Associate Professor Corrinne Shaw

Corrinne is an Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE) at UCT.

She engages with the messy, concrete, practical world of practice (whether it be fieldwork in the classroom or workplace) using appropriate theoretical lenses to understand (and possibly intervene in) the learning transitions of students and practitioners. Her primary research activities encompass two areas related to transitions, firstly, the transition between professional practice and academic practice; and the transition from university to professional practice. 

These areas of research are concerned with transformative learning. Becoming a management practitioner through formal academic study or becoming an engineer through the translation of academic engineering knowledge to professional knowledge requires transformations that involves identity shifts. This research contributes to understanding of how these transformations are effected and consequently informs recommendations for learning design and success in academic and professional practice.