In 2003/4 he was a visiting Rockefeller post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. In 2005/06 he was a New Century Fulbright Fellow again, at the same university. His research interests are in the areas of higher education policy, internationalization of higher education, higher education in Africa and globalization of higher education. He has served in several international research projects focusing on higher education and providing expertise from the South African and African perspectives. In 2013-2017 he served as the Chairperson of the Board of the African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE) and he is currently serving on its board. He currently serves as the chairperson of the Education Deans’ Forum of South Africa. He has three- edited scholarly books on higher education, one sole authored book titled “Democratising higher education policy, constraints of policy in post-apartheid South Africa. He has published more than 40 articles in journal articles, book chapters and popular media. In 2020-2022 he was appointed a guest editor of the subsection of the Elsevier’s Encyclopedia on Education which focused on Higher Education Policy Governance and Practice. This is a volume that is produce ones in 10 years. This was in recognition of his expertise in the field higher education.