FACULTY SENIOR ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, School of Physiology

Dr Antonia Wadley

Dr Wadley been a senior lecturer with the University since 2019.

Dr Wadley has published 29 papers to date of which 13 were published in the last 5 years, she has graduated 6 Masters and 3 PhD students, has a Y NRF rating and a Scopus h-index of 12. She has served as an external examiner, reviews manuscript submissions to many prestigious international journals, reviews funding applications for the NRF, presented at local and international conferences, and has demonstrated granstmanship. She has both national and international collaborators with whom she publishing and contributing to the global research agenda of pain in HIV.

Dr Wadley has managed the “Carnegie Diversifying the Academy Programme” run by the Transformation and Employment Equity Office. This role is a new one and has been created to address recommendations provided in a recent report of the Programme including providing better support, programming, and coaching to the recipients. Additionally, as part of the CDTA programme project management, it was identified that academics at the mid-career stage need greater support and particularly academics from disadvantaged groups. Dr Wadley has thus, created a collaboration with the Research Office and the Centre for Teaching and Learning Development and together established the follow-on from the “Early Career Academic Development Programme”, the” Enhancing Mid-Career Academic Transitions Programme”. The pilot with both CDTA recipients and staff from the wider university, is now running, through her administration, and co-facilitation of the course.

Dr Wadley has been coaching academic staff and postgraduate students for the Faculty and the wider university. Following her initial coaching course through the Faculty, she has completed 18 months of professional training, and successfully registered and credentialed with the International Coaching Federation, and in the last four years, Dr Wadley has recorded over 200 hours of coaching for the university. She mentors the Postgraduate student cohort, and has one-on-one sessions with the students during which she guides them in time management, lifestyle management, coaches in student-supervisor relationships and monitors Postgraduate student progress. Despite difficulties that the COVID pandemic enforced upon all, the school continued to enjoy outstanding Postgraduate completion rate, and Dr Wadley’s contribution to this achievement has been immense.

We congratulate Dr Wadley on her promotion to Associate Professor