Conferences | Faculty of Health Sciences Writing Lab

A record of our conference presence: presentations, keynotes and workshops, from local higher education forums to international scholarship.

Southern African Association of Health Educationalists, 30 June – 3 July. Goolam Hoosen, T., Hutchings, C., Muna, N. Oral Presentation: Supportive supervision strategies for developing postgraduate research writing.
Southern African Association of Health Educationalists, 30 June – 3 July. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Sims, D.A., Cilliers, F.C. Oral Presentation: Papers with Purpose: widening access and enhancing equity through research writing.

Celebrating Health Sciences Education Conference, 11 September 2025. Muna, N. Oral Presentation: Cultivating an academic literacies curriculum for the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences undergraduate programmes.
UCT Teaching and Learning Conference, 18 – 19 November. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Kehinde, C., Kubheka, T., Makaka, J. & Greyling, L. Oral Presentation: Scales of success: Exploring the challenges of defining and evaluating student success in a writing centre.

UCT Teaching and Learning Conference, 20 – 21 November. Muna, N., Hannington, M., Hendricks, A., Kubheka, T., Goolam Hoosen, T. and Kehinde, C. Conference Workshop: All Teachers are Language Teachers.
Celebrating Health Sciences Education Conference, 3 September. Muna, N. and Goolam Hoosen, T. Oral Presentation: Undergraduate medical students' perspectives of the role of reading in academic writer development.
Southern African Association of Health Educationalists, 26 – 28 June. Muna, N. and Goolam Hoosen, T. Oral Presentation: Developing Academic Writers in the Health Sciences.
Southern African Association of Health Educationalists. Goolam Hoosen, T., Hutchings, C., Muna, N. Oral Presentation: Factors enabling postgraduate writer development: a case study at the University of Cape Town.

UCT Teaching and Learning Conference, 21 – 22 November. Muna, N. and Goolam Hoosen, T. Oral Presentation: Enabling Academic Writer Development through Assessment Practices.
Celebrating Health Sciences Education Conference, 21 September. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Mthembu, N. and Samuels, V. Oral Presentation: Reimagining Writing Centre Consultant Training.
Celebrating Health Sciences Education Conference. Goolam Hoosen, T., Hutchings, C., Muna, N. Oral Presentation: Supportive supervision strategies for enabling postgraduate students' authorial voice development in the Biomedical Sciences.
Celebrating Health Sciences Education Conference. Le Roux, K. & Goolam Hoosen, T. Oral Presentation: Towards Finalising Postgraduate Research Writing: Strengthening Voice and Consistent Participation in a Writing Community.
XXVIII International Symposium on Morphological Sciences, 5 – 8 August. Muna, N. Keynote Presentation: A theoretical framework and pedagogical analysis of visual language within the health sciences.

National Writing Centres Indaba. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Nwosu, E., Mthembu, N., Ngcobo, S. & Mkwanzie, N. Oral presentation: Developing a conceptual approach for writing centre consultations: Supporting students authorial identity development.
Celebrating Health Science Education Conference. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Nwosu, E., Mthembu, N., Ngcobo, S. & Mkwanzie, N. Oral presentation: Developing a conceptual approach for writing centre consultations: Supporting students authorial identity development.

National Writing Centre Indaba, 18 September. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T. Oral presentation: The Health Sciences Writing Lab: using monitoring and evaluation to enhance practice.
National Writing Centre Indaba. Goolam Hoosen, T. On becoming a cultural informant in a decolonial era – a consultant's journey.
UCT Teaching & Learning Conference, 17 July. Goolam Hoosen, T. Beyond the assessment: Developing socially just learners through academic literacy practices in the Health Sciences.
UCT Teaching & Learning Conference. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Moxley, K. & van Pletzen, E. Oral Presentation: The Health Sciences Writing Lab: using an integrated approach to enable language development.
Primary Healthcare @ 40 Lecture Series. Muna, N. and Weiss, R. Oral presentation: The Patient Partner Programme.
Celebrating Health Science Education Conference. Muna, N. Oral presentation: A novel approach to Patient Partner recruitment and training.

8th International Conference on Multimodality. Muna, N., Paxton, M., Frith, V. & van der Merwe, M. Oral Presentation: Making tacit practices explicit for the acquisition of disciplinary discourse within the sciences.
Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa Conference. Muna, N., Paxton, M., Frith, V. & van der Merwe, M. Oral Presentation: Making tacit practices explicit for the acquisition of disciplinary discourse within the sciences.
Celebrating Health Sciences Education Conference. Goolam Hoosen, T., Karjiker, M., Pienaar, L., Badenhorst, E. & Abrahams, S. Oral Presentation: Transformative teaching and learning opportunities: A collaborative initiative between the Residence Sector and the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa Conference (HELTASA). Muna, N. Oral Presentation: The novel application of a dendrogram tool, to practically facilitate the literature review writing process.
UCT Teaching & Learning Conference. Muna, N. Oral presentation: An (un)Predictable Destination.
UCT Teaching & Learning Conference. Muna, N., Goolam Hoosen, T., Moxley, K. & Leonard, J. Poster Presentation: The Faculty of Health Science Writing Lab.

UCT Teaching & Learning Conference. Paxton, M., Frith, V., Kelly-Laubscher, R., Muna, N. & van der Merwe, M. Oral Presentation: Mapping the literacies in the Earth & Life Sciences at UCT.

Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa Conference (HELTASA). Govender, S. & Muna, N. Oral Presentation: The changing face of academia: Identity in science writing over the last decade.