Nevashnee Perumal is the second born child of Perumal Subramoney and Pushpavathee Pillay. She is married to Kessie Perumal with one child, Shamara. Nevashnee is a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Development Professions at Nelson Mandela University, researching and teaching in the areas of leadership and management, social work supervision, ethics and indigenising the social work curriculum.
In addition she holds a commitment to utilising humanising pedagogies as well as the pedagogy of discomfort in challenging structures and spaces in higher education. She leads a recently constituted group viz African Knowledge Production Incubators which has representation from five SA universities supported by the NRF. She also serves as the international representative on the Association for Social African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI).
Nevashnee is 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.
Designation:
Senior Lecturer
Email:
nevashnee.perumal@mandela.ac.za
Contact Number:
0415042349
Faculty:
Health Sciences
Department:
Social Development Professions
Qualifications:
BA (SW) (UDW), MSW (Clinical Practice) (UKZN),PhD(UFH)
Professional Memberships:
SACSSP
Orcid ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8565-2547
NRF Rating:
N/A
Research Interests:
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Social work supervision and management
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Child protection
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Right to health of vulnerable people
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Indigenous knowledge production and decolonisation of social work theory
Current non-degree Research Projects:
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African Knowledge Production Incubators
Current Final Year Undergraduate/Honours Research Projects:
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N/A
Number of currently supervised Masters and PhD candidates (2023 to 2024):
Research Output 2023 to 2024:
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Nevashnee Perumal, Veonna Goliath, Mbongeni Sithole, Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya, Motlalepule Nathane & Priscalia Khosa (06 Jun 2024): African Knowledge Production Incubators: Approaching Indigenous and Decolonized Social Work from the Ground Up Through Stories of Our Lived Experiences, Journal of Progressive Human Services, DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2024.2362469.
Current Research Collaborations within your Department or Discipline:
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African Knowledge Production Incubators - collaboration with 4 other social work academic departments in South Africa. Social Work Education South Africa - participant in a collaboration with WITS university and 5 other social work academic departments in South Africa.
Current Inter-Disciplinary/Multi-Disciplinary/Trans-Disciplinary Research Collaborations:
N/A