Faculty of Education. The ELRC is currently home to two Research Chairs. SARChI Chair in Global Change and Social Learning SystemsIn 2015 Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka was awarded a prestigious Tier 1 SARChI Chair under the National Research Foundation’s South African Research Chair Initiative. This chair has an explicit focus on transformative social learning and green skills learning pathways. The Chair’s proposal is aligned with the Department of Science and Technology’s Global Change National Research Plan, but focuses on the way in which global change challenges play out in South Africa and on the African continent. It addresses a need to better understand social learning processes and systems in response to global change challenges as they play out at the intersection of society-economy-environment and politics. The Chair focus on advancing knowledge of: Transformative social learning and global change responses in an African context Social learning systems and green skills learning pathways into the green economy Ways in which transformative social learning can be systemically developed for societal transformation within a climate resilient, sustainable and socially just path https://www.ru.ac.za/elrc/about/researchchairs/