Bianca Ifeoma Chigbu

Motivated instructor with more than seven years of practical educational and labor relations expertise and a track record of engaging students with exciting and pertinent topics. Known for engaging lectures supported by helpful resources and meticulous classroom management. A conscientious educator who employs new pedagogies that are both engaging and transformative with each student's learning goals in mind. Demonstrated capacity to collaborate with others and co-author scholarly articles.

Basics of Project Management, International Business Management Institute, No Expiration date

• Chigbu, B.I., Ngwevu, V. and Jojo, A., 2023. The effectiveness of innovative pedagogy in the industry 4.0: Educational ecosystem perspective. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 7(1), p.100419.
• Chigbu, B.I. and Nekhwevha, F.H., 2022. Academic-faculty environment and graduate employability: Variation of work-readiness perceptions. Heliyon, p.e09117.
• Chigbu, B.I. and Nekhwevha, F.H., 2021. The future of work and uncertain labour alternatives as we live through the industrial age of possible singularity: Evidence from South Africa. Technology in Society, 67, p.101715.
• Chigbu, B.I. and Nekhwevha, F.H., 2021. High school training outcome and academic performance of first-year tertiary institution learners-Taking 'Input-Environment-Outcomes model' into account. Heliyon, 7(7), p.e07700
• Chigbu, B.I. and Nekhwevha, F.H., 2021. Research Bites: The impact of robotics on SA's automobile industry. Connecting Africa. http://www.connectingafrica.com/author.asp?section_id=809&doc_id=771188
• Chigbu, B. I. and Nekhwevha, F. H. (2020) ‘The extent of job automation in the automobile sector in South Africa’, Economic and Industrial Democracy. doi: 10.1177/0143831X20940779.
• Chigbu, B. I. and Nekhwevha, F. H. (2020) ‘The collaborative work experience of robotics and human workers in the automobile industry in South Africa’, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2020.1837446.

• Ramaphosa addresses South Africa’s unemployment in nation address on the 10th of February 2022. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/10/ramaphosa-addresses-south-africas-unemployment-in-nation-address
• Employment bloodbath on the cards. Published in Mail & Guardian on the 22nd July 2021. https://mg.co.za/business/2021-07-22-employment-bloodbath-on-the-cards/
• How the workplace has shifted 27 years into democracy. Published in Daily Maverick on the 1st May 2021. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-01-how-the-workplace-has-shifted-27-years-into-democracy/
• Will job creation schemes fix the unemployment crisis? Published in Mail & Guardian on the 4th March 2021. https://mg.co.za/tag/bianca-chigbu/
• South Africa’s auto industry highlights the social and employment cost of innovation. Published in The Conversation.com on September 30, 2020 (with Fhulu Nekhwevha). https://theconversation.com/south-africas-auto-industry-highlights-the-social-and-employment-cost-of-innovation-146331

• Conference: Decarbonizing Pan-African future of work: The mediating solutions through rational just transitions. Annual Humanities and Social Sciences Alumni Conference: Pan Africa Philosophies, Ideologies and Agendas: Rethinking Prosperity. Johannesburg. Nov. 02-03, 2022
• Conference: Task automation and work restructuring: A repressed struggle for a South African trade union to influence decision making in the automobile sector. Virtual Humanities and Social Sciences Alumni Conference: The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences in the South African Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. Johannesburg. Nov. 03-04, 2021
• Conference: Development challenges in Africa in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Feb. 11-12, 2021UNU-WIDER, Helsinki
• Seminar: Macroeconomics of reconstruction and recovery: policy options beyond Covid-19? The Human Sciences Research Council, Johannesburg. Feb. 17, 2021

• Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (WILEY)
• Economic and Industrial Democracy (SAGE)

Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Organizations (specialty section of Frontiers in Sociology).

South African Sociological Association

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