Ann Zeta George
AfOx and Female Academic Leaders Fellow (FALF)
South Africa
Dr Ann George is a Senior Lecturer: Curriculum and Faculty Development in the Centre for Health Science Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ann holds a PhD in Science Education and is a C2-rated researcher [South African National Research Foundation (NRF), 2024], indicating an established researcher with a sustained record of productivity. She has been the recipient of several NRF grants and current base funding from the African Engineering and Technology Network (AFRETECH) for the multidisciplinary project, Systematic inquiry into learning design and technology-enhanced learning in health sciences education: Building communities of practice.
Ann received the Vice-Chancellor’s Team-Teaching Award and Faculty of Health Sciences PV Tobias and Convocation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2022 and the Best Publication Award 2023 from the Southern African Association for Health Professions Educationalists (SAAHE). She chairs the SAAHE Research Significant Interest Group, is a Deputy Editor for the Human Resources for Health journal, and an Associate Editor for Advances in Health Sciences Education.
Ann was a Female Academic Leaders Fellowship (FALF) Chancellor’s Fellow in 2021, which led to her recent award of an Africa Oxford (AfOx) Visiting Fellowship (December 2025–December 2026). Her research focus on the use of educational technologies to improve health science education in resource-constrained settings aligns with the AfOx thematic area of Innovation for Prosperity. Her research encompasses the implications of non-clinical and clinical teacher readiness for designing effective digital learning tasks; the role of faculty developers in supporting teachers in integrating digital learning, including AI, into their teaching; and the impact of digital learning on students. Ann will be visiting Oxford between May and June 2026 to collaborate with Dr Danica Sims from the Department of Education.