2020-11-16 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Trailblazer in nano to lighten the electricity load
Boitumelo Mafalo Mabakachaba, a research student in the UNESCO–Unisa Africa Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, focuses on the development of energy-saving and power-efficient materials at nanoscale in response to the tremendous increase in energy consumption and the need for small and compact electronic devices.
2020-11-03 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Corporate
Wooc-hoo! Get (or create) that dream job
Unisa’s College of Graduate Studies believes that students should know how to market their acquired skill sets on social platforms. So its first WhatsApp Open Online Course will prepare postgrads and staff to be certified Facebook Marketing Associates by giving them access to rich course content, quizzes, mentors, and study groups.
2020-11-02 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Corporate
Why a South African community mistrusts big industry and what needs to change
The country hasn’t successfully developed institutional capacity and the government skills to manage industrial risks to communities and the environment, writes Unisa’s Professor Llewellyn Leonard in The Conversation. Risk communication must be viewed as a process for mutual learning and deliberation to inform scientific knowledge
2020-10-28 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Corporate
Preserving stories through audiovisual media
As the international community observes World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October, Unisa experts weigh in on the importance of migrating content to the latest technology when the one in use becomes obsolete. “We ought to make sure that all the footage we own is transferred digitally as we cannot afford to lose such treasures.”
2020-10-27 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Corporate
Unisa joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
“Unisa Library and Information Services wishes to align itself with a credible and long-standing body that brings together communities and shares lessons learned,” explains Daisy Selematsela, Executive Director. “By making connections with other world-class organisations, we hope to apply these lessons to our own work in support of the university’s aims.”
2020-10-23 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Innovative monitoring for postgrads
Dr Memme Makua, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement in the College of Graduate Studies, has been awarded DHET funding for the development of the online M&D Students' Supervision and Monitoring Dashboard - a CGS project to quality assure postgraduate student engagement across all colleges.
2020-10-23 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Corporate
African scholarship and indigenous ways of knowing
The CGS School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies at Unisa hosted a seminar series to engage on the rich and diverse epistemologies and languages that constitute an important component of the heritage of the world's peoples, and how these relate to decolonising higher education on the continent.
2020-10-22 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
What South African women told us about being the main breadwinner
Although society portrays a woman who earns a living as free and empowered, outdated values and stereotypes still promote discrimination against female breadwinners, writes Unisa's Dr Bianca Parry.
2020-10-21 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Research news, Corporate
Research in a pandemic: It's all about trust
Prof Ames Dhai said at the launch of the Community of Practice for Research Ethics and Integrity Professionals in Gauteng, a joint initiative between Unisa, the DSI, SARIMA and Wits, that rapid review does not mean rushed. Ethical standards and quality of review cannot be compromised, and rapid review cannot mean you curtail important ethical discussion.