Teaching and Learning Specialist
Teaching and Learning Specialist
Qualifications
Research interests
Biography
Tracey is a Teaching and Learning Specialist in higher education with a strong grounding in research psychology, curriculum design, and academic development. Her work brings together psychology, pedagogy, and affective learning, with particular interest in the pedagogy of discomfort, presence pedagogy, emotional containment, and the relational aspects of adaptive instruction. She plays an active role in strengthening research culture at the Westville campus, leading initiatives such as the Couch to A-List programme, facilitating campus writers’ retreats, and coordinating the inaugural research colloquium in October 2025. In June 2025 she was honoured with the Emeris Westville campus’s Top Researcher Award in recognition of her scholarly contribution and leadership. Tracey also invests deeply in her own development, building connections with esteemed academics at national and international conferences to enrich her learning and collaborations. She is often invited to review work submitted in international journals and was awarded a certificate of excellence in reviewing from the Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies. Her current projects include shaping a dedicated “Couch to Conference” programme for 2026 and advancing a major scoping review on the use of artificial intelligence in service-learning and community engagement. She continues to mentor researchers, support multidisciplinary postgraduate work, and teach research at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Teaching and Learning Specialist
Teaching and Learning Specialist
Qualifications
Research interests
Biography
Tracey is a Teaching and Learning Specialist in higher education with a strong grounding in research psychology, curriculum design, and academic development. Her work brings together psychology, pedagogy, and affective learning, with particular interest in the pedagogy of discomfort, presence pedagogy, emotional containment, and the relational aspects of adaptive instruction. She plays an active role in strengthening research culture at the Westville campus, leading initiatives such as the Couch to A-List programme, facilitating campus writers’ retreats, and coordinating the inaugural research colloquium in October 2025. In June 2025 she was honoured with the Emeris Westville campus’s Top Researcher Award in recognition of her scholarly contribution and leadership. Tracey also invests deeply in her own development, building connections with esteemed academics at national and international conferences to enrich her learning and collaborations. She is often invited to review work submitted in international journals and was awarded a certificate of excellence in reviewing from the Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies. Her current projects include shaping a dedicated “Couch to Conference” programme for 2026 and advancing a major scoping review on the use of artificial intelligence in service-learning and community engagement. She continues to mentor researchers, support multidisciplinary postgraduate work, and teach research at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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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