Her research expertise and publications explore transformation in higher education, with a specific emphasis on feminist decolonial pedagogies and critical community psychology perspectives on equity and youth citizenship in higher education contexts. She has published numerous journal articles in these areas and is the co-editor of the books Community, self and identity: Educating South African university students for citizenship (Human Science Research Council (HSRC Press, 2012), Discerning critical hope in educational practices (Routledge 2014), Transforming Transformation in Teaching and Research in Higher Education (African Sun Media, 2018) and Community Psychology: South African Praxis (2022). She serves on South African and international journal editorial boards that intersect in the fields of education and community psychology and serves on managing boards, most notably the SAMRC (South African Medical Research Council 2019-present). She is a Fulbright research scholar alumnus (2021-2022), chief editor of the journal, Psychology in Society (PINS), and a member of ASSAF (Academy of Science of South Africa).