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Associate Professor
Name: Corn茅 Davis-Buitendag
Location: B-Ring 617A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of Strategic Communication StaffStaff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 2035

Email:听cdavis-buitendag@uj.ac.za

About Prof Corn茅 Davis-Buitendag

Qualifications:

D Litt et Phil UNISA 2011

Overview/bio:

Prof Corn茅 Davis-Buitendag is an associate professor at the Department of Strategic Communication. Her field of expertise is gender-based violence (GBV) and she has published several national and international papers on this topic on academic and industry platforms. She has been interviewed on national television and radio channels multiple times and has been leading funded research projects on GBV. She has supervised a number of masters and doctoral studies on GBV and gender identity. She lectures modules in strategic communication at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She has received the Faculty of Humanities Dean鈥檚 award for outstanding academic citizenship in 2022 and won the overall Woman of Stature award for South Africa in 2023 for her work related to GBV. She is currently involved in national and international GBV research projects, including TEARS Foundation鈥檚 Help-at-Your-Fingertips GBV victim mapping and profiling, and 欧美福利100000 of Western鈥檚 international IPV prevention and intervention study.

Research Interests: gender-based violence, global sustainability, corporate social responsibility, corporate social responsiveness, employee well-being, social activism, organisational purpose

Achievements: (if relevant):

2021 Faculty of Humanities extra mile award
2022 Faculty of Humanities Dean鈥檚 award for outstanding academic citizenship
2022 Woman of Stature Award for woman in education and training
2022 Woman of Stature Award for overall winner

Journal publications:

Verwey, S. & Davis, C. (2011). Sociocybernetics and autopoiesis 鈥 new laws of organisational form? Communicare 30(2):2-26

Verwey, S. & Davis, C. (2012). Network Direct Selling Organisations: a schismatic perspective.

Communicare 31(2):57-77.

Davis, C. (2012). A second-order cybernetic explanation for the existence of network direct selling organisations as self-creating systems. Communitas 57(1):76-88.

Davis, C. (2013). Die belang van Niklas Luhmann vir kommunikasieteorie: 鈥榥 Inleidende interpretasie. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 53(1):73-88.

Davis, C. (2015). Domestic violence in the workplace! Business Brief April/May 2015. Available at:

Davis, C. (2017). The communicative co-constitution of gender-based violence through functional differentiation. International American Journal of Social Science 6(1):32-44

Davis, C. & Meerkotter, D.N. (2017). Exploring the heuristic value of non-personal data for sexual- and gender-based violence prevention and intervention in South Africa. African Safety Promotion 15(1):16-37.

Sitto, L., Davis, C., & Matema, L. (2018). Reflection on a collaborative teaching project about gender inequality: students learning by doing through transdisciplinarity – SOTL in the South (special issue) 2(1):21-41.

Sitto, K. & Davis. C. (2020). Hidden figures 鈥 Re-framing gender prototyping from a communication science perspective. Accepted for publication in Agenda (Special edition 2020).

Davis, C. (2020). How the private sector can address the issue of gender-based violence. African Safety Promotion 18(1): 105-116.

Binneman, A. & Davis, C. (2020). Star stories: using indigenous knowledge for stakeholder engagement. Communitas 25: 1-17.

Davis, C., Kuhudzai, A. & Dalal, K. (2023). Knowledge, perceptions, beliefs and opinions of the employees about GBV: a national online study in South Africa. BMC Women鈥檚 Health 23(1):565

Davis, C. (2023). Gender-based violence as a consequence of functional differentiation. Soziale Systeme 27(1-2):62-84.

Davis, C. (2023). Exploring the impact of gender-based violence in South Africa. A partnership between 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg and Mid Sweden 欧美福利100000. The Thinker 95:50-53.

Books and chapters in books:

Binneman, A. & Davis, C. (2020). From Management to Engagement: How South Africa鈥檚 Square Kilometer Array Project Transformed its Interactions with Stakeholder Groups. NASA Special edition on Square Kilometre Array. Elsevier.

Davis, C. (2020). Strategic communication practice in communicatively constituted contexts. Perspectives on strategic communication. In Verwey, S., Benecke, D.R. & Phumo, T. (Eds). Strategic Communication. South African perspectives. Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press, pp.113-137

Davis, C. (2021). What is research? In Du Plooy-Cilliers, F., Davis, C. & Bezuidenhout, R. (Eds.) Research matters. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp.1-20

Bezuidenhout, R. & Davis, C. (2014). From topic to research question. In Du Plooy-Cilliers, F., Davis, C. & Bezuidenhout, R. (Eds.) Research matters. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp.69-80.

Davis, C. (2021). The aims of research. In Du Plooy-Cilliers, F., Davis, C. & Bezuidenhout, R. (Eds.) Research matters. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp. 81-92

Davis, C. (2021). The research rationale. . In Du Plooy-Cilliers, F., Davis, C. & Bezuidenhout, R. (Eds.) Research matters. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp. 105-113

Davis, C. (2021). Conceptualisation In Du Plooy-Cilliers, F., Davis, C. & Bezuidenhout, R. (Eds.) Research matters. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp.121-134

Davis, C. (2021). Constructing arguments in research. In Du Plooy-Cilliers, F., Davis, C. & Bezuidenhout, R. (Eds.) Research matters. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp. 135-144

Davis, C. (2023). Sense and sensemaking. In Angelopulo, G. & Lubinga, E (Eds.). Introduction to communication studies. 3rd edition. Cape Town: Juta, pp. 29-58

Conference proceedings (in the last 5 years):

Benecke, D.R. & Davis, C. (2022). Adopting a network perspective for stakeholder engagement and research during covid-19: the case of GBV research among private sector organisations in South Africa. Reboot: Should organizations rediscover communication with internal and external stakeholders? Bledcom: 29th International Public Relations Symposium July 1-2 2022.

Conference participation (in the last 5 years):

2022. The costly impact of GBV: private sector perceptions and realities in South Africa. Keynote speaker. JSE 11 August 2022.
2023. Shared Value Africa gender equality forum. Panel member. Hosted online on 8 March 2023.
2023. CEO Connect Forum. Keynote speaker. Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 18 August 2023.
2023. College of Business and Economics. Eagles fly above the storm. Keynote speaker. 19 September 2023. file:///C:/Users/cdavis/OneDrive%20%20欧美福利100000%20of%20Johannesburg/2024/NRF/Events/2023%20CBE_Womans_Conference2023_Programme_24xA4_PRINT.pdf
2023. Brand recognition, reputation, influence, credibility and market-shared opportunity. Keynote speaker. Shared Value Series. Rwanda, 17-19 October 2023.
2024. Corporate Affairs symposium. Panel member. Johannesburg stock exchange on 22 October 2024.
2024. City of Johannesburg 16 days of activism campaign. Panel member. 29 November 2024.
2024. Together for all. Survivor centred response summit. Panel member. TEARS Foundation. Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 6 December 2024.