Prof Cecilia Jacobs - HELTASA 2019 Keynote address
Channel: Nicola Pallitt
Date: 2019-12-02

Cecilia Jacobs has worked in Higher Education for the past 29 years. She is currently an Associate Professor in Higher Education at the Centre for Health Professions Education at the University of Stellenbosch. Prior to that she was the director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Stellenbosch.

Her field of expertise is Higher Education Studies, and she has worked predominantly in the area of the professionalisation of academics for their teaching role. Her work has been of a transdisciplinary nature and she has always conducted research at the intersection of her field and other disciplines, such as Engineering, and currently Health Sciences. Her research interests are in disciplinary literacies and how disciplinary knowledge is communicated through discipline-specific language. This was the focus of her doctoral research, and ensuing publications focused on the teaching of disciplinary literacies within disciplinary domains and its implications for academic developers and disciplinary specialists in higher education. Current research focuses on the question of knowledge and the importance of its centrality in debates on higher education teaching and learning.