Her research interests include ethnic minority communities, immigrant women, social identity, teacher education, and the education system in South Africa. Her first book, entitled Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa, 1990-94, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2006. She also has an edited book of essays, entitled New Directions in African Education, forthcoming with the University of Calgary Press. In addition to her research contributions, Dr. Dlamini is an Advisory Board member of the New Scholars Fund: Congress of Social Sciences in Education (CSSE) and a Committee Member of The Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC).