Kirstin Wilmot

Kirstin Wilmot is a Senior Lecturer at Rhodes University and Coordinator of the Higher Education Studies Doctoral Programme at the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL). She teaches on the Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education and facilitates short courses on academic writing, integrating her background in linguistics with higher education studies.

• Academic role: Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University
• Key responsibility: Doctoral Programme Coordination
• Teaching focus: Academic literacies, doctoral writing

Her research focuses on doctoral education, emphasizing disciplinary knowledge-building practices and the social justice implications of academic literacy barriers. She employs Legitimation Code Theory to analyze doctoral writing and supervision frameworks.

Recent publications highlight collaborative supervision models, critical hope in African doctoral programs, and LCT applications in higher education pedagogy. She is an Associate Member of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building.