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 2024 Unisa’s colleges host 151 active development projects linked to the goals and aspirations of the NDP, Agenda 2063 and the SDGs.
College Engaged Scholarship Projects 2024
| College of Human Sciences (CHS) |
College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS) |
College of Education (CEDU) |
- A Framework for Teaching
- ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project)
- Meal of Peace
- UNISA Cares
- Towards LGBTI+ Health and Well-being
- Revitalisation and Recontextualization of English Curriculum in TVET Colleges
- 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).
- Gauteng Arts and Culture Teachers’ Professional Development
- Skills Training for History Teachers in the Free State, Limpopo and North West Province
- Development of School Libraries
- Communication Review
- Enhancing HIV Prevention Among Learners in Limpopo
- Storytelling and the preservation of cultural heritage
- Unisa Care for the Older Persons
- Computer and Information Literacy
- Communication Strategy Planning Training
- Research Support and Development: Creating a Research Culture
- Advocacy for Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
- School Health and vulnerable groups
- Inside out, outside in South African Corrections Interest Groups
- Soshanguve Practical Placements
- School Health and Vulnerable Groups
- Skills for Editors and Translators
- Skills Training for Corpus Building and Presentation
- Decolonising archives: Building an Inclusive Archive at the Gauteng Provincial Archives Repository
- GetOn Community Outreach project
- Bana Ba Tiileng
- Sustainable records management practice in the aviation sector
- Creation, distribution, and preservation of Open Educational Resources in underprivilege schools of KwaZulu Natal”
- Re Aga Mmogo: Digital Media Literacy Awareness Project
- Student support: Technology-integrated teaching and learning in an ODeL university
- Oral traditions and history of the Bakgatla baga Mosetlha at Makapanstad
- Anatomically Correct Models for Visually Impaired Learners: Teachers’ Capacitation
- School belonging to improve academic performance
- Career Guidance and Cybersecurity Awareness
- Motswedi wa letshego le thuto-botlhale
- Empowering Communities through scientific research and innovation
- Botho Bathong
- Student Engagement: Care-Based Interaction in ODL Pre- and Post Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Ratanang Project
- Faith Leaders Gender Transformation Programme (FLGTP)
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- Lesedi La Tsela
- Terminology Hub
- Entrepreneurship Hub(E-Hub)
- Empowerment of SMEs Guesthouse Management
- Financial Literacy
- CFA Research Challenge
- West- and Far West Rand municipalities
- Moves for Life
- Sustainable Tourism in the Marico Biosphere Reserve
- Studentpreneurship Development
- Unlocking the Human Resource Management (HRM) Potential for NGOs
- Khulisa Abantu
- Phelindaba High School
- Tourism Capacity Building
- Operational Risk Interest Group
- Numerical skills for business
- Improving employability of Master’s students via internship supervision
- Business Education and Skills
- SMMEs managerial skills transfer
- Cattle Dog
- Women Empowerment Through Financial Inclusion
- Mathematics Skills Enhancement MOOC: Empowering Students for Success in Economics and Beyond
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- Academic Support and BEd Foundation Phase students: Teaching Reading and Mathematics in the Foundation Phase
- Prison and Special Schools
- Persons with Hearing Loss
- Ilima le Fundo: Strengthening the Teaching of Languages in SA Schools
- School Management Teams as Instructional Leaders in Curriculum Delivery
- Improvement of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Proficiency in Mathematics Teaching & learning: An Intervention Project for Mathematics Teachers
- South African Science and Mathematics project
- Asset Mapping for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
- Empowering of Teachers at PHL Moraka High School
- Embrace our Children: Bramley Project
- ICT Integrated Water Management Curriculum
- A Strategic Intervention in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
- Parent Involvement in Developing Learning Culture in Hlanganani
- Together Making Schools Better
- Senior Phase Natural Sciences Teachers’ Experiences with ADHD and Inquiry-based Classroom Practices
- Assessment and Technology integration in Multigrade Teaching
- Classroom Interaction Pedagogy in Teaching English First Additional Language in the Intermediate Phase
- The Transition of Learners with Intellectual and Learning Impairments into work
- Institutions of Higher Learning: Interventions to Enhance Curriculum Implementation in Schools by Adults (Educators)
- Preparing Teachers to Teach Reading and Writing
- Teaching for Robust Understanding in Mathematics: Resources, Contexts and Opportunities
- Empowerment and Capacity Building with Current and Former Professional Football Players: A Multi-phased Project
- Strengthening the Implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Special Schools
- Kgobakanane Environmental Education for Sustainability
- Widowhood Issues in South Africa (WISA): An Interdisciplinary Approach
- Africanising Mathematics Teaching: Using Ethno-Mathematical Games in Intermediate Phase
- The Use of Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) Model to Improve Teachers’ Delivery of Lessons.
- A systemic Action Learning Approach Using a Community of Practice to Support the Green Circular Economy
- The Effectiveness of School Leadership, Management, and Governance Structures in the Provision of Quality Education in Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Promoting the Effectiveness of Schools through Engaged Scholarship
- 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
- A critical Analysis of Early Childhood/Foundation Phase, Middle Leaders Experiences in Gauteng North District: Exploring Professional Identities and Well Being
- Women Empowerment management skills in Tshwane West school district
- Supporting ‘progressed’ learners, ‘at risk’ learners and teachers in schools in the Limpopo and Northwest Provinces: A Participatory Action Research project
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| College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) |
College of Law (CLAW) |
College of Graduate Studies (CGS) |
- Mothong African Heritage
- Health and Life Skills Training
- Leeto La Africa
- Unisa Nature Conservation – Magagamatala Engaged Scholarship Initiative
- Daveyton Hub
- Responsible landfill waste management and reclamation: environmental and health risks awareness and training
- Eco household & Green living
- Urban Agriculture
- 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
- Assessing the socio-economic, health and environmental impacts of the Jindal mine in Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal: A comprehensive study
- Standard Development-South African women 3D scanned data
- Engaged Scholarship: UWF/SAWID/CSET/Chance 2 Advance
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- Community Safety Networks
- Biotechnology and Medical Law
- Road Safety
- Street Law
- Learner Research Summit
- Student Debate and Indaba
- Moot Courts
- An Evaluation of the Pluralisation of Street Policing in South Africa
- Engaged Writing Retreat
- Research on the Feasibility/Efficacy of Land Registration in a communal land ownership set-up and its socio-economic implications
- Tshokollo ya Setšhabeng (Corrections in the Community)
- Youth Network
- Practical Legal Training
- Dikoma (Customary Initiation Practices): Indigenous Knowledges on the rites of passage into Bosadi and Bonna
- Civic and Voter Education Law
- Scholar Transport Safety
- Pro Bono Legal advise workshops to communities
- Childhood substance use, abuse and addiction: An analysis of South African risk and protective factors
- The effectiveness of the South African correctional risk classification tools for offenders to predict future criminal behaviour
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- 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
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| College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) |
College of Accounting Sciences (CAS) |
Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL)
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- Inspired Towards Science, Engineering and Technology (I-SET)
- Application of Sustainable Technologies for Rural Africa (ASTRA)
- Waste to Energy
- ScienceEdge
- Computing for Communities (C4C)
- Sustainable Nanotechnology Solutions for Rural Communities
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- 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)
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- Bridges of Hope
- SBL Business Hub
- The Banking Volunteer Programme for Rural Urban Global Business Skills Transfer
- Digital and Complementary Skills in Society (DCSS)
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| Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs |
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- Lekgotla La Batho Research
- Community Asset Mapping Program (Camp)
- Electoral Dispute Resolution
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