27th Annual Conference
26-29 August 2025
Protea Hotel Stellenbosch & Conference Centre

Bridging Borders, Inspiring Solutions:
Internationalisation for a Resilient and Inclusive Future

Speakers

Fiona Erispe

Fiona has worked in Higher Education since 2010 at UCT Graduate School of Business as Career Services Coordinator assisting international students who wanted to remain in South Africa with visa matters. She later joined the UCT International Office in 2019 and currently is the Visa and Immigration Liaison Coordinator.

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Bianca Rochelle Parry

Dr Bianca Rochelle Parry has been a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of South Africa since 2016. Currently, she is conducting research as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, for which she was awarded a research grant from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Itumeleng Masisi

Ms Itumeleng Masisi is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Africa. Her research interests include the experiences of motherhood, adverse childhood experiences and intergenerational trauma. Her interests also include aspects of education and teaching and learning. Ms Masisi is currently working on her thesis regarding adverse

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Janice K Moodley

Janice Moodley (PhD) is a psychological practitioner and senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Africa. Her research is critically orientated and challenges the discursive interactions between psychology, health, gender, racial inequalities and politics within the global South.

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Fazela Haniff

Fazela Haniff immigrated to Canada in 1974 from Guyana, lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for three years, then relocaated to South Africa from 1994 to 2012 and returned to Canada in 2012. Her heading up the Urban Alliance on Race relations in 1990 afforded Fazela the skills and insight to champion Diversity and Inclusion throughout

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Thuto Chonco

Thuto Chonco (He/Him) is a Projects Assistant for the International Education and Partnerships Directorate, at the Durban University Technology. He obtained his Diploma in Business Administration and BTech in Management from DUT, and currently pursuing Honours in Business Analysis at Rhodes University.

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Philiswa Mncube

A qualified Language Practitioner and Master of Arts candidate in African Languages and Culture. My research is on the promotion of isiZulu as the local indigenous Language of two Selected Universities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa at the University of Zululand.

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Susan Sutton

Susan Buck Sutton brings 40 years as faculty member and administrator to her work on global learning and engagement in higher education. Recently retired as Senior Advisor for International Initiatives at Bryn Mawr College, Sutton is also Emerita Associate Vice President of International Affairs and Emerita Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She is

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Mats’olo Seloanyane

Mats’olo Seloanyane is an ambitious Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. candidate from the University of the Witwatersrand in her second year of study. From a very young age, she has always devoted herself to her studies, making sure she excelled in her academic work. Mats’olo holds a Masters’ degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering, specializing

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