Dr Martina Jordaan is the Head: Community engagement research and postgraduate students at the Mamelodi campus of the University of Pretoria. She was previously a senior lector at the Faculty Engineering, Built Environment and IT at the University of Pretoria, responsible for the compulsory Community Engagement Module.
Previously she was head of the Education Museum in Pretoria. Thereafter she was responsible for the development of pre-schools in the informal settlements next to Pretoria and skills development of staff of various schools in Pretoria in the Gauteng Department of Education.
She received the University of Pretoria’s Community Engagement Award for 2015. The module received recognition via the Education Innovation Awards (2006) as a finalist of the MacJannet Prize (2010) and won the Marketing Advancement & Communication in Education (MACE) Excellence Award in the Category: Integrated campaigns/projects and Subcategory: Social Responsibility Citizenship Development in 2014. Dr Jordaan received the University of Pretoria’s Community Engagement Award in 2015 and the University Education for Transformative Leadership in Africa (UETLA) (Talloires Network) in 2016, and a special award for teaching in Learning from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT in 2019.
In 2022 she received the Talloires Engaged Scholarship Grant for her project with the Historical Society of Mamelodi. In 2023 she was a finalist for the 2022/2023 NSTF-South32 Awards – Science Communication award and received the International Award for Excellence for an article in Organizational Cultures: An International Journal with her co-authors.