Dr Tinyiko Chauke is Senior Researcher in the Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She holds a PhD in Psychology from UNISA, awarded in 2020, for her dissertation, Women’s Conceptualisations of Sexual Expression: A Narrative Inquiry of a Rural Community in Mpumalanga. She also holds an MA in Social Behaviour Studies in HIV/AIDS from UNISA (2015), an Honours degree in Psychology (2010), and a BA in Psychology from the University of Johannesburg (2007). Her scholarship is informed by social justice and Afrikanist perspectives that challenge conventional scientific analyses of African communities. She places particular emphasis on stories and personal narratives as important epistemic resources in the social construction of identity, belonging, and community life. Her research interests include feminist and gender studies in the African diaspora, gender transformation and justice, engaged scholarship in higher education as a liberatory practice, decolonial thought, and Afrocentric research methodologies. Prior to her current appointment, Dr Chauke served as Programme Manager and Researcher at North-West University, where she led a national study across South Africa’s 26 public universities as part of the UCDP University Capacity Development collaborative project. This initiative focused on strengthening the professional development and career progression of academic teachers and researchers.