Siddique Motala, PhD
Deputy Chief Scientist and Scientific Director GDH Afrika
Siddique Motala is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He has a BSc in land surveying, an MSc in digital photogrammetry, and a PhD in Education. His research interests are spatio-temporal mapping, storytelling, posthumanism, transportation, socially just pedagogies and decolonization in engineering education.
For the last 15 years, he has been mapping and researching District Six, perhaps the most well-known site of apartheid forced removals. He works closely with the District Six Museum, and his current research is focused on app development and telling historic stories that emerge from transdisciplinary enquiry.
He is a member of the Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE), the Centre for Transport Studies (CfTS) at UCT, and an associate editor of Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL journal). He co-edited Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to–Come (Routledge, 2021).