Nevashnee Perumal

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving:

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving: National Rep ASASWEI, Four year term.

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW):

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW): Senior Lecturer, Social Development Professions, Nelson Mandela University

Membership of organizations (other than IASSW):

Membership of organisations (other than IASSW): Social Work Action Network South Africa (SWAN-SA), African Knowledge Production Incubators

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees):

BSW, MSW (Clinical SW), PhD (Social Work)

Languages written and spoken:

English

Interest Areas (social work teaching, research and practice):

I am committed to partnering and engaging with the global South as well as BRICS countries to learn how indigenous social work is given life in their countries and to share how our country teaches, researches and partners with practitioners to deliver our qualifications. In addition, collaborations with the North will provide a space to learn as well as to challenge the structures that keep social work as a profession in bondage of welfarism and neo managerial liberalism. My particular interests lie in Social work leadership and management, supervision, decolonizing and indigenizing the social work curriculum, and social work ethics.

Current Activities (social work teaching, research, practice, others):

I teach the following on the BSW:  social work ethics and supervision, leadership and management, social development in South Africa and I teach management of human services and private practice on the Clinical Masters program. I am also leading the African Knowledge Production Incubators project funded by the National Research foundation.