Keynote Address at Community University Engagement Conference, Durban

The Durban University of Technology, in association with the Rhodes University will be hosting ‘Community Engagement: Towards Social & Epistemic Justice’ from May 31- June 2, 2017 in Durban, South Africa. The purpose of this conference was to raise the debate and engender further critical inquiry on the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings and conceptual perspectives of community engagement and how they progress social and epistemic justice in contemporary South Africa and globally.

Dr Rajesh Tandon, Founder-President PRIA & Co-Chair, UNESCO Chair, delivered a keynote presentation titled, ‘Community Based Participatory Research: Past, Present & Future’, in which he traced his journey in the field of CBPR and shared his past experiences in the field. He also reflected on the myriad manifestations of CBPR in the current context and the opportunities in store for the future.