Delecia Davids will live and work in the garden cottage of Albert Einstein’s summer house in Germany after becoming the first South African to receive the prestigious Einstein Fellowship.
A Cape Town academic has become the first South African to receive the prestigious Einstein Fellowship.
Delecia Davids described being awarded the fellowship as an honour and “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity which had not “fully sunk in yet”.
The fully funded fellowship, offered by the Einstein Forum in collaboration with the Wittenstein Foundation, supports exceptional young intellectuals pursuing interdisciplinary work beyond their previous specialisation, following the example set by Albert Einstein. Davids will live and work in the garden cottage of Einstein’s summer house in Caputh, Germany for six months.
This selection recognises Davids as one of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) brightest emerging academic stars. An early-career researcher, lecturer and teacher educator in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Davids works across critical educational technology studies, digital agency, emerging technologies and assessment.
