Community Engagement and Outreach

Deploying Engaged Scholarship for Development: 2023 Projects

Unisa joins the monumental efforts required to realize global, national and international development aspirations. Through engaged scholarship we develop the social capital needed for engaged research, engaged teaching, curriculation and theory-making.

Collectively, Unisa's colleges are putting their knowledge and diverse talents to work through a range of innovative and socially responsive projects. Unisa’s engaged colleges work to mobilize social, political, and academic networks for African development collaboration.

Our scholars and intellectuals develop high impact and socially responsive engaged development projects that operate in diverse development contexts.

In 2023 Unisa’s colleges host 119 active development projects linked to the goals and aspirations of the NDP, Agenda 2063 and the SDGs.

College Engaged Scholarship Projects 2023

College of Human Sciences (CHS) College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS) College of Education (CEDU)
  1. A Framework for Teaching
  2. ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project)
  3. Meal of Peace
  4. UNISA Cares
  5. Towards LGBTI+ Health and Well-being
  6. Revitalisation and Recontextualization of English Curriculum in TVET Colleges
  7. Challenging homo/trans/inter-phobias in our society: Gender Diverse, and Gender None Conforming Sexual Identities ‘LGBTIQA+’Ccommunity and Family Support Project in KZN (Durban central & Pietermaritzburg central).    
  8.  Gauteng Arts and Culture Teachers’ Professional Development
  9. Skills Training for History Teachers in the Free State, Limpopo and North West Province
  10. Development of School Libraries
  11. Communication Review
  12. Enhancing HIV Prevention Among Learners in Limpopo
  13. Storytelling and the preservation of cultural heritage
  14. Unisa Care for the Older Persons
  15. Computer and Information Literacy
  16. Communication Strategy Planning Training
  17. Research Support and Development: Creating a Research Culture
  18. Advocacy for Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
  19. School Health and vulnerable groups
  20. Inside out, outside in South African Corrections Interest Groups
  21. Soshanguve Practical Placements
  22. School Health and Vulnerable Groups
  23. Skills for Editors and Translators
  24. Skills Training for Corpus Building and Presentation
  25. Decolonising archives: Building an Inclusive Archive at the Gauteng Provincial Archives Repository
  26. GetOn Community Outreach project
  27. Bana Ba Tiileng
  1. Lesedi La Tsela
  2. Terminology Hub
  3. Entrepreneurship Hub(E-Hub)
  4. Empowerment of SMEs Guesthouse Management
  5. Financial Literacy
  6. CFA Research Challenge
  7. West- and Far West Rand municipalities
  8. Moves for Life
  9. Sustainable Tourism in the Marico Biosphere Reserve
  10. Studentpreneurship Development
  11. Unlocking the Human Resource Management (HRM) Potential for NGOs
  12. Khulisa Abantu
  13. Sisonke
  14. Tourism CapacityBuilding
  15. Operational Risk Interest Group
  16. Numerical skills for business
  17. Improving employability of Master’s students via internship supervision
  1. Academic Support and BEd Foundation Phase students: Teaching Reading and Mathematics in the Foundation Phase
  2. Prison and Special Schools
  3. Persons with Hearing Loss
  4. Ilima le Fundo: Strengthening the Teaching of Languages in SA Schools
  5. School Management Teams as Instructional Leaders in Curriculum Delivery
  6. Improvement of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Proficiency in Mathematics    Teaching & learning: An Intervention Project for Mathematics Teachers
  7. South African Science and Mathematics project
  8. Tateni: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
  9. Empowering of Teachers at PHL Moraka High School
  10. Embrace our Children: Bramley Project
  11. ICT Integrated Water Management Curriculum
  12. A Strategic Intervention in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
  13. Parent Involvement in Developing Learning Culture in Hlanganani
  14. Together Making Schools Better
  15. Senior Phase Natural Sciences Teachers’ Experiences with ADHD and Inquiry-based Classroom Practices
  16. Assessment Practices in Multigrade Teaching
  17. Classroom Interaction Pedagogy in Teaching English First Additional Language in the Intermediate Phase
  18. The Transition of Learners with Intellectual and Learning Impairments into work
  19. Institutions of Higher Learning: Interventions to Enhance Curriculum Implementation in Schools by Adults (Educators)
  20. Bizana Teachers’ Journey with FET Mathematics
  21. Preparing Teachers to Teach Reading and Writing
  22. Teaching for Robust Understanding in Mathematics: Resources, Contexts and Opportunities
  23. Empowerment and Capacity Building with Current and Former Professional Football Players: A Multi-phased Project
  24. Strengthening the Implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Special Schools
  25. Kgobakanane Environmental Education for Sustainability
  26. Widowhood Issues in South Africa (WISA): An Interdisciplinary Approach
  27. Africanising Mathematics Teaching: Using Ethno-Mathematical Games in Intermediate Phase
  28. The Use of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) Model to Improve Teachers’ Delivery of Lessons.
  29. A systemic Action Learning Approach Using a Community of Practice to Support the Green Circular Economy
  30. The Effectiveness of School Leadership, Management, and Governance Structures in the Provision of Quality Education in Limpopo Province, South Africa
  31. Promoting the Effectiveness of Schools through Engaged Scholarship
  32. The i-STEM: An Awareness Programme to Improve the Participation of Girls and Young Women in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, in Motheo District, Free State
  33. A critical Analysis of Early Childhood/Foundation Phase, Middle Leaders Experiences in Gauteng North District: Exploring Professional Identities and Well Being

