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PhD(Wits), Hon DSc (Bristol), MASSAf, GCOB, FAAS

Mamokgethi Phakeng (formerly Setati) began her term of office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town on 1 July 2018, where she had been serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation since January 2017. Prior to this appointment, Phakeng assumed the role of Vice Principal for Research and Innovation at the University of South Africa (Unisa) for five years, after serving three years as the Executive Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at the same university. Phakeng holds a PhD in Mathematics Education from the University of the Witwatersrand and is an esteemed B1 NRF-rated research scientist with over 80 research papers and five edited volumes published. 

Phakeng has been invited to deliver over 40 keynote/plenary talks at international conferences and served as visiting professor at various universities around the world including Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mexico, Moroc

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Bristol Illustrious Visiting Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits), Hon DSc (Bristol), MASSAf, GCOB, FAAS

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng was a Bristol Illustrious Visiting Professor in 2021/22, you can read the University of Bristol's news announcement here as well as our news article, her biography can be viewed below.

A recording of the launch event held on the 20th October 2021 and her public lecture held on International Women's Day, 8th March 2022, 'One Country, many languages: Can South Africa's multilingualism contribute to social cohesion?', are both available to view on the IRD YouTube channel. There is also a blog post about her public lecture, viewable here.

Professor Phakeng returned to the Univeristy of Bristol in the first week of October 2022 for the final part of her year-long Bristol Illustrious Visiting Professorship.  She took part in two public lecture events, one was in her research area of Mathematics Education 'Mathematics Education and Language Diversity: From Language-as-Problem to Language-as-Resource'.   She also took

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