Learning Outcomes and Human Development
Visiting Speaker: Dr. Melanie Walker, Chair in Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme at the University of the Free State, South Africa
August 2020 (details TBA)
Professor Melanie Walker is the Chair in Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Professor Walker's expertise involves building higher education curricula that enables human development informed through a 'capabilities' approach to education of 'public-good professionals'. Before joining the University of the Free State, Professor Walker was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham in the UK where she was Director of the PhD in Higher Education, Director of Postgraduate Students, and a Director of Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She retains her link to Nottingham as an Honorary Professor.
Professor Walker is also Vice-President of the Human Development and Capability Association (2014-2017) and a fellow of ASSAF. She has delivered numerous international keynotes and seminars, written more than 140 book chapters and refereed journal articles, and authored or edited 13 books, including two highly regarded volumes on doctoral education
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