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2025-02-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Unisa offers incarcerated women pathways to rehabilitation and integration

In a groundbreaking initiative intended to sow the seeds of change and empowerment, the Inside-out Outside-in South African Corrections Interest Group, located in the university’s Department of Psychology, recently joined hands with the Department of Correctional Services in hosting a transformative career day exhibition for women serving prison sentences.

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2025-02-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Corporate

Dual honour for Unisa sports psychologist

Trailblazing Unisan Dr Koketjo Tsebe has been awarded the Limpopo MEC's Excellence Award in Sports Psychology, and was further celebrated as a catalyst for change among the 100 South African Shining Stars, an event hosted by the Inside Education Foundation.

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2021-04-28 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Featured, Dept psychology, Corporate

Influential researcher builds on the body of knowledge

Having moved from a Y-rating to a C2-rating by the NRF, Unisa’s Professor Puleng Segalo is considered as an established researcher with a good track record of quality outputs

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2021-04-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept psychology, Research news, Corporate

Interrogating the factors that affect student success

The support recipe for student success is far more nuanced than generally assumed, as is borne out by the eye-opening research conducted by Dr Fortunate Silinda of Unisa's Department of Psychology.

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2021-03-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept psychology, Corporate

Unisa Chair of Department humbled by nomination

Dr Fortunate Silinda, a research psychologist in the Department of Psychology, has been nominated as an emerging researcher for the HSRC-USAf 2020 Medal for Social Sciences and Humanities.

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2021-03-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept psychology, Corporate

Learning from the story of pioneering South African writer Sindiwe Magona

A literary icon, her autobiographies offer a way of understanding the country's brutal past in order to heal and move forward, writes Unisa’s Puleng Segalo in The Conversation.

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2021-02-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Featured, Dept psychology, Research news, Corporate

Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised

Unisa’s Puleng Segalo and Julia Simango write in The Conversation that many societies on the continent still draw heavily on their traditional beliefs and cultural heritage and therefore it’s important to take these into consideration.

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