Raisuyah Bhagwan
Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
Biography
Raisuyah Bhagwan is an Associate Professor in the Child and Youth Care Program, at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. I started my career as a social worker and was deeply involved in therapeutic and developmental work with vulnerable children and youth in rural communities. I joined academe in an effort to strengthen the professional preparedness of child and youth care practitioners in South Africa. My research interests focussed on spirituality, indigenous healing and well-being. As such I developed curricula guidelines for social work which focussed on how spirituality acts as a source of strength and the multiple spiritually based therapeutic interventions that can be used in social work practice. My interest in spirituality at the interface of health grew and I subsequently explored the role of spirituality in nursing care and education together with a Masters student. This led to several publications on this topic. I am currently the recipient of a Grant from the National Research Foundation on community engagement and have been involved in both a South African and global inquiry on community engagement in higher education. I am also involved in several international research collaborative projects.
Abstract
Abstract : Community engagement scholarship within the context of nursing education