The FHS Writing Lab is an active research space. Our scholarship sits at the intersection of academic literacies, writing identity, multimodal pedagogy, and health sciences education and directly informs how we work with writers every day.

A record of our conference presence from local higher education forums to international academic literacies scholarship   Conferences

Writing as a tool for equity, explore our social responsiveness initiatives and community engagements   Social Responsiveness

List of Publications according to our Research Interests

Academic literacies & postgraduate writing 

  1. Muna, N. 2022. Exploring the interplay between confidence, authenticity, and risk through professional learning. In, Critical Reflections on Professional Learning; Context, choice and change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Govender, R. and Jacobs, A., Eds. HELTASA Press.

  2. Samson, S., Hutchings. C., Goolam Hoosen, T., Thesen, L.K. 2021. I am everywhere all at once’: pipelines, rhizomes
    and research writing. Higher Education, 83: 1207-1223.

Multimodal pedagogy & biomedical visualisation 

  1. Muna, N. 2022. A multimodal social semiotics perspective on teaching and learning using biomedical visualisations.  In Biomedical Visualisation, vol. 13. Rea, P. and Shapiro, L., Eds. Springer.

  2. Gabriels, S. Muna, N. & Le Roux, K. 2022. The affordances of visual modes in pedagogy on the physics of motion in physiotherapy.  In, Biomedical Visualisation, vol. 13. Rea, P. and Shapiro, L., Eds. Springer.

  3. Muna, N., Paxton, M., Frith, V., Van der Merwe, M. 2020. Unpacking the multimodal discourse demands of microscopy in a bioscience laboratory. International Journal of Science Education, 42 (16): 2742-2764. 

  4. Paxton, M., Frith, V., Kelly-Laubscher RF., Muna, N., van der Merwe, M. 2017. Supporting the teaching of the visual literacies in the earth and life sciences in higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 36 (6): 1264-1279.

  5. Kelly-Laubscher, R.F., Muna, N., van der Merwe, M. 2017. Using the research article as a model for teaching laboratory report writing provides opportunities for development of genre awareness and adoption of new literacy practices. English for Specific Purposes, 48: 1-16. 

Professional learning & writing centre practice 

  1. Daniels, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Jayakumar, J. and Behari-Leak, K., 2024. South African new academics’ experiences of precarity: Becoming and unbecoming the condition of coloniality through collective reflexivity. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 12(1): 40-62.

  2. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Mthembu, N., & Samuels, V. 2023. Reimagining writing centre consultant training: Establishing a conceptual, reflective and values-based approach to support transformative learning. In Reimagining Writing Centres: A South African Perspective. Ramabritch, A., & Drennan, L. Eds. ESI Press. 

  3. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Moxley, K., Van Pletzen, E. 2019. Establishing a Health Sciences writing centre in the changing landscape of South African Higher Education. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 7 (1): 19-41.

Disciplinary literacies

  1. Ramorola, B., Goolam Hoosen, T., Alves De Souza Rios, L., Mowla, S. 2019. Modulation of Cellular MicroRNA by HIV-1 in Burkitt Lymphoma Cells—A Pathway to Promoting Oncogenesis. Genes, 12: 1-15.

  2. Mapekula, L., Ramorola, B., Goolam Hoosen, T., Mowla, S. 2019. The interplay between viruses & host microRNAs in cancer – An emerging role for HIV in oncogenesis. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, 137: 108-114.

  3. Muna, N., O'Ryan, C. 2016. Isolation and characterization of the first microsatellite markers for the southern harvester termite, Microhodotermes viator. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 106 (4): 488-493.

  4. Roberts, L.J., Hardie, S., Goolam Hoosen, T., Ramesar, R., Greenberg, L.J. 2013. The value of genetic testing for inherited retinal disease caused by mutations in the ABCA4 gene in South Africans. South African Medicine Journal, 103 (10): 702-703.

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