HSRC Integrated Annual Report 2018/2019

Prof. Swartz is an adjunct associate professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town and also has a growing association with the Philosophy Department at theUniversity of Fort Hare. Her research focuses on ‘navigational capacities’ for the just inclusion of young people in a transforming society and in the Global South, alongside the role of progressive moral education and dialogue to bring about social change. Prof. Swartz writes extensively about decolonising and emancipatory practices in education and research. Prof. Swartz holds undergraduate degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Zululand, as well as an MEd from Harvard University in the USA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (UK). In the UK, she participated in a Department for International Development project investigating the role of education on alleviating poverty. She was also a researcher on a national review of primary school education. Her PhD thesis, in the sociology of education, considered how young people who live in poverty, understand, represent and enact morality. Before embarking on her graduate studies, she spent 12 years at a youth NGOwhere she pioneered peer-led social justice and life skills education programmes. She joined the HSRC in 2008 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Prof. Sharlene Swartz Executive Director: ESD Prof. Bohler-Muller is the executive director: DGSD and an adjunct professor at the University of Fort Hare. She is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa, and is leading the Blue Economy Core Group of the Indian Ocean Rim Association. Her research interests include international and constitutional law, human rights, democracy, governance and social justice. Her largest project with the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Constitutional Justice Project, has been positively received. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the position of Public Protector. Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller Executive Director: DGSD HSRC INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 / 59