107

Number of Chancellors Fellows

19

Number of Associate Professors

21

Leadership
Positions

149

Number of publications (2021-2025)

247

Masters Students supervised and graduated

58

PhD students supervised and graduated

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Female Academic Leaders Fellowship (FALF) NPC is a non-profit company that seeks to develop a pipeline of women academic leaders, using an intersectional lens to ensure no demographic group is left behind. Based on the Ministerial Task Team Report (2020) the social group that lacks representation in academic leadership and senior research is Black Women, namely African and Coloured South African women, as defined by the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003, as may be amended from time-to-time B-BBEE Act), (the Designated Group).

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Join us in empowering future female academia and solving tomorrow’s problems today. The FALF was created to ensure that our best and brightest female academics get the recognition and more importantly the resources they deserve.

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

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The FALF is committed to enhancing the potential of previously disadvantaged females. Our aim is to create a sisterhood of talented, educated and strong leaders. We are building a network unlike anything before and need you to join us. 

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Our Vision

Our Vision

We envision a country where academic leadership reflects the social demographics of the nation, where men and women work together towards equity at all levels and where every FALF Fellow lifts as she rises, transforming South Africa, the African continent, and the world.

Our Mission

Our Mission

  • To work with University leadership to develop women academic leaders in the least transformed area, African and Coloured women (South African).
  • To assist FALF Fellows to develop themselves to qualify for promotions and to positions of professoriate
  • To assist the University to create role models for the majority of the student body who are Black females.
  • To assist in the diversification of knowledge production.
  • To help create peer-to-peer mentorship across disciplines and across institutions.
  • To encourage multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration on research and community out-reach.
  • To collaborate with international institutions to internationalise the FALF.
  • To establish Research Chairs to conduct research on the country’s challenges.

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Companies and individuals that have joined as donors and are working with us to empower the next generation of female academics in South Africa.

Our Values

  • South African, African and Coloured women academics on permanent condition of employment
  • South African, African and Coloured Women academics on contract: the researcher’s term of employment should exceed the fellowship period
  • Applicants must be employed at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer levels (or equivalent)
  • Master’s degree and PhD holders
  • Applicants may concurrently hold grant awards from other sources; however full disclosure will be required

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”

Nelson Mandela

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