Nelson Mandela University

Nelson Mandela University is a dynamic and forward-thinking public higher learning institution in South Africa. The university is a leader in generating cutting-edge knowledge for a sustainable future. The university strives to ‘change the world’ through its transformative posture, transdisciplinarity and sustainability-oriented approaches. Nelson Mandela University is a diverse institution with over 5000 staff 32 000 students, 7 faculties: Humanities, Science, Engineering, the Built Environment and Technology, Health Sciences, Law as well as the Business Economic Sciences. These are flung across 7 campuses offering around 500 post and undergraduate programmes in Gqeberha and George, South Africa. The university’s institutional research themes include, Ocean and Coastal Sciences, Social justice and Democracy, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Livelihoods, Innovation and the Digital Economy, Origins, Culture, Heritage and Memory as well as Humanising Pedagogies.