The South African 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Birth to 5 Years: Results From the Stakeholder Consultation

Featuring both, Catherine Draper, Senior Lecturer at Wits University and Simone Tomaz, University of Stirling who both worked on the development of the Movement Guidelines for South Africa..

Useful Tools:

https://www.ssisa.com/news/movement-guidelines-children/

https://ilifalabantwana.co.za/7476-2/

Articles & Related Research:

Draper, C.E., Tomaz, S.A., Stone, M., Hinkley, T., Jones, R.A., Louw, J., Twine, R., Kahn, K. and Norris, S.A., 2017. Developing intervention strategies to optimise body composition in early childhood in South Africa. BioMed research international, 2017.

Tomaz, S.A., 2018. Physical activity and gross motor skills in rural South African preschool children (Doctoral dissertation, University of Cape Town).

Draper, C.E., Tomaz, S.A., Stone, M., Hinkley, T., Jones, R.A., Louw, J., Twine, R., Kahn, K. and Norris, S.A., 2017. Research Article Developing Intervention Strategies to Optimise Body Composition in Early Childhood in South Africa.

Jones, S., Hendricks, S. and Draper, C.E., 2014. Assessment of physical activity and sedentary behavior at preschools in Cape Town, South Africa. Childhood Obesity, 10(6), pp.501-510.

This ECD Series is supported by the DG Murray Trust Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

Why do people protest? Should social workers be involved in social protests? We hear from Hilary Chibaya a social work Phd researcher at Stellenbosch University looking at social action & protests in South Africa

Masters Research: THE EXECUTION OF INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION SESSIONS: EXPERIENCES OF INTERMEDIATE FRONTLINE SOCIAL WORKERS: http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/103336 Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

Atmore is the director of the Centre for Early Childhood Development and his thesis focused on an in-depth analysis of the South African Early Childhood Development policy.

This episode starts off our ECD series by looking at the pathway and progress of ECD policy in South Africa and the implications of this in the ECD sector.

Centre for Early Childhood Development: https://cecd.org.za

Atmore, E., 2019. An Interpretive Analysis of the Early Childhood Development Policy Trajectory in Post-apartheid South Africa. https://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/105968/atmore_childhood_2019.pdf?sequence=1

Van Niekerk, L. Ashley-Cooper, M and Atmore, E. (2017) Effective early childhood development programme options meeting the needs of young South African children. Cape Town: Centre for Early Childhood Development.

https://cecd.org.za/news/

http://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/343631/eric-atmore-completes-groundbreaking-phd-at-62

This Podcast Series is supported by the DG Murray Trust Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

What do we really know about the lived experiences of people who are unemployed? In this episode, Dr Melinda Du Toit passionately describes her journey and doctoral research which focused on the qualitative inquiry into the experience of unemployment of individuals living in South African townships.

Melinda is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) at the University of Johannesburg

Recent article in the Conversaiton.com:

https://theconversation.com/south-africans-describe-the-pain-of-unemployment-130250?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton&fbclid=IwAR3hxKnycXDTB19wSs0Oz9jyZsTQ2BImNfSafN8bYBXPRhWmP3SOM0hhFDE

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14330237.2018.1454575

Contextual factors and the experience of unemployment: A review of qualitative studies:

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2222-34362018000100055

Exploring experiences of unemployment in South African townships [PhD (Industrial Psychology):

http://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/31643 Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

Part 2 of 2

This episode denatures the doctoral research exploring the contemporary issues facing NGOs today. Termed the 'neoliberal tenants', this study presents the voices of South African, NGO-based frontline social workers.

We talk NGO sector funding, burnout and the challenges that social workers are facing in an ever growing global economy.

Links from the episode:

https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=5552

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/438f/dcb7d9d92bdf97e7a99eabf99235a3285aea.pdf

http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-80542018000300003&lng=en&tlng=en

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-global-social-work-definition%3A-Ontology%2C-and-Ornellas-Spolander/c9bfd715d24349d293910874733b7d0d4fdf52f6 Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

Part 1 of 2 Episodes with Abigail Ornellas, Post Doc Fellow& Researcher from Stellenbosch University.

In Part 1, we hear the personal journey and the road to becoming a social work research as well as the stories behind wanting to leave an impact in South Africa through research and academia.

Part 2: The Unseen neoliberal implications on social work :voices of South African Social workers with Abigail Ornelles [Link to come]

Links from Episode:

https://www.blacksash.org.za/index.php/media-and-publications/media-statements/625-sassa-s-decommissioning-process-has-devastating-consequences-on-social-grant-beneficiaries

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-10-08-rural-social-grant-beneficiaries-bear-the-brunt-of-closed-sassa-pay-points/

https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=5552

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigail-ornellas-a2991b65/ Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

In South Africa, health issues such as HIV/AIDS are a reality for many. Different cultures tackle and cope with these challenges in different ways, one of which is traditional healing. Dr Zibonele Zimba explores these issues in some of his research and shares his experiences as a social work researcher.

Links from the episode

SU Staff Profile: http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/arts/social-work/Pages/Staff/Zibonele-Zama.aspx

Challenges faced by traditional healers when treating people living with HIV and AIDS: the case of Intsika Municipality, Eastern Cape province. Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1015357

Zimba, Z. and Tanga, P.T., 2014. Challenges faced by traditional healers when treating people living with HIV and AIDS: the case of intsika municipality, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Studies on Ethno-Medicine, 8(3), pp.269-275.

Zimba, Z.F., 2017. The impact of family preservation and family reunification services on families in South Africa: a case study of Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province. Link : http://hdl.handle.net/10353/3088 Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

Living with physical disabilities can be a challenge for anyone, and caregivers of persons with disabilities are a unique group of people who require support, resources and knowledge to care adequately for the challenges that arise when caring for people with special needs.

In this podcast call, Noreth Muller-Kluits, lecturer from College of Cape Town an PhD Candidate from Stellenbosch University shares her findings, resources and research related to caring for people with disabilities.

Links from Episode

Informability Blog: https://informability.blog/about/

Masters Research Thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102919 Connect with Kayla on Linkedin

Social Work Supervision is a field of interest for social workers and managers working in the social service sector. Supervision is a valuable tool to foster growth and professionalism in organisations, what is interesting is that barriers exist that hinder social workers and leave them vulnerable to inadequate and even harmful supervision.

Social worker and postgraduate researcher, Thea Wynne shares with us her research lessons, findings and reflections on her Masters Study titled: The potential factors contributing to harmful supervision of social workers.

For research outputs: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/62

http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/107900

Stellenbosch University Social Work Department: http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/arts/social-work Connect with Kayla on Linkedin