Community Engagement and Outreach
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 2025 Unisa’s colleges host 181 active development projects linked to the goals and aspirations of the NDP, Agenda 2063 and the SDGs.
College Engaged Scholarship Projects 2025
College of Accounting Sciences
- Polokwane Rural Schools
- Winning Schools Project
- Maths, English, Accounting Tutorials
- Facebook - Internal Auditing Student Association
- TaxPod
- Research on Audit Committees South Africa (RACSA)
- Lifelong Learning for Accountancy Professionals in Accounting Sciences Field
- Continuous Auditing for Public Sector Internal Auditing (CAPIA)
- Unisa Online Tax Clinic (UOTC)
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
- Inclusive school-based tower-gardens and sustainable water conservation practices: upscaling proper nutrition and biomonitoring through the citizen science programmes in Three biosphere reserve.
- Assessing Communal Farmers' Knowledge of Tick Control Methods In South Africa
- Spatial Citizenship for Community Empowerment
- Project Bright Green
- Integrating Scientific Methods for Sustainable Ecohydrology and Socio-Economic Development
- Supplying New Banana Varieties to empower small scale farmers in South Africa
- Restoration and Conservation of the Grassland Biome in the Eastern Cape Drakensberg
- CAES-DES and the Dinokeng Game Reserve (DGR) and Community
- Sudwala caves exploration engagement
- Impact and Awareness of Plastic Waste in Aquatic Environments of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
- Urban Agriculture project
- Mothong African Heritage Project
- Daveyton hub
- Responsible landfill waste management and reclamation: environmental and health risks awareness and training
- UNISA Nature Conservation - Magagamatala CE initiative
- Health and Life Skills Training
- Eco households and green living
- Leeto-La-Africa
- Standard Development-South African women 3D scanned data
College of Economic and Management Sciences
- EmpowerHER Ventures: igniting women entrepreneurial mindsets
- StudentPreneurship Development
- Improving the resilience and coping of Master’s students to enhance their employability as Industrial Psychologists
- SMMEs managerial skills transfer
- Tools for Future Economists
- Finance for sustainable development
- Cattle Dog
- Women Empowerment Through Financial Inclusion
- Lesedi La Tsela
- Terminology Hub
- Financial Literacy
- CFA Research Challenge
- Sustainable Tourism in the Marico Biosphere Reserve
- Tourism Capacity Building
- KHULISA ABANTU
- Unlocking the Human Resource Management (HRM) Potential for NGOs
- Operational risk interest group
- West-and Far West Rand municipalities
- Numerical skills for business
- Entrepreneurship Hub (e-Hub)
- Mathematics Skills Enhancement MOOC: Empowering Students for Success in Economics and Beyond
- Phelindaba High School
- Ignitewise
- Business Education and Skills (BES)
- (S@CC) Leadership Development process
- Promoting economic literacy in South African languages
College of Education
- Fostering Health and Well-being in adverse living environment
- Implementing a sustainable intervention strategy for waste management across STEM disciplines in educational settings
- Serving Humanity by Building Sustainable Communities
- Elevating education, together
- Enhancing educational leadership, management, and governance efficacies through collaborations.
- A critical Analysis of Early Childhood/Foundation Phase Middle Leaders Experiences in Gauteng North District: Exploring Professional Identities and Well Being
- 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
- Women Empowerment management skills in Tshwane West school district
- Together Making School Better (TMSB)
- Empowering of teachers at PHL Moraka High School
- Institutions of higher learning’s interventions to enhance curriculum implementation in schools by adults (Educators)
- Senior Phase Natural Science Teachers' experiences with ADHD and Inquiry -based classroom practices
- Assessment and technology integration in Multigrade Teaching
- Academic Support and B.Ed Foundation Phase students: Teaching Reading and Mathematics in the Foundation Phase
- Improvement of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and proficiency in mathematics teaching & learning: An Intervention project for mathematics teachers
- Classroom Interaction Pedagogy in teaching English First Additional Language in the Intermediate Phase
- Prison and Special Schools
- South Africa Science and Mathematics Project
- ICT integrated Water management curriculum
- Transition of learners with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities from special schools to the workplace
- Bramley
- The effectiveness of School Leadership, Management, and Governance Structures in the Provision of Quality Education in Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Strengthening the implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Special Institutions
- The use of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) model to improve teachers’ delivery of lessons.
