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March 18, 2022 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured
Top EPHA honours for Unisa PhD graduate
Ethiopian national and Unisa alumnus Dr Bekele Beayihun recently received a gold medal as a ‘Young public health researcher’ at the 33rd Annual Scientific Conference of the Ethiopian Public Health Association.
March 07, 2022 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Death in abundance versus life in abundance in the context of Covid-19 and poverty
Covid-19 forced us to face our universal fear of death. How do the poor who don’t have the resources to seek professional help, deal with the grief of multiple deaths of loved ones? This was the focus of Professor Olehile Buffel’s inaugural lecture.
March 04, 2022 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
College of Human Sciences appoints new Manager of Teaching, Learning, Community Engagement and Student Support
“Through Moodle, we can transform the way we deliver our study material and engage deeply and successfully with our students,” says newly appointed CHS Teaching, Learning, Community Engagement and Student Support Manager, Dr Suvania Naidoo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.