Prof. Elmarie Kritzinger
Head of Department
Elmarie joined the University of South Africa’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology in 2000 and currently holds the position of Professor in the School of Computing (Department of Information System). Prof Kritzinger continued her PhD completing her PGCE and a MEd (ICT in Education). She is currently NRF C2 rated within South Africa.
Prof Kritzinger has established herself as a mature researcher and has published in accredited national and international journals, contributed to chapters in books and presented at peer-reviewed conferences. Although her research focuses primarily on Information Security (Cyber) Awareness, she is cross-disciplinary skilled in the fields of information systems and education.
Founding member and project leader of a Cyber Awareness Project within the School of Computing at UNISA, her aspiration is to provide school children and communities in South Africa and Africa with a cyber awareness supporting documents to enrich their knowledge and ensure they are cyber safe. This project is multi-institutional with partners in industry, academia, government and public sector. As part of her corporate citizenship, Prof Kritzinger has successfully organized colloquiums and workshops on key discussions relating to cyber awareness and have been an invited as speaker for several workshops and conferences on the topic of Information Security Awareness and Education.
A number of honours, Master’s and Doctoral students are currently under her supervision within the fields of cyber safety, information systems and education.
Research areas:
- Cyber Safety for communities, school, industry, and governments.
- Culturalization of digital devices for education within 4th IR
- Information Security Management
- Digital ecosystems
- Education of ICT for the future
- Information Governance
Elmarie joined the University of South Africa’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology in 2000 and currently holds the position of Professor in the School of Computing (Department of Information System). Prof Kritzinger continued her PhD completing her PGCE and a MEd (ICT in Education). She is currently NRF C2 rated within South Africa.
Prof Kritzinger has established herself as a mature researcher and has published in accredited national and international journals, contributed to chapters in books and presented at peer-reviewed conferences. Although her research focuses primarily on Information Security (Cyber) Awareness, she is cross-disciplinary skilled in the fields of information systems and education.
Founding member and project leader of a Cyber Awareness Project within the School of Computing at UNISA, her aspiration is to provide school children and communities in South Africa and Africa with a cyber awareness supporting documents to enrich their knowledge and ensure they are cyber safe. This project is multi-institutional with partners in industry, academia, government and public sector. As part of her corporate citizenship, Prof Kritzinger has successfully organized colloquiums and workshops on key discussions relating to cyber awareness and have been an invited as speaker for several workshops and conferences on the topic of Information Security Awareness and Education.
A number of honours, Master’s and Doctoral students are currently under her supervision within the fields of cyber safety, information systems and education.
Research areas:
- Cyber Safety for communities, school, industry, and governments.
- Culturalization of digital devices for education within 4th IR
- Information Security Management
- Digital ecosystems
- Education of ICT for the future
- Information Governance
