Academic person

Research interests

Prof. OB Onyancha

Altmetrics, infometrics, and webometrics; current trends in LIS; information and knowledge management; libraries and information centres or agencies; research trends in LIS; information for development and change; information and society/culture; ICTs in LIS; social informatics.

Prof. P Ngulube

Archival Science; archives and records management; libraries and information centres or agencies; LIS education and training; current trends in LIS; indigenous knowledge systems; information and knowledge management; information for development and change; information and society/culture; research trends in LIS; ICTs in LIS; LIS; e-government; social informatics.

Prof. MA Dikotla

Records; Information and Knowledge management; school and public libraries; LIS education; information organisation and retrieval; public service delivery.

Prof. L Dube

Libraries and information centres or agencies; LIS education and training; current trends in LIS; indigenous knowledge systems; information and knowledge management; information for development and change; information and society/culture; research trends in LIS.

Prof. M Ngoepe

Archival Science; archives and records management; data curatorship, information governance, social media, archival diplomatics, digital records forensics, auditing, informetrics, cloud computing, legislation, and standards

Prof. T Rodrigues

Archival Science; archives and records management; information for development and change; information and knowledge society/culture.

Prof. I Schellnack- Kelly

Archival Science; archives and records management; information for development and change; information and society/culture.

Prof. NP Saurombe

Archives and records management; Information for development and change; Information literacy; oral history, audiovisual archives, digitisation of archives, artificial intelligence in archives and records management, governance matters concerning records management, climate change and its effect on indigenous knowledge and oral history, social media on climate change and the environment, records management and sustainable development matters.

Prof. BA Shibambu

Digital transformation, cloud computing, digitisation and digitalisation, Digital preservation, Information and digital literacy, Internet of Things, Digital Libraries and Information Centres, IT infrastructure, digital records management ,

Prof. S Mojapelo

School libraries, Libraries and information centres or agencies; information literacy and family literacy; information dissemination.

Prof. M Fombad

Information for development and change; Information and society/culture; Information and knowledge management; and Libraries and information centres or agencies (school, public, academic, private, national, and provincial libraries).

Prof. JR Maluleka

Informetrics, Scientometrics and webometrics, Indigenous knowledge systems, Altmetrics, Information and knowledge management, Information seeking behaviours.

Prof. MT Modiba

Application of AI & robotics, Internet of Things, Cloud computing, big data, and Blockchain technology in the LIS sector.

Prof. N Zimu-Biyela

Infopreneurship, Information for development and change, Information literacy, Information access and Behaviour, User studies, Research trends in LIS, IKS, Sustainable Development Goals

Prof. IK Hlongwane

Digital preservation and curation ·  Information literacy and misinformation ·  Big data and research data management (RDM) ·  Community informatics and social Justice ·  AI and machine learning ·  Scholarly communication and open access ·  User experience (UX) and human-computer interaction (HCI) ·  Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) ·  Information seeking behaviour ·  Information ethics and privacy ·  Cloud-based electronic records management (EDRMS) ·  Gamification in library services ·  Internet of Things (IoT) and smart libraries ·  Archive and museum informatics (GLAM) ·  Crisis and disaster information management ·  Human-AI collaboration in information synthesis ·  Public, special, school, and academic libraries ·  LIS education, training, and RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) ·  Information and knowledge management (Including Ubuntu philosophy) ·  Information and Society/Culture (Including Governance) ·  Information for Development and Change ·  ICTs in LIS ·  Management of Libraries and Information Centres/Agencies ·  Current Research Trends in LIS

Prof. L Jacobs

Archival Science; archives and records management; data curatorship, legislation and standards, LIS education and training; current trends in LIS; information for development and change; information and society/culture; ICTs in LIS; LIS; Information dissemination; libraries and information centres or agencies; e-records and e-government; Research trends in LIS; Information law, ethics and philosophy; Information behaviour and information seeking.

Prof. N Marutha

Archival Science; archives and records management; data curatorship, information governance, archival diplomatics, digital records forensics, enterprise recordkeeping and cloud computing, electronic records management, legislation and standards. indigenous knowledge systems, Information, knowledge, and Libraries management.

Dr K McGuirk

Library and Information Science; information philosophy and ethics; current trends in LIS; political economy of information; information literacy; social informatics; information and society/culture.

Dr K.Chuma

Data cybersecurity and Information security, information and data governance, records management, health information technology, digital health systems, electronic records management, data management, digital ethics and technology policy, e-records and e-government, legislation and standards.

Dr M  Mojapelo

Freedom of information, Digital data curation, archival advocacy, public programming, oral history, information governance, data science, archival education, research data curation, information ethics, archival inclusivity, legislation and standards

Dr L Ledwaba

Library and Information Science education and training; Information organisation, representation, and retrieval; Information security; Information law and ethics; Libraries and information centres or agencies (school, public, academic, private, national and provincial libraries); cataloguing ethics.

Dr M Molaudi

Information organisation (Cataloguing, Classification, Subject headings); Information behaviour; Metadata research; Use of AI in metadata

Dr. MJ Boloka

Reading and writing in rural communities; Sustainability of reading clubs; Information organisation, representation and retrieval; Research trends in LIS; Library and Information Science (LIS) education and training; School, academic and public librarianship; Information ethics; Information access in rural areas; Information seeking behaviour; Inclusive education; ICT in information centres (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums).

Dr LP Luthuli

Contemporary issues in Library and Information Science (LIS), including medical records management, digital records management, digital preservation and data curation, web archiving, artificial intelligence, liquid communication, cloud computing, databases, electronic records management systems, knowledge management, information ethics, and the strategic management of library and information centres.

Dr JM Ngoaketsi

Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science Studies, Oral history Studies, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Studies, Historical Memory Studies, Digital Memory Studies, Africanism and decolonial Studies

Dr M Msomi

Change management; data and information governance; data lifecycle management; archival science and records management (including electronic records); library and information science; cybersecurity and privacy; digital ecosystems and integration; digital health systems and transformation; health information technology; digital innovation; digital ethics and policy; digital humanities; e-government; and regulatory compliance, legislation, and standards. 

Dr MM Shekgola

Digital curation, Archival Science, Archives and records management, Data curatorship, Digital Records Forensics, Information and knowledge management, Information security,

Dr JR Matshotshwane

Citizen archives, oral history, inclusive archives, sports archives, Family archives, documentation of grassroots communities, Decolonisation of archives, development and management of information resources and land records

Dr MW Rammutloa

Citizen Science, Citizen-generated data, Information and Knowledge management, Research data management, Data integrity, Sustainable development goal, Current trends in Library and Information Science, Libraries and information centres or agencies.

Dr TV Dube

Research Data Management, Research Data Curation, Open Science, Information and Communication Technologies in academic libraries, Academic library services, Data Science.

Dr VN Mathope

Archives and Records management, Advocacy, Management of Public Records, Transformative and emerging technologies with archives and records management, Artificial intelligence, Big data, Blockchain technology, Cloud computing, and the Internet of Things

Ms NP Langa

Information access, information use, information behaviour and information seeking, Information and society/culture, Libraries and information centres or agencies (school, public, academic, private, national and provincial libraries), Information governance, Information for development and change, Information dissemination, Sustainable Development Goals

Mr AL Legodi

e-Records and e-Government, Archives and records management, ICTs in Library and Information Science, Current trends in LIS (Library and Information Science), Library and Information Science

Mr S Makhubela

Information and knowledge management, Records management, LIS, and ICT in LIS.

Mr TLS Mbatha

Archives and records management, Digital transformation, blockchain technology, Information security, Information law, ethics, and philosophy, Research data management