Dr Glenda Cox: Principal Investigator & UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice
Glenda is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town. Her portfolio includes curriculum projects, 'teaching with technology' innovation grants, open educational resources and staff development. She holds the UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice (2021–2024). She has an NRF 'C' rating and is recognised as being an established researcher in the field of open education. She is passionate about the role of open education in the changing world of higher education. Her current research includes analysing the role of open textbooks for social justice.
Bianca Masuku: Junior Research Fellow
Bianca is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UCT. Her research background and varied research experiences fuel her more recent interests in open education, open educational resources, and open textbooks and social justice with a keen interest in the inclusion and recognition of student voices. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Psychology and a Master's in Social Anthropology from the University of Witwatersrand. Her work has revolved around gender, sexuality, youth and health, with a great interest in what how young people experience, interrogate and contribute to the worlds around them. Her doctoral work explores understandings of TB in the township of Khayelitsha through a youth-based community engagement project that brings art, youth education, visual media, and TB science into an interactive and dynamic dialogue driven by the perspectives of young people.