<b>CHAPTER 5:</b> Rethinking Support for University Teachers in the Context of a Decolonising Higher Education: The Role of Academic Developers

In this chapter, the diverse histories of formerly different universities that were merged into one is the focus of this study. It illustrates how academic developers’ (ADs) commitment post the merger to continuously re-think strategies to effectively offer responsive academic development support to students and academic staff continues to produce good results. Tasked with a mandate to render academic development support to academic staff, postgraduate, as well as undergraduate students to achieve equity of outcomes, ADs continue to re-think the strategy and approach in fulfilling their mandate. The chapter draws from New Literacy Studies (NLS) as the theoretical lens to advance its argument for the critical role ADs play to professionalise academics as university teachers.