Phefumula Nyoni is an anthropologist and sociologist lecturer and researcher. He has been actively involved in curriculum design, implementation and programme quality assurance. He completed his PhD on Economic Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are multidisciplinary and include education transformation, quality assurance and curriculum design in tertiary institutions, particularly from a culture-centric perspective, reconfiguration of urban spaces, access to socio-economic amenities for marginalized communities, poverty alleviation and human rights, community development, urban artisanal mining, gender and entrepreneurship. Phefumula Nyoni is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg. Prior to joining the Centre, he has been a lecturer at various South African universities as well as a research and policy consultant with several organizations. His recent Chapter publications include; "Pedagogy and Agency in Postgraduate Student Supervision in a Rural South African University".