The Social Responsiveness Award was established in 2009. It recognises UCT academics who demonstrate that social engagement has enhanced the teaching and learning process – one of the university’s priorities.
2017
The Schools Improvement Initiative, through the multidimensional nature of its work, fosters partnerships, harnesses resources, improves schools and crucially, opens the doors of higher learning – thus embodying UCT’s commitment to social responsiveness. It is for these reasons that the SII has been chosen as a worthy recipient of the 2017 Social Responsiveness Award. Read the citation...
2016
There was no award made in 2016.
2015
Associate Professor Roshan Galvaan and Liesl Peters, in recognition of work that demonstrates a compelling commitment to the confluence of research, teaching and service in addressing the social realities faced by communities, and a contribution that revolutionises occupational therapy practice, ensuring that it responds more actively to people's living conditions. Read the citation...
The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business in recognition of work that has uncovered over 300 innovative models and solutions in education, health and other social impact fields; convened over 5 000 citizens and practitioners across sectors; tested the feasibility of innovative social solutions; and produced over 12 formal knowledge outputs from this work in publicly available reports and journal articles. Read the citation...
2014
Stuart Hendry, director of the commerce faculty's Development Unit for New Enterprise (DUNE) and co-founder of the Southern Africa Sustainable Development Initiative (SASDI), in recognition of SASDI's Starting Chance campaign, which aims to transform 30 shack-based crèches into formal centres of excellence for early learning development.
Associate Professor Sophie Oldfield of the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science for building a research-teaching partnership with Gertrude Square and the Valhalla Park United Front Civic Organisation in Cape Town.
2013
Legal expert Prof Pierre de Vos for consistently providing both printed and electronic media with analysis, insight and explanation on both narrowly focused constitutional law questions, as well as on broader socio-political questions.
2012
Associate Professor Mohamed Adhikari for his service to his alma mater, Harold Cressy High School, through a number of heritage projects.
The Environmental Evaluation Unit for the work it does to enhance the governance of complex human-ecological systems through collaborative interdisciplinary research across natural resource sectors, mostly in poor and marginalised communities.
2011
Assoc Prof Ralph Hamann, (research director at the Graduate School of Business) for his work on the Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL), which brings together different role players in the regional food system to find innovative solutions to food security problems.
Dr Sindiso Mnisi Weeks; Assoc Prof Dee Smythe, and Aninka Claassens of the Rural Women's Action Research Project, run by the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit (LRG) in the law faculty and provides support to rural people (especially women) who live under systems of customary law and traditional governance
2010
Dr Hanna Andrea Röther - Principal Research Officer in the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research
2009
Dr Lillian Artz - founder and director of the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit
Dr Ailsa Holloway - director of the Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihood Programme, which generates new knowledge in the emerging field of disaster management science;
Professor Diane McIntyre, of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, for her decades of contributions to national policy on health finance.
