Salochana Lorraine HassanAssociate Professor Salochana Lorraine Hassan is employed as Head of Department of the Academic Staff Development Unit at Fundani Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Previously, she worked a Deputy Director at the University of Botswana's Teaching and Learning Centre in the Centre for Academic Development. She also worked at the prestigious St George's University of London Medical Faculty for a year, and she facilitated a one-week assessment workshop in Dubai. Before moving into academic staff development, she worked in the medical field as a lecturer, both in biochemistry and physiology. Her current research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, problem-based learning, and academic development, areas in which she has published widely and presented papers at national and international conferences, for example, in Florida, Lima, Bergen, Trondheim, Gaborone, Rome, Bolzano, Valencia, Istanbul, Auckland, Hong Kong, Perth and South Africa. She has, and is currently, supervising postgraduate students. She coordinates and facilitates the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education module of the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; she also facilitates the scholarship of teaching and learning programme that she designed and coordinates. She also designed the Teaching Development Programme that equips new academics with the knowledge and skills for effective pedagogical practice. She developed the teaching and learning policy for the University of Botswana; and reviewed the policy on student feedback on teaching and courses for CPUT. She holds a PhD in education (University of Pretoria); MSc in biochemistry (University of KwaZulu-Natal); and a Master's in education (UNISA). Read More Read Less