2024 Visiting Professor Equality Diversity and Inclusion Series

Professor Frank Kronenberg

Dr Frank Kronenberg, who originates from the Netherlands, is Chair of the Board of Directors of Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA), a Khayelitsha township-based Non-Profit Organization. Frank is co-founder of the movement Occupational Therapists without Borders, which inspired a number of international ground-breaking publications which he co-edited and co-authored: Occupational Therapy without Borders-Learning from the Spirit of Survivors (2005); A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy (2008); Occupational Therapies without Borders – Volume 2: Towards an Ecology of Occupation-Based Practices (2011). Frank works as an honorary researcher at the Department of Medicine of the University of Cape Town and as an international guest-lecturer and consultant at universities in Africa, North and South America, and Europe, formally affiliated with the Zuyd University (Netherlands); Schule für Ergotherapie Eckardtsheim (Germany) and California State University Domingues Hills (United States). Frank conducted doctoral research in occupational therapy/occupational science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His phronetic collective case study with embedded narrative enquiry focused on everyday enactments of humanity affirmations in post 1994 apartheid South Africa, advancing a radical understanding of being human as occupation and health. Before coming to South Africa in 2006, Frank travelled extensively and worked in projects and programs that aimed to advance the plight of children and adults living with disabilities and youth-at-risk in the United States, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Mexico and Guatemala.