Dr Genevieve James 

Demystifying Engaged Scholarship: How Engaged Scholarship can enhance social responsiveness in Africa​

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Dr Genevieve Lerina James currently serves at Africa's mega university, the University of South Africa. She heads the Community Engagement and Outreach division which provides oversight to Unisa’s engaged scholarship and outreach projects.  ​

She created the education for justice initiative, the Chance 2 Advance, which is a best practice in Knowledge Mobilization. The Chance 2 Advance programme is designed to create wider access to critical knowledge produced in the higher education sector and encourage mutual knowledge mobilization between universities, and entities outside of the academy. In 2018, the programme crossed over the 100 000 participant reach.