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Prof Shahana Rasool

HOD – Department of Social Work and Community Development
Name: Shahana Rasool
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Contact Details:

Email: shahanar@uj.ac.za

About Prof Shahana Rasool

Prof Shahana Rasool is the HOD of the Department of Social Work and Community Development. Shahana is passionate about making a difference in society and challenging social injustice. Her work has focused on alleviating gender-based violence and understanding gender inequality. In the field of education, she has been concerned with transforming social work education from a decolonial and feminist lens.

Professional Associations:

  • Registered with the South African Council for Social Service Professions as a social worker, registration number 10-17740.
  • Vice President of Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa (ASSWA) -2019-2023
  • Africa representative on the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) 2019-2023
  • Vice President of the Asian-African Association of Women, Gender & Sexuality (AAAWG).
  • Member of the Senate academic freedom committee at UJ

Academic Partnerships:

  • Abeer Musleh, Bethlehem University
  • Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg – student and staff exchanges – Transdisciplinary intercultural International Partnership Project (funded)
  • Teaching at Vives School of Applied Social Sciences, Belgium
  • Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile
  • Tanja Kleibl, MA Programme Director: International Social Work with Refugees and Migrants, UAS Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS),Faculty for Applied Social Sciences (FAS)’
  • Sunday (Westfield State Uni – USA)- comparative research bet Nigeria and South Africa on adolescent gender attitudes and sexual harassment on campus (UJ funded).
  • Joint research with University College London (Prof. Ahmed and Prof. Burgess), SHM foundation, POHLA and Afrika Tikkun (Global health fund Naghton/Cliff Matthews £5 000) –implement and evaluate courage intervention with women victims of trauma and violence.

2019-Current University of Johannesburg, Social Work

Full Professor:

  • Reinventing and improving the Masters research, social issues and theory courses to improve throughput.
  • Developing and sustaining international and regional collaboration to increase the international stature and exposure of the university.
  • Teaching Masters Research, Masters Social Issues, First-year social issues, Masters theory online.
  • Co-ordinator of seminars
  • International liaison

URL: johannesburg.academia.edu

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