Associate Professor: Mathematics
Durban University of Technology
Durban University of Technology
DURBAN, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dr Darren Lortan is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), where he has held several leadership positions (including Executive Dean, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and Acting Senior Director: Engagement). His interest in Community Engagement (CE) began through a project which marketed STEM professions to high school students. Over the years the focus of his CE interests included early childhood development, youth development and educational support, adult basic education, post-school training and local community skills development, and social entrepreneurship. He serves as the National Chair of the South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum (SAHECEF), and as the Vice-Chair of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE). Under his leadership, DUT joined the Knowledge for Change Consortium (K4C), which in partnership with local community organisations is developing he next generation of Community Based Participatory Researchers, drawn from community members, engaged students and academics. He was the principal investigator of the SAQA – DUT Articulation Research Partnership (2015-2020), a project that explored the factors that inhibit or enable articulation within the post school education and training sector in South Africa. He is the National Project Coordinator of the Unfurling Post-School Education and Training (UPSET Project), which in March 2021, was established after being awarded a prestigious University Capacity Development Programme grant to enable implementation of articulation between Technical Vocational Education and Training Colleges and Higher Education Institutions. in South Africa.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
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