 (Oral Presentation Hybrid)
11h30 - 12h00
12h00 - 12h30
Can Collaborative Rubric Co-creation Enhance Agency and Transformation in Nambia
Institution: Namibia University of Science and Technology
Dot4d Student Fellowship Programme: Exploring Partnership and Promoting Student Voice Through Open Education
Institution: University of Cape Town
12h30 - 13h00
A Reflective Discussion on the Contribution of Tutors and Graduates Lecturing Assistants (TA’s) Advancing Decolonisation of Student Staff Partnerships in South Africa’s Tertiary Education System.
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Katherine Carter and Johanna Botha Bianca Masuku and Nico Pampier
Enathi Paulse
Time Details Presenter
Theme: Decolonial Methodologies and Epistemic Justice
Exploring Indigeneous knowledge systems, decolonial frameworks, and epistemic transformation.
Chair: Subethra Pather - Parallel Session 1 (Oral Presentation Online)
11h30 - 12h00
12h00 - 12h30
Improving Student Belonging and Success Through Co-Created Decolonized Pedagogies and AntiRacist Practice
Institution: Leeds Trinity University
Aiming to Improve Social Inclusion in Physician Assistant Students’
Classroom Experience Through Partnership
Institution: Tufts University
12h30 - 13h00 Lunch
Theme: Community Engagement and Afrocentric Practices
Syra Shakir
Haili Dunbar and Rayner Loder
Centering Ubuntu and Afrocentric philosophies in higher education transformation.
Chair: Asanda Ngoasheng
14h00 - 14h30
14h30 - 15h00
Attempts to Remember What Was Dismembered: Student Cultural Integration through the Student Hubs of Convergence at Nelson Mandela
University
Institution: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
Decolonising Community Engagement with UBUNTU (also presented poster)
Institution: Vaal University of Technology
Carl Leshilo
15h00 - 15h30
15h30 - 16h00
16h00 - 16h30
Transforming Leadership Development: A Socially Just Approach enhanced by Student-Staff Co-Creation
Institution: University of Cape Town
Designing for Socially Just Partnership Project - Re envisioning SSPs for Global South (dreaming and reflective session)
Institution: University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape
Closing of Day 2
Masebala Tjabane and Ally Jan Smith
Christine Immenga, Naledi Mohale and Abicha Tshiamala
Esai Reddy and Ashleigh Petersen-Cloete
Subethra Pather and Sydney Adams
Thank You
End of Day 2