 
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) College of Law (CLAW) College of Graduate Studies (CGS)
  1. Mothong African Heritage
  2. Health and Life Skills Training
  3. Leeto La Africa
  4. Unisa Nature Conservation – Magagamatala Engaged Scholarship Initiative
  5. Daveyton Hub
  6. Responsible landfill waste management and reclamation: environmental and health risks awareness and training
  7. Eco household & Green living
  8. Urban Agriculture
  9. Engaged Scholarship: UWF/SAWID/CSET/Chance 2 Advance
  1. Lekgotla La Batho Engaged Research Project
  2. Community Safety Networks
  3. Biotechnology and Medical Law
  4. Road Safety
  5. Street Law
  6. Learner Research Summit
  7. Student Debate and Indaba
  8. Moot Courts
  9. An Evaluation of the Pluralisation of Street Policing in South Africa
  10. Engaged Writing Retreat
  11. Research on the Feasibility/Efficacy of Land Registration in a communal land ownership set-up and its socio-economic implications
  12. Tshokollo ya Setšhabeng (Corrections in the Community)
  13. Youth Network
  14. Practical Legal Training
  1. Promoting visibility and use of Public Archives in South Africa through public programming
  2. Child Homelessness: A Social Policy Perspective
College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET)  College of Accounting Sciences (CAS) Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL)
  1. Inspired Towards Science, Engineering and Technology (I-SET)
  2. Application of Sustainable Technologies for Rural Africa (ASTRA)
  3. Waste to Energy
  4. ScienceEdge
  5. Computing for Communities (C4C)
  6. Sustainable Nanotechnology Solutions for Rural Communities
  1. Polokwane Rural Schools
  2. Winning Schools Project
  3. Maths, English, Accounting Tutorials
  4. Facebook - Internal Auditing Student Association
  5. TaxPod
  6. Research on Audit Committees South Africa (RACSA)
  7. Lifelong Learning for Accountancy Professionals in Accounting Sciences Field
  8. Continuous Auditing for Public Sector Internal Auditing (CAPIA)
  1. Bridges of Hope 
  2. SBL Business Hub
  3. The Banking Volunteer Programme for Rural Urban Global Business Skills Transfer

Division: Community Engagement Programme

Last modified: Mon Aug 07 16:42:05 SAST 2023