This summary does not cover the myriad of other activities that take place in the UCT Transformation Office. For more information in this regard please see: https://www.uct.ac.za/about/transformation/office
The Diversity and Inclusivity Initiative at UCT has 5 activity areas:
1) Encouraging Institutional Diversity and Inclusivity Research. With the exception of the UCT 2013 climate survey, academic oversight in this area will be provided by Professor Kurt April from the UCT Graduate School of Business for this Activity. Details to follow.
2) Applied Diversity Education of UCT staff and students undertaken by the Transformation Services Offices. This area includes recruitment selection retention and supervision of student and staff diversity trainers as wel as co-ordinating and following up workshops. Staff Diversity Education is known as the ADAPT programme. Student Diversity Education is known as the STAP programme.
3) Evaluation of UCT Diversity Initiatives.
4) Chairing a forum of UCT staff working broadly in the field where seminars are presented to promote interdisciplinary sharing.
5) Maintenance of a Database of research conducted by UCT staff relevant to this area.
1. Encouraging Institutional Diversity and Inclusivity Research. The Director of Transformation is part of the UCT team led by Deputy Vice Chancellor Crain Soudien engaging in the UCT Climate Survey in collaboration with members of the UCT Psychology Department in 2013. This follows on previous climate surveys conducted at UCT. For more information contact the co-ordinator of this arm Glenda.Wildschut@uct.ac.za.
2. Applied Diversity Education. The ADAPT Programme is a workshop-based initiative developed within the University by the Transformation Services Office, and led by Francois Botha, director of the UCT Discrimination and Harassment Office (DISCHO) and Glenda Wildschut, director of the TSO, and assisted by Khairoonisa Foflonker. Following on the university's Khuluma and Mamela Programmes, ADAPT seeks to engage UCT staff as well as students in a meaningful conversation around transformation, inclusion and social justice. It aims to provide staff and student leaders with the skills and competencies to engage with each other’s class, race, gender, dis/ability, sexuality, cultural and other differences in an empathic and respectful way. The overarching aim of the ADAPT workshops is to facilitate deeper understanding of each other in order to facilitate a positive impact on the institutional culture. For more information about the ADAPT or STAP programmes please contact the co-ordinator of this arm Khairoonisa Foflonker at Khairoonisa.Foflonker@uct.ac.za
3. Evaluation of Diversity Initiatives
The following research projects are taking place:
i. Potgiter, J. (In Progress). An Evaluation of the ADAPT Programme. For more information with regards to this work please contact: Khairoonisa Foflonker at Khairoonisa.Foflonker@uct.ac.za
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ii. Volks, C and Kyobula- Mukoza, S. Outcomes of 2 groups of Diversity Educators Witnessing Accounts of Public Apologies Following Extreme Violence: The Capacity for Empathic Repair. (In Progress - Accepted for conference presentation Engaging the Other at the University of the Orange Free State 4-7 December 2012).
iii. Abrahams, S. (In progress - Accepted for the HELTASA Conference Stellenbosch November 2012). Integration, Norming and Collaboration: A Conceptual Framework for the Integration of HIV/AIDS Education into Mainstream Curricula at the University of Cape Town.
iv. Volks, C and Reddy L (In Progress - Accepted for conference presentation on 29 and 30th November 2012 Higher Education Against AIDS: From Applying the Research to Researching the Applied). Submitted for SAHARA Special Issue. Responding to HIV and AIDS Stigma at Higher Education Institutions as an Issue of Inclusivity and Inequality: Outcomes from UCT students interactions with Fine Art Students’ Anti-HIV-stigma installations
v. Kyobula-Mukoza, S. Accepted for presentation. Higher Education Against AIDS: From Applying the Research to Researching the Applied. Submitted for SAHARA Special Issue. An Evaluation Investigating the Quality of HIV Testing and Counseling Services of a PEPFAR funded organisation in relation to a University funded HIV testing organisation: An implementation evaluation
vi. Reddy, L; Volks,C and Saptouw F. (In Progress - Submitted for conference presentation on 29 and 30th November 2012 Higher Education Against AIDS: From Applying the Research to Researching the Applied). Submitted for SAHARA Special Issue. Outcomes of UCT Fine Art Students Using Art Installations to Engage UCT Students around Sexual Concurrency and HIV.
vii. Volks, C; Reddy L and Saptouw F. (In Progress - Accepted for conference presentation at the Festival of Desire University of Cape Town. October 2012) .” I felt disgusted at what he felt to be OK”: Art students representations of different cosntcutions of desire in relation to sexual concurrency and HIV between University of Cape Town HIV/AIDS peer educators and those students they sought to educate.
viii. Volks, C; Reddy, L; Kyobula-Mukoza, S; Wessels, W and Lomofsky, D. (In Progress). Applying Campbell’s theory of an AIDS Competent Community: An outcomes evaluation of the AIDS Community Educators (ACES) Programme.
The staff of the HIV Unit within the Transformation Office at HAICU are currently co-ordinating a cluster around monitoring and evaluation within the Transformation Service Office. There is therefore a link between this cluster and the evaluation arm of the Diversity and Inclusivity Initiative. For more informationon the above projects no ii to viii please contact the co-ordinator if this arm Cal Volks: Cal.Volks@uct.ac.za
or colleagues involved with the research: Lucina Reddy.Lucina.Reddy@uct.ac.za ; Stella Kyobula- Mukoza. Stella.Kyobula-Mukoza@uct.ac.za ; Sianne Abrahams. Sianne.Abrahams@uct.ac.za . 4) Chairing a forum of UCT staff working broadly in the field where seminars are presented to promote interdisciplinary sharing. This will commence in 2013. For more information please contact the co-ordinator of this arm Glenda Wildschut. Glenda.Wildschut@uct.ac.za.
5) Maintenance of a Database. This will be further developed in 2013 by an officer within the Transformation Office. At the present if you have information to add to this database please contact. Khairoonisa.Foflonker@uct.ac.za
