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On the move for mental health
UCT’s Student Wellness Service hosted the inaugural Run/Walk4Mental Health on Sunday, 10 October, to celebrate World Mental Health Day, part of Mental Health Awareness Month.
13 Oct 2021
Complexity studies course: thinking skills for wicked problems
EMS’s new Applied Complexity Science online postgraduate course not only teaches integrated systems sciences, but applies this learning to the context of its delivery.
12 Oct 2021
New book offers fresh take on the age-old problem of how to advance social change
A new book by UCT GSB Adjunct Faculty and Alumni offers a fresh and hopeful take on the age-old problem of how to advance social change.
12 Oct 2021
PhD candidate’s mission to understand the human brain
Leen Remmelzwaal’s PhD research aims to understand how the brain makes, interprets and processes predications, and how these direct and influence an individual’s decision-making process.
12 Oct 2021
Join the 2021 Climate Transparency Report launch
The Climate Transparency Report 2021 is a collaborative effort involving G20 countries. The launch takes place on Thursday, 14 October.
11 Oct 2021
Prof Lis Lange encourages you to get vaccinated
UCT’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning, Prof Lis Lange, encourages the UCT community to get their COVID-19 vaccinations.
11 Oct 2021
Child and adolescent mental healthcare has many gaps
A UCT PhD graduate is working towards creating separate mental healthcare facilities for children and adolescents.
11 Oct 2021
Master’s student reflects on ‘turning grief into gratitude’
Nqabisa Faku, a psychology master’s student at UCT, said letting go of guilt and anger is important when processing the death of a loved one.
08 Oct 2021
Questions about life, mental health and the influence of psychiatry
Big questions about the role of mental health professions and living a meaningful life were taken on by UCT academics and others at a recent panel ahead of Mental Health Awareness Month.
08 Oct 2021
UCT COO encourages you to get vaccinated
UCT’s chief operating officer Dr Reno Morar encourages the UCT community to get their Covid-19 jab.
08 Oct 2021
UCT VC encourages you to get vaccinated
UCT vice-chancellor, Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng shares her COVID-19 vaccination story.
08 Oct 2021
Education, gender and poverty affect climate change literacy in Africa
A research paper by Dr Nicholas Simpson, a postdoctoral researcher at UCT, highlights the importance of educating Africans on climate change.
08 Oct 2021
Shining the spotlight on women in palaeoscience
Two women palaeoscientists from UCT had the opportunity to share their experiences in the field at a recent Human Evolution Research Institute Winter Webinar Series.
07 Oct 2021
UCT alumnus appointed chairman at top SA law firm
Ezra Davids, who holds both a BA and an LLB from UCT, was announced as the chairman of Bowmans law firm on 1 October 2021.
07 Oct 2021
CILT project aims to build a more inclusive learning environment
UCT’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching is heading up a three-year project focusing on inclusive, digitally enabled education through the redesign of blended courses.
07 Oct 2021
In conversation with Irma Stern Museum’s new curator
Curator and educator Yentl Kohler recently joined the UCT Irma Stern Museum staff. Director, Nadja Daehnke, had a conversation about the ambitions Kohler brings to her new post.
06 Oct 2021
Year-old San and Khoi Centre adds invaluable indigenous knowledge to archive
New knowledge produced by UCT’s youngest research entity, the San and Khoi Centre, is set to revive some of the indigenous knowledge archive lost in the recent fire.
06 Oct 2021
VC Open Lecture: Tsakani Maluleke
Auditor-General of South Africa and UCT alumna, Ms Tsakani Maluleke presented the virtual Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture.
05 Oct 2021
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