Awards, Fellowships and achievements
2023
CPUT Faculty of Informatics and Design 2023 Faculty Awards
Winner of a faculty research Award
Winner of a faculty teaching award
Winner of a faculty community engagement award
Winner of a faculty academic leadership award
Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sports: 2023 Cultural Affairs awards
Best Researcher Contributing to Archival Heritage
Higher Education Resource Service South Africa (HERS-SA)
Emerging Young Woman Leader in Higher Education
2023 National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Best Digital Humanities Visualisation or Infographic
CPUT-The Conversation Africa
Science Communication Award
Science Communication Award for the most published articles by a CPUT academic in The Conversation Africa for 2022
2022
FID 2022 Faculty Awards
Winner of a faculty research Award
Winner of a faculty teaching award
Winner of a faculty community engagement award
Michael Haley Travel Grant : International Communication Association
Open Education Resource Champion: South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Black women academics: Mentorship programme - Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Selected to participate in the Summer Institute for Computational and Social Sciences
Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) Non resident Junior fellow
2021
Awarded the Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Faculty of Informatics and Design Teaching Excellence Award
Selected to participate in the 2021 National Communication Association Doctoral Honours Academy
Awarded the National Communication Association Student Caucus Travel Grant (R6000)
Awarded funding by the National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Black Academic's Advancement Programme (BAAP) (approx R200 000)
Awarded an unstipulated amount through the Early Career Conference Grant by the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Awarded an unstipulated amount by CODATA-RDA to participate in a summer school on Data Science through the University of Pretoria
2020
Awarded funding by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Improvement of Qualification's Programme (approx R200 000)
Awarded funding by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) through a competitive process (approx R50 000)
Awarded funding by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) Humanities through a competitive process (R30 000)
Awarded an unstipulated amount by MEDCOM to attend the 6th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication
2019
Awarded funding by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) through a competitive process (approx R50 000)
Awarded funding by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) Humanities through a competitive process (R25 000)
2018
Awarded ConfCom Funding by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology to present research. (value unknown)