Biography

Dr. Damaris Kariuki is a faculty member and researcher at the Department of Educational Management, Policy & Curriculum Studies School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Kenyatta University. She holds a doctoral degree in educational management. Her career life, spanning over twenty years has been in the education space as a teacher, school administrator and teacher educator with invaluable knowledge, skills and experience on educational issues. Kariuki is engaged in research and consultancy on teacher professional development, education for sustainable development, transferable skills and employability, gender and STEM among others. She has been a researcher on transferable skills in the Kenyatta University Women Economic Empowerment project, the Co-project Lead for leadership for education for sustainable development (Lead ESD) a regional capacity building programme for educators and policy makers, co-project lead on distributed leadership in schools project and researcher in STEM and peer mentorship project. Dr. Kariuki is a highly professional and dedicated teacher educator with great passion for teaching, positively impacting lives and mentoring the next generation.