Andiswa Mfengu

Andiswa Mfengu is a Lecturer in the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship in the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a master’s degree (University of Cape Town) and has recently completed a PhD at the same institution. Andiswa Mfengu is an emerging scholar in the area of research impact assessment, focusing on the development of a more holistic framework for such assessment that is relevant to transformative and decolonizing contexts. She is currently the Vice-Chair for Library Education & Training Institutions of the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), and the Chapter Assembly Representative for the Africa Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). She was recently awarded the prestigious South African National Research Foundation funded Black Academics Advancement Programme fellowship.

Publications

University Rankings and Performance Assessment Systems Driving Research Impact in the Global South
University Rankings and Performance Assessment Systems Driving Research Impact in the Global South
Andiswa Mfengu, Jaya Raju. © 2023. 16 pages.
Higher education performance assessment systems are under scrutiny as they are viewed as driving scholarship away from its fundamental purpose which is to recognize and reward...