Deputy Dean: Design
Qualifications
Research Interests
Biography
Lizette Carstens started her career designing voter education material for the IEC for South Africa's first democratic elections. She later joined a subsidiary of QData as a digital designer responsible for developing interactive training material and maintaining the company’s website and in 2002, founded her own design studio. Her academic career started as a part-time lecturer while completing her Masters degree in Information Design at the University of Pretoria. She joined the Independent Institute of Education's (IIE) as part-time lecturer and Honours supervisor in 2014, before moving to a full-time position as National Programme Manager For Creative Brand Communication and Gamification. Lizette is a member of the Golden Key Society and has published on the use of co-design approaches in SME and educational contexts. She is currently Deputy Dean of Design, managing the design unit at The IIE Emeris (Vega School) and pursuing a Doctoral degree in Innovation and Technology Management, focussing on the use of design thinking approaches to support innovation capacity in South African SMMEs.
Deputy Dean: Design
Qualifications
Research Interests
Biography
Lizette Carstens started her career designing voter education material for the IEC for South Africa's first democratic elections. She later joined a subsidiary of QData as a digital designer responsible for developing interactive training material and maintaining the company’s website and in 2002, founded her own design studio. Her academic career started as a part-time lecturer while completing her Masters degree in Information Design at the University of Pretoria. She joined the Independent Institute of Education's (IIE) as part-time lecturer and Honours supervisor in 2014, before moving to a full-time position as National Programme Manager For Creative Brand Communication and Gamification. Lizette is a member of the Golden Key Society and has published on the use of co-design approaches in SME and educational contexts. She is currently Deputy Dean of Design, managing the design unit at The IIE Emeris (Vega School) and pursuing a Doctoral degree in Innovation and Technology Management, focussing on the use of design thinking approaches to support innovation capacity in South African SMMEs.
An educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education
Formed by the strategic evolution of The IIE's Varsity College, IIE MSA, Vega and
the School of Hospitality and Service Management, uniting under the Emeris name.
Emeris is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd which is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997 (reg. no. 2007/HE07/002). Company registration number: 1987/004754/07. View certificate here.
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