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Professor Raisuyah Bhagwan
Department of Community Health Studies
Faculty of Health Sciences
Raisuyah Bhagwan, is a Full Professor in the Department of Community Health Studies, at Durban University of Technology.
She is also a National Research Foundation (NRF), C2 rated researcher. She is passionate about issues of social justice, community development, spirituality and indigenous knowledge systems and has published extensively on these topics. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work and Social Work Practitioner-Researcher. Professor Bhagwan was a recipient of the NRF Community Engagement Grant in 2015,
the CHE-HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching Award in 2018. She was also one of the few recipients of the NRF-SAASTA Grant: Science Shops under The Science Engagement Strategy, in 2022 awarded by NRF and Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) to conduct inclusive community-based research under the science shop model. Her project focuses on reconstructing more holistic and safer spaces in a village in Ndwedwe, in KwaZulu-Natal.
“She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work and Social Work Practitioner-Researcher. ”
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