This issue includes 5 original research articles and 3 book reviews. The topics dealt with in the articles include developing new academic lecturers through a targeted staff development programme in higher education, establishing a faculty-based writing centre at a South African university, engaging in post-qualitative research in rethinking and redesigning a design education curriculum development, engaging young black students from rural communities in negotiating their own knowledge-making practices as they move through university, and the place of indigenous knowledge alongside Western science.