Centre for the Advancement of Social Impact and Transformation
What we do
Management: strategy, policy and governance
We facilitate the review and development of the Transformation and the Social Impact policies and strategy to ensure efficient implementation within the institution.
Partnerships and engagements
This function supports and facilitates the quintuple helix approach which emphasises knowledge democracy, by adding an environmental emphasis as critical drivers for knowledge creation and innovation. It focusses on university- industry- government relations, including media- and culture- based public and civil society and the environment. This is done through building and maintaining relationships, with the aim of facilitating collaborations around shared interests.
Knowledge exchange and scholarship
We facilitate and support engaged scholarship, which includes engaged research and engaged teaching and learning. This is done through capacity building workshops for academic staff and senior postgraduate students, on the principles and practice of engaged scholarship, peer to peer learning, case studies, knowledge exchange, funding opportunities, consulting, proposal development, faculty support and reviewing.
Training and development
We use social impact and transformation theories and best practices to assist, encourage, and enable staff and students to develop social impact and transformation initiatives.