Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS)
Radical Healing in Communities team hosts a photo-exhibition which explores Nana’s Farm residents’ relationship with the land through the Psycho-politics of Land project
On Saturday, 8 November, the Institute for Social and Health Sciences hosted a photo-exhibition in which residents from Nana’s Farm, in the Region G area of Gauteng presented the photographs that they captured through their participation in the Psycho-politics of Land project. Read more.
Radical Healing in Communities team hosts a photo-exhibition which explores Nana’s Farm residents’ relationship with the land through the Psycho-politics of Land project
On Saturday, 8 November, the Institute for Social and Health Sciences hosted a photo-exhibition in which residents from Nana’s Farm, in the Region G area of Gauteng presented the photographs that they captured through their participation in the Psycho-politics of Land project. Read more.
Kollective struggles: Commemorating decolonial giants centenaries as we drum in revolt.
The Institute of Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) participated in the Black House Kollective (BHK) Annual Decolonial Winter School, which took place in Diepkloof and Sophia Town from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August 2025. Read more.
Kollective struggles: Commemorating decolonial giants centenaries as we drum in revolt.
The Institute of Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) participated in the Black House Kollective (BHK) Annual Decolonial Winter School, which took place in Diepkloof and Sophia Town from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August 2025. Read more.
Black Planetary Studies Water Traditions Symposium
The Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies (CoE for BPS) hosted the Water Traditions Symposium in Mzamba, Eastern Cape, from 15 to 16 April 2025. This stimulating symposium invited local and international academics, practitioners, activists, and doctoral students along the Amadiba Wild Coast to engage in practices of deep learning and meditations on the indigenous and scientific knowledge that we hold about the ocean. Read more.
Black Planetary Studies Water Traditions Symposium
The Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies (CoE for BPS) hosted the Water Traditions Symposium in Mzamba, Eastern Cape, from 15 to 16 April 2025. This stimulating symposium invited local and international academics, practitioners, activists, and doctoral students along the Amadiba Wild Coast to engage in practices of deep learning and meditations on the indigenous and scientific knowledge that we hold about the ocean. Read more.
Prof Nelson Maldonado-Torres's Combative Decolonial Philosophy of Frantz Fanon Seminar
The College of Human Sciences hosted ISHS’s Academic Associate Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres for a seminar titled “The Combative Decolonial Philosophy of Frantz Fanon” on the 30th of July 2025. Executive Dean Professor Zethu Nkosi opened the proceedings and introduced Professor Maldonado-Torres. Read more.
Prof Nelson Maldonado-Torres's Combative Decolonial Philosophy of Frantz Fanon Seminar
The College of Human Sciences hosted ISHS’s Academic Associate Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres for a seminar titled “The Combative Decolonial Philosophy of Frantz Fanon” on the 30th of July 2025. Executive Dean Professor Zethu Nkosi opened the proceedings and introduced Professor Maldonado-Torres. Read more.
Healing in Community: The Institute successfully hosts its fourth annual Shaping Our Future Women’s Day community dialogue
On August 7th, 2025, Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS), in partnership with community outreach unit Imbumbe YaBafazi, hosted the fourth annual Shaping Our Future Women’s Day community dialogue. Read more.
Healing in Community: The Institute successfully hosts its fourth annual Shaping Our Future Women’s Day community dialogue
On August 7th, 2025, Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS), in partnership with community outreach unit Imbumbe YaBafazi, hosted the fourth annual Shaping Our Future Women’s Day community dialogue. Read more.
The Institute for Social Health Sciences (ISHS) is an Africa-centred space for community-engaged scholars and activists of an internationalist orientation. Those who are embedded within the Institute tend to situate themselves in transdisciplinary and liberatory knowledge practices, as well as compassionate community engagement, in the service of human development. The ISHS seeks to develop the collective as well as the individual contributions of its researchers, and harness their expertise within the social, psychological and public health sciences towards producing knowledges and actions which are able to deepen the ways by which we understand social, psychological and health phenomena, and how we may begin to transform the social and health sciences more generally.
The ISHS finds expression for its vision, mission, strategic goals and principles through three programmes. They are:
Last modified: 2025/02/21
