Dr Otilia Chiramba

Dip Ed (UZ), B.ED (MSU), B.Ed Honours(Wits), M. Ed(Wits), PhD (Wits)

Position: Lecturer

Email: otilia.chiramba@ru.ac.za

Tel: 733810580

Biography

Otilia Chiramba is a lecturer in the Division of Secondary and Post-School Education at Rhodes University, specialising in Educational Leadership and Management. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership, Management, and Policy Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work at Rhodes includes teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervising postgraduate research, community engagement, academic administration, and research. Her research focuses on higher education, with an emphasis on teacher education, underprivileged and international students, and is informed by theories of organisational and student resilience, decolonisation, and social justice. She has published in DHET-accredited journals, contributed book chapters, edited three books, and guest-edited three special issues.

1. Chiramba, O. (2025). Re-bordering education: Embracing resilience in addressing refugee students’ precarity in South African higher education amidst global crises. Perspectives in Education, 43(2), 84-96.

2. Chiramba, O., & Nyoni, P. (2025). Academic freedom experiences among postdoctoral research fellows in South Africa: Implications for democratisation and transformation. South African Journal of Higher Education, 39(4), 73-90.

3. Woldegiorgis, E. T., & Chiramba, O. (2025). Access and success in higher education: fostering resilience in historically disadvantaged students in South Africa. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 17(2), 759-771.

4. Tabe, H. T., Motala, S., & Chiramba, O. (2025). Transformative Practices in ODeL: Advancing Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Progressio, 14-pages.

Area of focus:

Educational leadership, teacher education, higher education, decolonisation, social justice, resilience

Link to research:

https://orcid.org/0000‑0003‑4668‑8536

Last Modified: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:15:35 SAST