Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS)
SAFA D-Licence certificate ceremony held at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences
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
Institute for Social and Health Science's No Paraffin! Campaign off to a good start at Sharicrest Primary
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
Thembelihle and Lenasia women: shaping our future, a discussion of the intricacies of womenship
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
Call for Papers Social and Health Sciences (SaHS) Journal Special Issue: Gender, Sexualities and Place: (Re)imagining and (Re)making Urban Spaces
The Social and Health Sciences (SaHS) journal invites proposals for a special issue entitled Gender, Sexualities and Place: (Re)imagining and (Re)making Urban Spaces with guest editors Tamara Shefer and Alan Mabin. Read more
ISHS scholars form part of special issue of the Review of General Psychology
A special issue of the Review of General Psychology, entitled Decolonial Perspectives in (and on) Psychology is now available and features scholars from Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS). Read more
Call for Papers Social and Health Sciences (SaHS) Journal Special Issue: Inclusive Energy Transitions for the South
The Social and Health Sciences (SaHS) journal invites submissions from the broader Global South, as well as the Global North for a special issue entitled Inclusive Energy Transitions for the South. Read more
Prof Shahnaaz Suffla from the ISHS inaugurated as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa PsySSA
Professor Shahnaaz Suffla from the Institute of Social and Health Sciences, a flagship Institute of the College for Human Sciences, was inaugurated as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa PsySSA) on the 16th November 2021. Read more
Unisa adds academic muscle to safe energy campaign
Delivering his inaugural address, Prof Ashley van Niekerk from the ISHS said that "No Paraffin!" had been launched by the university in partnership with ASSAf to contribute to SA's accelerated transition to affordable and modern energy to prioritise the needs of socio-economically impoverished communities. Read more
Find our collectiveness to realise our humanness
“As history wrestles with us, we must wrestle with history in the present, for the imagined future.” This sentiment, shared by poet, storyteller, theatre-maker and researcher, Ongezwa Mbele from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, aptly summarises the discussions that took place at the 16th Annual Peace, Safety and Human Rights Memorial Lecture. Read more