Prof Corné Davis is a known gender-based violence and gender identity activist, lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate modules at the Department of Strategic Communication at UJ. She is a Trustee of Matla a bana, a well-known NGO who campaigns against child rape and secondary abuse; she is also an advisory to TEARS Foundations, who supports victims of GBV as well as an advisory to Hope to Heal Foundation, who works with Human Trafficking and GBV. She serves in Pillar six in the National Strategic Plan to address GBV in South Africa. She has been the lead researcher in the much-publicised report released at the JSE on 11 March 2022, called the Costly impact of GBV South Africa, private sector perceptions and realities. Prof Davis is involved with ongoing GBV research in collaboration with Prof Koustuv Dalal, from University of Mid Sweden, and continues collaboration with Shared Value Africa Initiative and KPMG in further GBV intervention and prevention initiatives.