Education

•  Schools as enabling spaces for the improvement of quality of life for primary school children living in rural South Africa: Prof Liesel Ebersöhn and Prof Qing Gu (University College London)

• Quality Talk – South Africa: Prof Karen Murphy (PennState, USA), Marisa Leask & Dr Funke Omidire

• Schools as Enabling Spaces (SES) – South Africa: Prof Liesel Ebersöhn & Dr Surette van Staden

• Teacher Resilience Labs

• UNESCO inception workshop on social and emotional learning (11 & 12 February 2021). Prof. Liesel Ebersöhn; Dr. Mokgaetji Somo 

• Primary learners’ multilingualism intervention: Exploring the utilisation of multiple languages for teaching and learning. F. Omidire.

• One Health Lessons: One Health Education task force. L. Ebersöhn; S. de Jager; D. Thomson; T. Kelly. 

Humanities

• Building Resilience in Families: The role of care workers in mitigating family risk factors: Prof Motlalepule Ruth Mampane

• The Wellbeing Project. Intergenerational trauma as lens for social change, international case studies and landscape scan: The Being and Transforming Think Tank’s work on Intergenerational Trauma, Georgetown University. Prof. Liesel Ebersöhn; Dr. Lindokuhle; Dr. Mokgaetji Somo

• Promoting the psychosocial well-being and resilience of young people in South Africa in response to the Covid-19 pandemic (NYRI). R. Mampane; F. Omidire; L. Ebersöhn.

• Youth Resilience in the face of C-19. L.C. Theron; M. Ungar; G. Brown.

• Adolescent resilience to environmental and socioeconomic challenges: A study of multiple systems. [Short title: RYSE-RuSA]. L.C. Theron; M. Ungar; A. Macknach; R. Moletsane; T. Jefferis; I. Muller.

• Digital pathways of resilience in South African youth. L.C. Theron; T. Tufte; S. Haffejee.

• Resilience in contexts of oil and gas production and consumption. L.C. Theron; M. Ungar; R. Cox; A. Quinlan.

• Project of demarginalizing stigmatized identities for individuals with HIV-AIDS: CSR-Partners, Dean of Education and Fordham University Graduate School of Education (GSE). L. Ebersöhn; J. Maritz; P. Brouard; V. Roach; E.C. Chen.

• Determinants of family and school-going youths’ resilience. M.R. Mampane.

• Applying the TEARS innovation to an intervention with child-parent pairs in a resource-constrained context, in support of a healthy lifestyle and holistic well-being. P. du Toit; R. Ferreira; G. Gerricke; K. Botha; N. de Villiers; R. Swart.

• A One Health approach to optimising health advice in resource-constrained communities: Proof of Concept. L. Ebersöhn; O. Jiaqing; L. Blumberg; G. Matope; J. Fafetine; D. Abernethy; M. Visser; B. Adams.

Health

• UNICEF - Future Africa -1 HOPE:  Youth Empowerment and Health/Economic Responses (to COVID-19). YEaH

• Youth sport participation as resilience-enabling pathway that promotes positive educational as well as subjective and objective health and wellbeing outcomes despite severe structural 

• Disparity: Dr. Paola Wood, Prof. Liesel Ebersöhn, Dr. Jill Borressen and Janine Botha

• Caring for the carers: Prof. Derick de Jongh, Prof. Tanya Heyns  and Dr. Petrus de Kock

• Reducing Risk and Promoting Health Among Vulnerable Teens and their Families in the Context of COVID-19: A Multisite National and International Implementation and Evaluation Study. L.C Theron; M. Moretti; L. Barone; J. Gallegos; F. Osman; D. Pasalich; K. Pascuzzo; P. Ranahan.

• Health-related fitness of South African primary school children. R. Ferreira; K. Botha; P. du Toit; V. Nortje; M. Kleynhans; A. Rood.

• The impact of exercise and nutrition science education on the development of brain and body agility in University students. P. du Toit; Y. Hlophe; A. Vermeulen; T. Vermeulen; B. Kleynhans; N. Coetzee.

• Influence of Brain and Body Agility training on the Cognitive Skills of school children. P. du Toit; P. Mabeta; A. Vermeulen; T. Vermeulen; I. Sipsma; G. Johnson.

• Trajectories of Physical Fitness Measures Between Different Working Populations and The Use of Resilience as an Indicator of Cardiovascular Disease Risk. P. du Toit; M. Kleynhans; V. Nortje; D. Holtzhausen; D. Tihale.

• Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI). L. Ebersöhn; M. Graham; M. Bandeira; L. Mudukunye.

• Supporting children’s holistic well-being by means of a health promoting intervention. R. Ferreira

Theology

• Theology: Prof Stephan de Beer

Previous Research Projects