Vishanthie Sewpaul

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Vishanthie Sewpaul
PhD
Vishanthie Sewpaul
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Natal
ThesisConfronting the pain of infertility : feminist, ethical and religious aspects of infertility and the new reproductive technologies (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineSocial Work
InstitutionsUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
University of Stavanger

Vishanthie Sewpaul was a senior professor of social work at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa where she remains an Emeritus Professor, and she held a professor II position at the University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.[1] Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of social justice, human rights, critical social work, and globalization among others. Sewpaul holds a bachelor's (B.A.) and a master's (M. Medical Sc.) in social work.[2] She obtained her PhD from the University of Natal in 1995. The title of her dissertation was Confronting the pain of infertility: Feminist, ethical and religious aspects of infertilely and the new reproductive technologies.[3]

Personal life[edit]

Sewpaul grew up in South Africa under apartheid. She and her siblings were raised solely by her mother after Sewpaul's father passed away when she was very young. These experiences influenced her research and teaching interests.[4]

Career[edit]

Sewpaul has lectured at universities around the world. She was a professor at the College of Education at Zayed University, UAE.[1] She holds honorary doctoral degrees at Mid Sweden University, Sweden,[5] Miguel de Cervantes University, Chile[6] and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway.[7] Sewpaul has also been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at universities and events in many countries.[1][2][8][9]

Sewpaul served as a vice-president on the board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and as the president of the Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa (ASSWA).[2][4] She also served as President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions and was the inaugural President of the National Association of Social Workers, South Africa - the first unified, non-racial professional association for social workers in post apartheid South Africa.

Publications[edit]

A selection of books, chapters in books and articles published by Sewpaul can be found on her staff profile at UKZN.[2]

  • Vishanthie Sewpaul 'The Arc of Our Paths: Growing into Wholeness' (A Memoir) 2020
  • Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer and Tanusha Raniga 'The Tensions Between Culture and Human Rights: Afrocentricity and Emancipatory Social Work in a Global World' 2021.
  • Vishanthie Sewpaul, Dorothee Hölscher Social Work in Times of Neoliberalism: A Postmodern Discourse 2004. ISBN 9780627026065
  • Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole, Participation in Community Work: International Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, 2013. ISBN 9781135122966,
  • Mark Henrickson, David Chipanta, Vincent J Lynch, Harnando Muñoz Sanchez, Vimla V. Nadkarni, Tetyana Semigina, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Getting to Zero: Global Social Work Responds to HIV, Massey University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780994141545
  • "The global–local dialectic: Challenges for African scholarship and social work in a post-colonial world", British Journal of Social Work, Oxford University Press, 2006/4/1, Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 419-434

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Vishanthie Sewpaul". UiS. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  2. ^ a b c d "Vishanthie Sewpaul". School of Applied Human Sciences. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  3. ^ Seepamore, Boitumelo (2018-09-27), "Chapter 9 Between and Betwixt – Positioning Nannies as Mothers: Perspectives from Durban, South Africa", Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins, Advances in Gender Research, vol. 25, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 141–155, doi:10.1108/s1529-212620180000025009, ISBN 978-1-78756-400-8, S2CID 149488126
  4. ^ a b "Vishanthie Sewpaul -Chair of Task force on review of ethical principles • International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)". International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  5. ^ "Bo Hilleberg en av fem nya hedersdoktorer | 2014 |". www.miun.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  6. ^ "UKZN NdabaOnline". ndabaonline.ukzn.ac.za. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  7. ^ Wolden, Grete (2019-11-13). "Professor i sosialt arbeid ny æresdoktor ved NTNU". NTNU Nyheter (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  8. ^ "FSU welcomes South African Human Rights Scholar | College of Social Work". csw.fsu.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  9. ^ "Politics of Hope in a World Divided: Social Work and the Legacy of Nelson Mandela". The Columbia School of Social Work. Retrieved 2020-03-08.

External links[edit]

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