C.Boughey@ru.ac.za
Chrissie came to South Africa in 1989 after spending many years teaching English as a second/foreign language in places such as Spain, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. She worked in Academic Development at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Zululand before taking up the post of Director of what was, then, the Academic Development Centre at Rhodes in 1999. She later became Dean Teaching and Learning and then Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic & Student Affairs. She was granted emeritus status on her retirement in 2019.
She now lives in the Cape Winelands and, in 2023, was appointed at Stellenbosch University as a Professor Extraordinaire. In 2021, she co-authored a book with colleague Sioux McKenna entitled ‘Understanding higher education: Alternative perspectives’ which used a theoretical framework drawing on Bhaskar’s critical realism and Archer’s social realism to analyse developments in South African higher education since 1999. She is currently completing a new book, entitled ‘The Language Story’ tracking her own thinking about language and literacy development in the context of the South African higher education system and is working on a proposal for another book, to be co-authored with Kathy Luckett, on knowledge in Academic Development.
Chrissie is on the advisory boards of Teaching in Higher Education, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education and the International Journal of Academic Development. She is also an associate editor for the social sciences at the South African Journal of Science and reviews for many other international journals. She is also convenor of a specialist National Research Foundation panel reviewing applications for ratings in education.
Chrissie continues to supervise a range of topics in the field of higher education studies.
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