Ntsiki Mapukata
Ntsiki qualified as a cytotechnologist in 1989 and worked in the State Pathology Laboratory in Umtata until February 1998. Since then, she has been working in higher education institutions at DUT (December 2004); Wits Division of Rural Health (December 2016); Wits: Office of Student Support (March 2019).
As a convenor of the BP/BHP course, she hopes to continue to explore her broader research interests on health sciences students’ engagement with the education system. Currently registered for a PhD in Public Health, her study explores the influence of habitus on professionalization of health sciences students of rural origin. Ntsiki is a co-investigator on a Wits based project that seeks to understand the transition, university experiences and success factors of students from less privileged communities.