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April 02, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences
From explicit to implicit attitudes to accents
Professor Pedro Álvarez-Mosquera of the University of Salamanca, Spain, a research fellow in Unisa's Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, presented his observations on the linguistic landscape of South Africa at a departmental colloquium.
April 02, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
But is it drinkable - or not?
Unisa's Suvania Naidoo, winner of the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Research, was part of a group that presented a workshop at Water Show Africa. She says that conflicting perceptions of water quality are a result of vested interests that vary according to the group of stakeholders, their professional stance and use for water.
April 01, 2019 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate
When life and art blur in the theatre
At this year's Research & Innovation awards ceremony, Dr Lida Krüger received the 2018 Senate Publications Committee Thesis Publication award for her thesis titled The actual versus the fictional in Betrayal, The real thing and Closer.
April 01, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Research on theology of Brexit shows nostalgia for 'empire'
Britain's planned exit from the European Union is a political hot potato, but Brexit is as much about theology as it is about politics, says Unisa researcher Prof Anthony Reddie.
March 28, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
With Unisa, everything is possible!
Linda Maponyane's Facebook post From domestic worker to tea girl to Unisa graduate made her a social media star and profiles the university as an institution making a difference in the HE sector and the country at large.
March 28, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Unisan to head prestigious science publication
ASSAf has announced the appointment of Prof Jane Carruthers as Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of Science.
March 27, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
First Lady celebrates Unisa student's achievement
Dr Tshepo Motsepe attended the graduation of Livhuwani Maphorogo, who studied towards her BA Honours Degree in Psychology with full support from the Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust.
March 15, 2019 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, News, Corporate
Unisa mourns death of African scholar in Ethiopian plane crash
Friends and associates are organising an afternoon of tribute for Prof Pius Adebola Adesanmi at 15:00 on Friday (15 March 2019). The venue is the Kwame Nkrumah Hall in the Robert Sobukwe Building. Please join us if you can.
March 01, 2019 | Category:
Lead, Dept religious
From Molimo to the Christian God
Dr Sepetla Molapo interrogates the Protestant Christian missionaries’ translation of Molimo into the Christian God among the 19th Century Southern Africa Sotho speakers. He was hosted by Unisa’s College of Human Sciences in the Department of Religious Studies and Arabic.