Dr Katherine Carter

Biography Dr Katherine Carter is a Lecturer in the Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education Programme. She has extensive international higher education experience, having previously taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, the University of Kurdistan-Hawler in Iraq, and the University of Cape Verde. Katherine’s research interests include journal article writing and publishing, student-centred instruction, and integrating technology in professional development programmes. She completed a (second) master’s degree in Higher Education at the University of Surrey in 2025 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of London in 2020. Her work explores modelling and implementing inclusive assessment. Katherine is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. 

Research Focus -Inclusive assessment -professional development -relational pedagogy -student voice 

Teaching Postgraduate -Teaching and Learning -Technology Integration in Teaching and Learning 

Conference presentations 
Conference: Empowering and Sustaining Change. Centre for Online and Distance Education. University of London. Paper title: Modelling and implementing inclusive assessment practices to enable student success in Namibia. 13 March 2025 

Conference: Designing for Social Justice Partnership. Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Paper title: Can collaborative rubric co-creation enhance agency and transformation in Namibia? 3 October 2025 

Publications: 
“Shifting our Focus in Professional Development Programs from Changing Individuals to Building Community: Lessons from Namibia.” (2022). Humanity and Society. 1-17. 

“Flipping the Post-Covid Online Classroom at the Namibia University of Science in Technology.” (2022) in S. Keengwe (ed.), Handbook of Research on Transformative and Innovative Pedagogies in Education, pp. 93-111, IGI Global, Hershey. 

“Finding our way to more student-centered teaching in Namibia: The case of the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education.” (2020) in S. Hoidn & M. Klemencic (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Instruction in Higher Education, pp. 101-122, Routledge, New York. 

“Moving to Deep and Transformative Learning: Professional Development Programmes at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST).” (2019). Namibia Continuous Professional Development Journal for Educators.

“Integrating Technology in the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education in Namibia: Is It an Effective Tool for Professional Development?” (2017) in S. Keengwe (ed.), Handbook of Research on Digital Content, Mobile Learning and Technology Integration Models in Teacher Education, pp.115-131, IGI Global, Hershey. 

“Publish, don’t Perish: Ten Tips.” (2016). English Teaching Forum. 54 (1).

“The Domestic Workers Convention is not enough: A post-colonial feminist view of Ethiopian and Filipino domestic workers in Iraqi Kurdistan.” (2016). Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. 37 (3).