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Tackling transformation in research at UCT
Executive, academic and professional staff gathered on 27 May to discuss how UCT’s structures, systems and practices can enable more just and inclusive research.
05 Jun 2026
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Putting UCT Global Surgery on the world stage
At the end of May, dignitaries and students gathered to celebrate the trailblazing contribution of Prof Salome Maswime, as she looks to her new role as head of Wits School of Clinical Medicine.
05 Jun 2026
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Imported gunshot detection systems can marginalise communities
A research paper revealed that when technologies like ShotSpotter travel from the Global North to Global South countries they arrive not simply as tools, but as governance scripts that shape how problems are understood.
03 Jun 2026
- 5 min read
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Apply for Falling Walls Lab 2026
Applications are now open for Falling Walls Lab Cape Town 2026.
03 Jun 2026
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Sightings of blue and fin whales increase in South-East Atlantic
UCT-led research revealed an increase in sightings of the world’s two largest whale species in the Southeastern Atlantic.
03 Jun 2026
- 5 min read
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Where polluted rivers meet possibility
The Water Hub, under UCT’s Future Water Institute, is transforming wastewater, waste and discarded landscapes; and has become a living laboratory for sustainability, innovation and social change.
02 Jun 2026
- 9 min read
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UCT ranked among world’s top 1.3% universities
UCT maintains a strong position in the latest Center for World University Rankings Global 2000 list to be ranked in the world’s top 1.3%.
02 Jun 2026
- 5 min read
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Continental water security this Africa Month
Dr John Okedi weighed in on sustainable water availability and safe sanitation systems as Africa Month concludes.
29 May 2026
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Rituals, re-membering and re-imagining
The dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development, Prof Kasturi Behari-Leak, delivered her inaugural lecture on 26 May.
29 May 2026
- 10 min read