Clinton Rautenbach

An accomplished researcher, educator, and ethical systems designer dedicated to leveraging interdisciplinary expertise in qualitative research, digital humanities, and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive ethical innovation, social justice, and transformative education in academia and public-sector consulting roles.

• Ethics and Governance of AI for Health – WHO
• Inequality Monitoring in SRMNCAH – WHO (Applied to research ethics and social determinants)

Journal Articles

• Lafferty, L., Rautenbach, C., McNulty, A., Ryder, N., Slattery, C., Houghton, R., Kenigsberg, A., Murray, C., Carrington, N., & Patel, P. (2024). Client and staff perceptions of acceptability of MyCheck: A direct-to-pathology telehealth and e-testing service for comprehensive bloodborne virus and sexually transmissible infection screening. Sexual Health, 21(SH23194). https://doi.org/10.1071/SH23194.
• Rautenbach, C., Lindegger, G., Slack, C., Wallace, M., & Newman, P. (2015). “I’m positive, but I’m negative”: Competing voices in informed consent and implications for HIV vaccine trials. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 10(2), 151–156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264615575509
• Rautenbach, C., Lindegger, G., Slack, C., Newman, P., & Wallace, M. (2014). Participants’ models of HIV vaccine trial-related concepts: The dilemma of trust for the informed consent process. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 30(S1), A123–A124. https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2014.5239.abstract

Book Chapters

• Durrheim, K., Rautenbach, C., Nicholson, T., & Dixon, J. (2013). Displacing place identity: Introducing an analytics of participation. In B. Gardner & F. Winddance Twine (Eds.), Geographies of privilege (pp. 43–71). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203070833
• Rautenbach, C. (Forthcoming). “A nose for the vibe”: Affect-theory-making and praxis for “affect sensors” from, in, and of the Global South. In P. Kiguwa, N. Nkomo, & M. Mathebula (Eds.), Critical affect studies: Articulations, embodiments & performances – Global South dialogues. Routledge.

Conference Presentations

• Durrheim, K., & Rautenbach, C. (2023, March 8–10). Resources and opportunities for learning and teaching digital and computational skills [Conference presentation]. DH-IGNITE Western Cape, Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, South Africa.
• Durrheim, K., & Rautenbach, C. (2022, October 18–19). Resources and opportunities for learning and teaching digital and computational skills [Conference presentation]. DH-IGNITE KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C. (2014, September). “It’s the vibe”: How the (racial) subject is affected in South African nightclubs. UKZN College of Humanities Annual Postgraduate Conference, Durban, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C. (2013, October). “It’s the vibe”: How the (racial) subject is affected in South African nightclubs. UKZN College of Humanities Annual Postgraduate Conference, Howard College, UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C., Lindegger, G., Slack, C., Wallace, M., & Newman, P. (2014, September). Stakeholder models of HIV vaccine trial-related concepts: The dilemma of trust for the informed consent process. HIV RAP Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C., Slack, C., & Lindegger, G. (2014, February). Enhancing comprehension for informed consent in HIV vaccine trials: Exploring mental models and lay/indigenous theories of HIV vaccine trial concepts in South Africa. CHVI-ACO Virtual Mini Symposium of the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative.
• Rautenbach, C., Lindegger, G., & Slack, C. (2013, January). Informed consent in HIV vaccine trials. Afri-Can Forum: Special Synchronicity Forum of CHVI-Funded Canadian and African Prevention and Vaccine Teams, Entebbe, Uganda.
• Rautenbach, C. (2012, July). “It’s the vibe”: Race, space, practice, and subjectivity in South African nightclubs. International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C. (2012, July). “Club culture: Race, space, practice & subjectivity in South African nightclubs”. Race, Power & Indigenous Knowledge Systems Conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C. (2011, September). “Club culture: Race, space, practice & subjectivity in South African nightclubs”. 17th South African Psychology Congress (PsySSA), Emperor’s Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Rautenbach, C., & Lindegger, G. (2010, August). Challenges of masculinity in schools. The Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa (ISASA) Proudly Primary Conference, Durban, South Africa.