Mentoring and Developing the Next Generation of Researchers

Facilitators: Prof Jackie du Toit is co-implementer of the Department of Higher Education and Training’s national collaborative Future Professors Programme (Phase 01). She is a NRF rated scholar. Her last book on movable cultural property, Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain, was published by McGill Queen’s Press. Prof Neil Roos is co-implementer of the Department of Higher Education and Training’s national collaborative Future Professors Programme (Phase 01) and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Fort Hare. He is a member of ASSAf and NRF rated historian. Teaching and curriculum design have been particular interests of Prof Roos’s career as professional historian, along with extensive experience of early and mid-career scholarly development. Prof du Toit and Prof Roos were co-directors of the Prestige Scholars Programme (PSP), an early career development initiative, at the UFS from 2011-2019 before joining the national initiative, the FPP. A 2017 external review called the PSP “best practice” for a programme of this kind in the country. According to the review, the PSP’s experience, challenges and successes offered lessons for strategies to develop a next generation professoriate.

This workshop is funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) through the University Capacity Development Grant (UCDG)