Nyna Amin

Degrees Held

  • BA
  • B.Ed (Hons)
  • M.Ed (cum laude),
  • D.Ed

Experience

  • BEd – Professional Studies 110; Teaching Practice 120 (2006-2011)
  • MEd – Generic research modules (2008-2014)
  • PhD – Cohort supervision (2008-2014)

Awards

  • NRF grant: Teachers’ Work Project (2014-2016)
  • HELTASA National Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (2012)
  • Distinguished Teacher’s Award (2011)
  • Teaching and Learning Innovations and Quality Enhancement Grant (2010)
  • Winner: Best Scholarly Engagement. Research Indaba, U of Pretoria (2009)
  • Tripartite Research Collaboration Scholarship – Belgium (2009)
  • Tripartite Research Collaboration Scholarship – Belgium (2008)
  • Merit Award from the University of KwaZulu-Natal for excellent work (2007)
  • Leap Lectureship in Education (2006 – 2008)
  • Fulbright Scholarship to Michigan State University (2003 – 2004)

Research Interests

Teacher education, higher education, medical education, gender, discourse analysis

TeachingInterests

Educational research and discourses, research methodology, proposal writing skills, writing for publication

Student

Supervision

Selected

Publications