Highest Qualification: PhD

Nieuwenhuis, J & Jacobs, L. 2025. Introducing qualitative research.  In K Maree (Ed). First Steps to Research (4^th edition). Pretoria: Van Schaik (In press)

Nieuwenhuis, J & Jacobs, L. 2025. Qualitative Research Designs and Data Generation Techniques.  In K Maree (Ed). First Steps to Research (4^th edition). Pretoria: Van Schaik (In press)

Nieuwenhuis, J & Jacobs, L. 2025. Analysing Qualitative Data.  In K Maree (Ed). First Steps to Research (4^th edition). Pretoria: Van Schaik (In press)

2024 publications

Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L., Dawson, M. and Hagenmeier, C. 2024 The potential of collaborative online international learning as a border thinking third space for global citizenship education. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 16 (1):29-42. https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.16.1.03 .

Wimpenny, K; Jacobs, L. et al., 2024. Connectedness and communal thinking in a virtual borderland: Flourishing against the Normative, In Christina Hughes, Carol A. Taylor, Michelle Salazar Pérez, and Jasmine B. Ulmer, (Eds) Routledge International Handbook of Research and Methods in Transdisciplinary Feminism, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303558 (pp. 273-284). London: Routledge

Jacobs, L & Ferreira-Meyers, K. 2024. Teacher education in a flexible higher education environment: Considerations for the future, Teacher Education through Flexible Learning in Africa, 5:3-26, https://doi.org/10.35293/tetfle.v5i1.5076 

Larey, P; le Roux, A & Jacobs, L.  2024. Evoking edupreneurial leadership towards social justice among historically disadvantaged communities, International Journal of Leadership in Education, 27(2):412-428, https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2021.1882700. 

2023 publications 

Haug, E & Jacobs, L.  2023. The design of collaborative online internationalised learning (COIL)”. In Hunter, F., Ammigan, R., de Wit, H., Gregersen-Hermans, J., Jones, E., and Murphy, A.C. (Eds.) Internationalisation in higher education: Responding to new opportunities and challenges. Ten years of research by the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI). (pp. 143-156). Milano: EDUCatt. https://libri.educatt.online/books/CHEI/ebook-CHEI.pdf .

Oosthuysen, N, Jacobs, L & Wolhuter, C. 2023. Scoping Open and Distance Higher Education Scholarship.  Does distance education in the developing context need more research? Building practice into theory, (pp. 75-94). Pretoria: ESI Publishers

Howard, B., Ilyashenko, N., & Jacobs, L. 2023. Cross-cultural collaboration through virtual teaming in higher education. Perspectives in Education, 41(1), 74-87. https://doi.org/10.38140/pie.v41i1.6319    

2022 publications

Wimpenny, K; Finardi, K.R.; Orsini-Jones, M; & Jacobs, L. 2022. Knowing, Being, Relating and Expressing Through Third Space Global South-North COIL: Digital Inclusion and Equity in International Higher Education. Journal of Studies in International Education. 26(2):279-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153221094085 

Jacobs, L; Kruger, E. & Madiope, M. 2022. The potential of African diaspora academics and diaspora academics in Africa in reshaping international higher education. In Deborah Lock, Andrea Caputo, Paul Igwe, Dieu Hack-Polay (Eds) Borderlands: The Internationalisation of Higher Education Teaching Practices, (pp. 31-43) Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature:

George, V; Jacobs, L. & Hodges, M. 2022. Virtual Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Development in Higher Education Projects: Lessons for the Future. In N Popov, C Wolhuter, L de Beer, G Hilton, J Ogunleye, E Achinewhu-Nworgu & E Niemczyk (Eds), Towards the Next Epoch of Education, BCES Conference Books, 20:25-31.  

Wolhuter, C.C. & Jacobs, L. 2022. The COVID-19 Pandemic as Potential Catalyst for Comparative and International Education. In Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 42B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792022000042B001

My work is grounded in Comparative and International Education.  I focus on access to, and inclusion in, education opportunities at different levels, and on the barriers that obstruct access and inclusion. My current interest within this broader theme, is on inclusive internationalisation in higher education.

Comparative and International Education

Internationalisation of Higher Education

Inclusive Education Opportunities