- A Strategic Intervention in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
- Parent involvement in developing learning culture in Hlanganani
- School management teams as instructional leaders in curriculum delivery
- Promoting the Effectiveness of Schools through Engaged Scholarship
- Support mechanisms for learners experiencing barriers to learning
- Supporting ‘progressed’ learners, ‘at risk’ learners and teachers in schools in the Limpopo and Northwest Provinces: A Participatory Action Research project
- Africanising mathematics teaching: Using ethnomathematical games in the Intermediate Phase
- Asset Mapping for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
- Kgobakanane Education for Sustainability
- The management of learner discipline to combat school violence in Vhembe secondary schools
- Advancing Health Promotion in South African "no fees school": A Community Based Participatory Research Approach
College of Graduate Studies
- Promoting visibility and use of Public Archives in South Africa through public programming
- Child Homelessness: A Social Policy Perspective
- Research Support and Capacity Development of emerging scholars in Higher Education
College of Human Sciences
- Youth Theology Initiative SA
- Social Work Advancement & Skill Enhancement (SWASE)
- Bokamoso Engaged Scholarship Project
- SAWID Women's Leadership
- Bibliotherapy Project
- Re Aga Mmogo: Digital Media Literacy Awareness Project
- Developmental school sexual health for visually impaired learners
- Faith Leaders Gender Transformation Programme (FLGTP)
- School belonging to improve academic performance
- Career Guidance and Cybersecurity Awareness
- Creation, distribution, and preservation of Open Educational Resources in underprivilege schools
- Navigation Innovation: Advancing Multidisciplinary Research in Air Traffic Management In South Africa
- Empowering Communities through scientific research and innovation
- Ratanang Project
- Motswedi wa letshego le thuto-botlhale
- From Chalkboards to Chatbots: AI Literacy for Educators of the Future?
- ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project)
- UNISA Cares
- Challenging homo/trans/inter-phobias in our society: Gender diverse, and gender none conforming sexual identities ‘LGBTIQA+’ community and Family support
- Towards LGBTI+ Health and Well-being
- Revitalisation and recontextualisation of English curriculum in TVET Colleges
- Communication Review
- Communication Strategy Planning Training for NGOs/NPOs
- GetOn Community Outreach Project
- Gauteng Arts and Culture Teachers’ Professional Development Project
- Inside-out Outside-in South African Corrections Interest Group
- Skills training for editors and translators
- Fostering a research culture and empowering professional growth
- Storytelling and the preservation of cultural heritage
- Decolonising archives: building an inclusive archive at the Gauteng Provincial Archives Repository
- Unisa Care for the older persons
- Advocacy for Diversity, Inclusion, Wellbeing and Information Fluency for Access to Higher Education Opportunities
- Development of School Libraries
- Enhancing HIV Prevention among Learners in Limpopo
- School Health and vulnerable groups
- Skills Training for History Educators in the Free State, Limpopo and North West Province
- Adoption and Visitation of Schools
- Student Engagement: Care-Based Interaction in Odl Pre- and Post Covid-19 Pandemic
- Botho Bathong
- Oral traditions and history of the Bakgatla baga Mosetlha at Makapanstad
- Enhancing Student Success: Technology-integrated Teaching and Learning in an Open Distance e-Learning University
- Meal of Peace
- Soshanguve Practical Placements
- Skills Training for corpus building and presentation
- Computer and Information Literacy
- Bana Ba Tiileng
- Ṱhoḓisiso ya luambo lwa musanda (To investigate and document the Vhavenda royal family language)
- Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Project
- Family based intervention for parents of youth and adolescents with substance use disorder
- Management of Land Records by Traditional Councils in South Africa
- Mveledzo_Bokamoso ba Bacha
- Navigating New Worlds - French and Chinese Speaking Countries
College of Law
- Dikoma (Customary Initiation Practices): Indigenous Knowledges on the rites of passage into Bosadi and Bonna
- Civic and Voter Education Law Project
- Pro Bono Legal advise workshops to communities
- Tshokollo ya Setšhabeng (Corrections in the Community)
- Learner Research Summit
- Writing Retreat
- Street Law
- Community Safety Network
- An Evaluation of the Pluralisation of the Street Policing in South Africa
- Student Debate and Indaba
- The effectiveness of the South African correctional risk classification tools for offenders to predict future criminal behaviour
- Road Safety
- Moot Court
- Community-Based Participatory Action Research on the Feasibility/Efficacy of Land Registration in a communal land ownership set-up and its socio-economic implications: Individual versus People’s Rights
- Youth-Network
- Practical Legal Training
- Biotechnology and Medical Law
- Childhood substance use, abuse and addiction: An analysis of South African risk and protective factors
College of Science, Engineering and Technology
- Mobility Engineering solution
- Computing for Communities (C4C)
- Inspired Towards Science, Engineering and Technology (I-SET)
- Application of Sustainable Technologies for Rural Africa
- ScienceEdge
- Sustainable Nanotechnology Solutions for Rural Communities
- Waste to Energy
Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs
- Makeba Cultural Diplomacy Project
- Lekgotla La Batho Research Project
- Community Asset Mapping Program (CAMP)
- Electoral Dispute Resolution
- Land Use, Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security
- Food/Water/Waste Climate Network
- Child Homelessness: A Social Policy Perspective
Graduate School of Business Leadership
- Bridges of Hope
- SBL Business Hub
- Time Banking Volunteer Programme for Rural-Urban Global Business Skills Transfer
Department: Tuition Support and Facilitation of Learning
- Future Minds Bootcamp: Math-Phys-Agric-Acc-AI Skills
Directorate: Curriculum Development and Transformation
- Integrating Community-Engaged and Service Learning into Research, Teaching and Learning
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