Lulu Shokane is a Professor of Social Work and serving as the Acting Deputy Dean of Research and Internationalisation at the Faculty of Arts, University of Zululand. She was previously the Head of Department of Social Work. She holds a doctoral degree in Social Work from University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa. She has successfully supervised both Masters and PhD’s to completion.

She is widely published. Her research interests include among others; the broad field of Social Work and Community Development; critical and radical social work, decolonised methodologies, indigenous knowledge and practices within context of community development; asset-oriented community-led development (ABCD) – thus specific to social work education. She was the Vice-President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). She is currently the NIHSS Regional Mentor for the KwaZulu-Natal region.