Dr Kasturi Behari-Leak is Associate Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Development at UCT. As Interim Director of the Academic Staff and Professional Development Unit, her work explores the interplay between structure, culture and lecturers’ critical agency in a contested global South context. As Deputy Dean- teaching and learning, she teaches on post graduate programmes in higher education studies. As co-chair of the Curriculum Change Working Group focusing on decolonisation of the curriculum, she led many engagements and has published in the field of higher education studies and decolonising pedagogies/ decolonising the curriculum.
She is President of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa and convenes its University Staff Doctoral Programme. She is President of the International Consortium of Educational Development (ICED). She leads a national collaborative project on academic staff development and serves on the research advisory committee of the World Universities Network. She serves on editorial boards in HE and is part of several national and international research consortia, focused on HE.