16 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021 • Prof Rasool co-organised and presented at the symposium on enablers of Gender SexualOrientation Based violence in the Health Sciences domain. Prof Rasool contributed to a write-up of this event which was included in the UJ Health Sciences newsletter. • Prof Rasool did a study visit and presented a public lecture at the University of Comoros on “Social Inclusion and Development in South Africa: Interventions with Women and Children.” This event featured in a local newspaper. • Prof Rasool organised and chaired a seminar for women’s month on “Is a Feminist and Decolonial Education possible? A discussion with feminist writers of the new book: Surfacing – On being Black and Feminist in South Africa”. • Prof Rasool organised and co-facilitated with Ms Mashigo a multi-country (South Africa, Australia, Britain & Italy) Roundtable on Innovative Strategies for Teaching and Learning Field Practice Online. • Prof Rasool presented at the SCIINOV intercontinental conference on gender and sexuality studies on “Women’s role in academia: International Experiences and Perspectives”. • Prof Rasool presented co-organised and presented at the International Conference on Gender Mainstreaming- Global Perspectives hosted by the Bombay Teachers Training College, • Prof Rasool presented with Dr Linda Smith at Glasgow Caledonian conference – What social work needs now, on “Radical decoloniality, imagination and surrealism as process and method to achieve new contextual theory towards critical posthumanist perspectives”. • Prof Rasool was on a panel for International Education Week at Bridgewater State University USA on “Women’s Role in Education: International Experiences and Perspectives”. • Prof van Breda co-hosted the Global INTRAC conference for scholars researching the transition out of care in Switzerland. • Prof van Breda organised an international webinar with U21 and ASSWA on community work in social work, at which Prof Nel, Prof Raniga, Dr Turton and Ms Ditlhake presented papers. • Prof van Breda presented a paper on global dialogue on policy, practice and research concerning extended care in Ireland/UK and South Africa. • Prof van Breda presented on resilience-based policy frameworks at the Resilio conference in Cameroon. • Prof van Breda presented two resilience theory lectures for students studying in Europe. • Prof van Breda was a keynote speaker at the IFSW conference in Rwanda, speaking on Ubuntu resilience towards achieving sustainable development goals. • Prof van Breda was invited to host a symposium on child and youth resilience in Switzerland. • Prof. Rasool presented a keynote at the conference hosted by the Mother Teresa Women’s University, Department and Centre for Womens studies, India on “Shifting Gender Inequality.” Staff are increasingly visible in publishing and editing academic texts and special issues, for example: • Dr Nadesan and Dr Baikady are co-editors of various academic texts: (1) Springer Nature Reference Living Edition called the Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems; (2) the Routledge Handbook of Fieldwork Education in Social Work. Dr Nadesan also serves on the editorial boards for the Springer Series on International Social Work and Springer Briefs on International Social Work. • Dr Turton is an associate editor on the Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development. • Prof Raniga is Chair of the Editorial Board of the Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development. • Prof Rasool was editor of a special issue for the journal Gender Issues based on the Gender and Sexuality conference. • Prof van Breda co-edited a special issue of Child Abuse & Neglect on multisystemic resilience in subSaharan Africa. • Prof van Breda is co-editing a book on innovative research on leaving care authored by emerging scholars from across the globe. • Prof van Breda is editor of the Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development. • Prof van Breda led a team of 10 international scholars for a comparative study on extended care. Students of the department have also demonstrated their excellence, for example: • Aphiwe Somabhele, CDL H INT, submitted his Project Implementation Report, for the Best Honours Essay/ Reflection and won. He also won a prize for the best faculty assistant in 2021. • Lucia Mogale, a 4th year social work student, presented on students’ experiences of gender-based violence on campus and possible interventions at the at the symposium on Enablers of Gender SexualOrientation Based Violence in the Health Sciences Domain.
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