PhD projects

  • Patient-centred communication and patient education: a multimodal social semiotic approach. Weiss, R. 2017.
  • Factors influencing lecturer assessment practice in diverse southern contexts. Sims, D. 2020.
  • A social realist study of the mechanisms that condition lecturers’ emerging assessment practices. Pienaar, L. 2022.
  • The role of medical simulation curriculum in developing acute care clinical competence in undergraduate medical students in South Africa. Jansen, M. 2022.
  • Understanding leadership development within new medical schools in Africa. Wessels, Q. 2022.
  • Optimizing learning & teaching on paediatric ward rounds. Mantzor, S. 2023.
  • Re-imagining doctor patient relationships in an African context: a transformative educational perspective. Ras, T. 2023.
  • Proposing clinician competency guidelines for the inclusion of disability in the undergraduate medical curriculum of South Africa - an exploratory study. Whitehead, S. 2023.
  • How can the process of professional identity formation of a gender-affirming practitioner inform medical curriculum change? de Vries, E. 2024.
  • “There is a human being there”: A Critical Pedagogic Approach to Shift Perceptions. Jacobson, S. 2025.

MPhil Projects

  • Exploring students’ conceptions of the racial and socio-cultural diversity in the learning environment of a medical specialty. Wamono, A. 2018.
  • Competencies needed to prepare intermediate life support (ils) paramedics in Gauteng to manage traumatic stress in the work environment. Zana, T. 2019.
  • Exploring first year health sciences students’ perceptions and experiences of teamwork: an introduction to interprofessional education. Hendricks, A. 2020.
  • Clinical education in physiotherapy: The experiences of final year students workplace-based learning at the University of Cape Town. Timothy, N. 2022.
  • Exploring the development of the effective communication graduate attribute in the clinical technology programme at the Durban University of Technology: student, graduate, and educator perceptions and experiences. Prakaschandra, D. 2025.
  • Curriculum renewal in Acute Care: A South African based study for returning Cuban-trained students. Khan, W. 2025.