Dr Sweta Patnaik is a Senior Lecturer, Teaching & Learning coordinator and Curriculum Officer in the Department of Clothing and Textile Technology, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at CPUT, Cape Town. She has years of experience when it comes to teaching and learning and curriculum development. She has developed various undergrad and post grad qualifications including Master’s & PhD students. Her research interests are around waste management, technopreneurship, sustainability, e-learning and supply chain management which she publishes nationally and internationally. She has earned multimillion rand research funding from various national platforms including Dept of Science and Innovation, National Research Foundation and CSIR. She has received NRF Y2 rating from National Research Foundation as an internationally established researcher within under 40 category. She has won the Nelson Mandela University Alumni Rising Star Award 2020 as well as the first recipient of the prestigious DAAD UNILEAD scholarship 2021 in her current institution CPUT. She is the recipient of Institutional Teaching Excellence Award 2022. She is the Editorial Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education and member of the ISO South African Bureau of Standards committee. She has been working in various entrepreneurship projects and have been recently in 2022 and 2023 won various category awards through them at the European Conference of eLearning (eLearning excellence category awards), Brighton, UK and European Conference of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Award), Portugal, respectively.