Nola Redelinghuys holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of the Free State (UFS). Until 2015, she was a senior lecturer in Sociology at the UFS, specialising in Environmental Sociology. She subsequently ventured into the private sector to take a position as a business development consultant and held this position from 2016-2023. Currently, she is a senior researcher at the Centre for Digital Futures (ICDF) and a research associate at the Department of Sociology. Her current research focuses on the social and environmental implications of digital technologies and digital well-being and labour. Some of her recent publications include: 

• Goodrick WF & Redelinghuys N. 2023. Hydraulic fracturing as an environmental and social justice issue in South Africa. In Devendraraj M, Beer CT, Nikku BR, & Pelser AJ (eds.). Environment, climate, and social justice - perspectives and practices from the Global South. Singapore: Springer Nature.
  Esterhuyse S, Redelinghuys N. Charvet P., Fearnside F, Daga V., Braga R., Okello W, Vitule J., Verheyen E. Van Steenberge M. 2023. Effects of hydrocarbon extraction on freshwaters. In Likens, G. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (2nd Edition). 
• Esterhuyse S, Avenant M, Redelinghuys N, Kijko A, Glazewski J, Plit, L, Kemp ME, Smit A and Vos AT. 2018. Monitoring of unconventional oil and gas extraction and its policy implications: A case study from South Africa. Energy Policy, 118(C), pp 109-120.
• Esterhuyse, S, Sokolic F, Redelinghuys N, Avenant M, Kijko A, Glazewski J, Plit L, Kemp M, Smit A, Vos T, Von Maltitz M. 2017. Vulnerability mapping as a tool to manage the environmental impacts of oil and gas extraction. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171044.

• The social and environmental implications of digital technologies
• Digital well-being and labour
• Population-environment-development linkages