Health, especially the Forensic Pathology Services from Mpumalanga, and more recently those from Limpopo, North-West and Gauteng, are collaborating to enhance data collection technology, Read more

Two of the six foundational principles held by the Unisa Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) are Community: Building Solidarity; and Citizenship: Participating in Public Life. This is what the Institute continually strives to do with much of its work centering on the community. Read more

The Lecture Series, which continuously evolves, seeks to highlight the new frontiers and challenges facing the culture of democracy, peace, safety and human rights in South Africa and globally, said Chair of the event, Professor Shahnaaz Suffla (Unisa ISHS, PsySSA). Read more

MDPI, a publisher of open access scientific journals will publish a special issue entitled: Advances in Pediatric Burn Injury Research: Diagnosis, Management and Care. This special issue will highlight advances in pediatric burn injury research that report on (i) recent innovations in child burn assessment and diagnostics and (ii) the current advances in management, rehabilitation, and recovery support practices, while (iii) noting the implications of this research for treatment and prevention practices where the burden is the greatest. Read more

Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences’ (ISHS) Friendship and Hope Campaign (FaHC) hosted its second event of the year in the form of a soccer tournament which occurred in Thembelihle. Read more

The Unisa Institute for Social and Health Sciences’ No Paraffin! Campaign started off on a high note at Sharicrest Primary, a school in Thembelihle, South of Johannesburg. The Campaign is a call for an expedited transition to safe and affordable energy that prioritizes the needs of energy impoverished communities. Read more

Improving and encouraging safe energy use is crucial to reducing fires, burn fatalities and injuries. With the cold and wet winter season upon us in South Africa, we have already started to see a rise in fires and its devastating consequences, ranging from injury to the loss of life, to the loss of property; and leaving many families and communities suffering and often stranded. Read more

Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences’ (ISHS) Friendship and Hope Campaign commenced with its first social cohesion event for 2022. The Women's Day-related event was hosted in partnership with Imbumbe Yabafazi on 20 August 2022. The Friendship and Hope Campaign aims to create social connections and foster social cohesion amongst the Thembelihle and Lenasia community in Johannesburg South’s Region G. Read more

Our traumas do not define us. Uhuru, ubuntu and ujamaa have become crucial for pushing back against internalised oppression and reclaiming a sense of self and belonging. They can help us move beyond trauma towards healing. Read more

The Community Psychology book series is envisaged as a space to review the established assumptions and knowledge economy underlying community psychology, and encourage writings that recognise the plurality of people and the many geographical, psychological and sociological locations that they occupy. The book series will enable contributors to stimulate thought that questions that which is constructed as critical knowledges, community psychology, and the meanings of liberation and community. Read more