{"id":441,"date":"2012-10-08T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/?p=441"},"modified":"2012-09-26T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T05:50:04","slug":"making-a-life-nokwanda-makunda-and-her-roles-in-teaching-researching-and-community-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/2012\/10\/08\/making-a-life-nokwanda-makunda-and-her-roles-in-teaching-researching-and-community-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Making a life\u2019: Nokwanda Makunda and her Roles in teaching, Researching and Community Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_443\" style=\"width: 141px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/files\/2012\/08\/nokwanda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443\" class=\" wp-image-443  \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/files\/2012\/08\/nokwanda-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Nokwanda Makunda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAll the research projects that I have ever been involved with have always been applied. It\u2019s always been important to me to be able to do projects that are linked to industry or society because if I thought about changing careers I needed to be able to fit in into another environment \u2013 that\u2019s the only way I could see myself being relevant. But I also wanted to do something that would be good, to give something back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this brief <strong>Dr Nokwanda Makunda of the Department of Botany and Zoology\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0is interviewed by Dr Catherine Kell, a researcher commissioned by the CTL. Download the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/files\/2012\/09\/Nokwanda-Makunga-Teaching-Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is the third brief in the Centre for Teaching and Learning (or CTL\u2019s) \u2018Making a life\u2019 series, where we explore the attitudes and experiences of academics at SU, with regard to their roles in teaching, research and what is generally called \u2018community involvement\u2019. The series was approached as a set of interviews with individual academics, which took the form of reflective conversations between a CTL researcher and the individual academic. Academics approached for the interviews were not sampled, but drawn from different departments and different disciplines, and tended to be those who had had some involvement with CTL. At times we have incorporated other texts into the brief, to enrich the sense of the activities academics engage in, in \u2018making a life\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-441 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='441' data-nonce='816e348059' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-441 lc'>+15<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-441 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='441' data-nonce='816e348059' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-441 unlc'>-10<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-441 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll the research projects that I have ever been involved with have always been applied. It\u2019s always been important to me to be able to do projects that are linked to industry or society because if I thought about changing careers I needed to be able to fit in into another environment \u2013 that\u2019s the <a href='https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/2012\/10\/08\/making-a-life-nokwanda-makunda-and-her-roles-in-teaching-researching-and-community-involvement\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12946,29683,22732,1203],"tags":[29699,29689,29697,29698],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies","category-ctl-specific","category-interview","category-lecturers","tag-botony","tag-making-a-life","tag-nokwanda-makunda","tag-zoology","category-12946-id","category-29683-id","category-22732-id","category-1203-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}