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2021-10-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Prof Mamba recognised as true water research legend

The Executive Dean of CSET recently garnered a coveted Knowledge Tree Award, recognising his significant contributions to and impact on the water science domain as part of his pursuit of excellence.

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2021-10-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, Research news, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured

NSTF-South32 triple nomination honour for exceptional Unisan

Thrilled to have been nominated in three categories of the 2020/2021 NSTF-South32 Awards, Unisa's Prof Marcia Mkansi says that the nominations create visibility and attract industry, academic and government partners to collaborate with her and other researchers, to play a more meaningful role in the transformation of Africa.

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2021-08-27 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Dpt of Jurisprudence, Research news, College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Critically engaging with the identities of "man" and "animal"

Prof Jan-Harm de Villiers from Unisa's Department of Jurisprudence was awarded the 2020 Principal's Prize for Excellence in Research. His project foregrounds the challenges accompanying the utilisation of law in service of animal liberation.

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2021-08-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

How to increase quality publications at Unisa

Academic, administrative, and professional staff and postgraduate students came together at the first Research Methodology Indaba hosted by SIRGS in the College of Graduate Studies to unpack research methodologies.

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2021-08-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, Research news, Corporate

How to inject ‘equitable care’ into online learning

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown huge challenges in the path of universities, but they owe it to their lecturers and students not to emphasise rigour and efficiency at the expense of support and community building. This was one of the messages to emerge from Unisa’s recent ODeL Virtual Conference.

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2021-08-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, Research news, Corporate

Unisa celebrates its crème of the crop researchers

A total of 80 awards were presented when the university held its maiden online annual Research and Innovation awards ceremony. "It is not only dedication through their research that the awardees have displayed but they go beyond demonstrating passion - they went further to find solutions."

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2021-07-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Highest international research recognition for outstanding Unisan

Based on his research leadership, Professor Les Labuschagne has become one of only four South Africans to be awarded the highest recognition granted by the International Professional Recognition Council.

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2021-07-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Education, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Expert scholar keen to indigenise the academic project

Having deservedly obtained a C1 NRF rating, Prof Mishack Gumbo says that the rating completes his scholarly leadership locally, regionally and internationally, as his application was subjected to a rigorous peer review by experts in his field.

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2021-06-22 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Producing high-quality research is the goal

Having advanced from a Y2 to a C2 NRF research rating, Prof Felix Bankole says that the recognition shows the impact and quality of his research outputs in the field of computing.

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