Rate My Professor Sioux McKenna

Professor Sioux McKenna is Professor of Higher Education Research at Rhodes University and Director of the Centre for Postgraduate Studies. She has worked in academic development since 1992, beginning as an English Second Language lecturer at Mangosuthu Technikon. She subsequently spent fourteen years at the Durban University of Technology, where she served as Director of the Centre for Higher Education Development, overseeing foundation programmes, entrance testing, student and staff development, curriculum development, and online learning. She later joined the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where she taught on the coursework Master’s programme in higher education and supervised students at Master’s and doctoral levels. At Rhodes University, she developed the doctoral programme in higher education studies within the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning before assuming her current directorship role, in which she supports postgraduate scholars and supervisors across the institution while continuing to supervise in the higher education studies programme.