Joha Louw-Potgieter
Joha Louw-Potgieter is a Professor Emerita in the School of Management Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. She holds a Master’s (Psychology) from Stellenbosch University (SU), a Doctorandus Psychologiae from Leiden University, and a DPhil from the University of Bristol.She initiated a Master’s Programme in Monitoring and Evaluation within UCT’s Section of Organisational Psychology in 2007. This programme has grown substantially in terms of student numbers and is popular with South African students and students from elsewhere in Africa. Prof. Louw-Potgieter was the course convener of this programme. She taught monitoring and programme theory on it. She also taught a course, Introduction to Programme Evaluation, on the MPhil Research Methodology programme at SU.
In 2012, as guest editor of the South African Journal of Human Resource Development, she led the publication of 9 peer-reviewed articles in human resource programme evaluation. She has published in journals such as The South African Journal of Science, The African Journal of Legal Studies, Social Work and The Small Business Monitor. She is a National Research Foundation (NRF)-rated researcher in the discipline of programme evaluation. In 2007, in collaboration with Stewart Donaldson, she initiated a formal staff and student exchange programme with the Social Science, Policy and Evaluation School at Claremont Graduate University, USA.
In 2007, Prof Louw-Potgieter established the Institute of Monitoring and Evaluation at UCT. The main activities of the institute are to present short courses and to undertake contract research and evaluations. She has presented numerous public short courses and led various commissioned evaluations.
Keywords: South Africa, programme evaluation, University of Cape Town, literacy programmes.
Recent publications:
*Boodhoo, A. & Louw- Potgieter, J., 2020, ‘Evaluability perspectives: An empirical investigation of programme evaluability in different practice contexts’, African Evaluation Journal 8(1), a434.
Zuma, M., Boodhoo, A. & Louw-Potgieter, J., 2019, ‘Measuring the outcomes of a literacy programme in no-fee schools in Cape Town’, South African Journal of Childhood Education 9(1), a677.
*Grigg, D., Joffe,J., Okeyo, A., Schkolne, D., van der Merwe, N., Zuma, M., Mulenga, C., Boodhoo, A., Louw-Potgieter, J. (2016). The role of monitoring and evaluation in six South African reading programmes.South African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 34(4),359–370.
*Tredoux, C., Louw, J., Louw-Potgieter, J. (2016). Mobile phones and reading for enjoyment; Evidence of use and behaviour change. The Journal of Community Informatics, 12(1), 92-105.
Louw, J., & Louw-Potgieter, J. (2015). Mobile phone technology and reading
behaviour: Commentary on the FunDza programme. The African Journal of Information and Communication, 15, 120-122.
*Chapman, S., Catala, L., Mauduit, J-C., Govender, K., & Louw-Potgieter, J. (2015). Monitoring and evaluating astronomy outreach programmes: Challenges and solutions. South African Jounal of Science, 111 (5/6), Art. #2014-0112, 9 pages.
Reichard, R., Dolwet, M., & Louw-Potgieter, J. (2014). Development of cross-cultural psychological capital and its relationship with cultural intelligence and ethnocentrism. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 21(2),150 - 164.