My interest and passion is in Human capacity development, a necessary condition for responding to the expectations of the National Development Plan (Vision 2030) and our nation’s ambition of being a knowledge driven economy. 

My previous position as Director at the National Research Foundation required strategic and analytical thinking for purposes of facilitating and encouraging research participation across the National System of Innovation, analysing research granting trends and execution of necessary interventions.

My current position as the Director of Research Management at the Nelson Mandela University is aimed at supporting established researchers, and other strategic interventions to unlock the research potential in our institution, in service of society.

I qualified with a PhD in Zoology 15 years ago, with a specialization in small mammal physiology.   My interests are the interface between animal form and function and how these enable or constrain animals in their ability to deal with environmental challenges as well as how physiologies allow animals to persist from one generation to the next, over millennial timescales.