Dr. Oosthuizen is the UNESCO K4C academic lead and the Rhodes University institutional coordinator of the Engaged Research Programme. She is a certified UNESCO Knowledge for Change Mentor. She holds a DPhil in Public Administration from Nelson Mandela University. Her research and work experiences focus extensively on disaster risk management, social and economic development planning, engaged research, community engagement and policy analysis and monitoring as effective tools for sustainable development. Dr. Oosthuizen is a certified UNESCO Knowledge for Change Mentor. She was previously employed as Academic Dean of the School of Disaster Management at Stenden South Africa, an international campus site of NHLStenden, a dutch university based in the north of the Netherlands. Before that she was employed as lecturer in the Department of Politics and Governmental studies at Nelson Mandela University as well as in the Department of Public Management at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). Dr. Oosthuizen has also worked as a researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Governance at NMU and at the SABC.
- Engaged Research
- Disaster Risk Management
- Human Research Ethics
- Social and Economic Development
- Decoloniality
- Public Policy
- Sustainability