Institutional Linkages

National Linkages /Collaborations

• Centre for Aids, Development, Research & Evaluation (CADRE), Johannesburg
• Communication Health Initiative (CHI), Pretroria
• Drama in Aids Education (DramAidE), UNIZUL, CCMS, Durban 
• United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). CCMS hosts the UNESCO Chair in Communication.

International Linkages /Collaborations

• Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs.
• Art: A Resource for Reconciliation Over the World, University College of St Mark and St John, Exeter, UK.   (CCMS Coordinator, Mary Lange).
• University of Reading (England)
• University of Gävle (Sweden)
• Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway.
• Centre for Communications Programmes, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA.
• Africa Media Programme, African Studies Center, Michigan State University.
• Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, California.
• World Association for Christian Communication (London).
• Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
• Gimlekollen School of Journalism, Norway.
• South African – Vrije Universiteit – Strategic Alliances, The Netherlands.

 The Programme has linkages with numerous other institutions.

 Institutional Memberships

• Commissions on Visual Anthropology and
  Urgent Anthropological Research, International Union of Anthropological
  and Ethnological Sciences
• International Association for Semiotic Studies
• Orbicom – The International Network on UNESCO Chairs in Communications
• CCMS is registered as a UNESCO Cooperating Organization of the SA National Commission.

Individual CCMS staff have been and are
office bearing members of:  International Association for Media and
Communication Research (IAMCR), Association for Cultural Studies (ACS),
South African Communication Association(SACOMM), amongst many others.