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March 01, 2022 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Professor Ngoepe appointed as School of Arts Director

The former Chair of Unisa’s Department of Information Science, Professor Mpho Ngoepe, has been appointed Director of the School of Arts within the College of Human Sciences for a term of three years.

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March 01, 2022 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Examining peculiarities in the African Pentecostal tradition

Delivering his inaugural lecture, Professor Mookgo Kgatle said one needs to look at the importance of decolonisation in the church, move away from Eurocentric thinking and embrace African indigenous knowledge systems.

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December 10, 2021 | Category: Featured

How men can advance to the forefront of combating GBV

Unisa academic, Dr George Mkuzelwa Skosana, puts a spotlight on the contribution that men can make in the fight against GBV, and how socio-economic status of the country can contribute to rising GBV statistics.

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November 29, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

The College of Human Sciences exhibiting at the annual trade fair in Windhoek, Namibia

The Unisa Marketing team embarked on an African marketing drive, and exhibited at the Windhoek Industrial and Agricultural Show, as part of student recruitment from the 24th September to the 1st October 2021.

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November 29, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, ISHS institute, Corporate

Prof Shahnaaz Suffla from the ISHS inaugurated as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa PsySSA

Professor Shahnaaz Suffla from the Institute of Social and Health Sciences, a flagship Institute of the College for Human Sciences, was inaugurated as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa PsySSA) on the 16th November 2021.

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November 29, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, ISHS institute

Call for Papers Social and Health Sciences (SaHS) Journal Special Issue: Inclusive Energy Transitions for the South

The Social and Health Sciences (SaHS) journal invites submissions from the broader Global South, as well as the Global North for a special issue entitled Inclusive Energy Transitions for the South.

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November 19, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Engaged psychology for calamitous times

The primary focus of a recent Department of Psychology webinar was sharing and reiterating the importance of engaged scholarship, as well as encouraging and instilling an out-of-the-box style of thinking with regard to collaborating with other disciplines.

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November 08, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Her impactful art gives black women a voice

For Lethabo Huma, a Unisa visual multimedia student and one of the artists selected to be part of a Time Magazine project, art is a very personal craft that she uses to speak to the world about women's issues as she struggles to express herself verbally.

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October 06, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa, Luthuli Museum partnership goes from strength to strength

Prof Puleng Segalo was recently honoured with a traditional ceremony at the grave of Chief Albert Luthuli, further solidifying a remarkable partnership.

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