Rare honours and international recognition for UCT research managers
AchieversLatest newsResearchUniversity of Cape Town June 9, 2021
UCT staff members Natalie Le Roux (senior research manager in the Research Office) and Sidney Engelbrecht (manager: Research Ethics and Compliance in the Faculty of Health Sciences) both obtained Research Management Professional (RMP) status. The two received this honour during the first opportunity afforded to Africa’s research managers to receive this... Read more
“Blesser-Blessee” Relationships Explored in Master’s Research
Latest newsResearchUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal June 4, 2021
Understanding ‘blesser-blessee’ relationships through the perspectives and experiences of students was the subject of a study by Ms Nomazulu Singata who graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). ‘Blesser-blessee’ relationships is a social phenomenon which sees wealthy men and poorer women linked for material gain. Singata... Read more
African Elephant Management in Research Spotlight
Latest newsResearchUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal June 3, 2021
Having done her masters at UKZN – supervised by Professor Rob Slotow – on the costs and consequences of immunocontraception implementation in elephants, it was only natural that Dr Audrey Delsink continued with doctoral research at the same institution and with the same supervisor. Now she has a PhD... Read more
Stellenbosch University establishes online registry for Long COVID study
Latest newsResearchStellenbosch University May 31, 2021
If you are suffering from Long COVID, then Prof Resia Pretorius from the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU) would like to document your symptoms in a South African online registry. And if you are living in the Western Cape, she also wants a sample of your... Read more
UKZN academic part of ground-breaking language research
AchieversLatest newsResearchUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal May 21, 2021
Professor Jochen Zeller, Associate Professor in Linguistics in the College of Humanities, is part of an international research team, led by experts from the University of Birmingham and the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, that discovered that iconic vocalisations can convey a much wider range of meanings more accurately... Read more
Do people use digital media as much as they think they do?
Latest newsResearchStellenbosch University May 18, 2021
Most studies linking media use with wellbeing use self-reported estimates of media use, but a new analysis of data from over 50 000 individuals suggests that self-reported media use does not accurately reflect objective measures of device-logged media use. This implies that caution is needed when drawing wide-reaching conclusions from... Read more
Mandela University researchers focus on national student entrepreneurship project
AchieversEastern CapeLatest newsNelson Mandela UniversityResearch May 17, 2021
Business Management’s Prof Shelley Farrington, as local promoter, and masters’ student Riyaad Ismael as lead researcher, have been focussing on the identification and distribution of best practices in university-based student entrepreneurship support and creating a student entrepreneurship development tool. Their research forms part of an international collaborative project entitled... Read more
Fungal infections might be dangerous to COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU
Free StateLatest newsResearchUniversity of the Free State May 17, 2021
COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms who end up in intensive care units in hospitals are at risk of contracting an invasive fungal infection that might influence their outcomes and hamper treatment efforts. These fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients on ventilators may contribute to the high mortality rate of these... Read more
Indigenous South African oral cultures a potential environmental knowledge system
Latest newsResearchUniversity of the Free State May 14, 2021
Two researchers from the University of the Free State (UFS) aim with their research to examine the portrayal of environmental conservation in oral stories from indigenous South African cultures. They also hope to add the under-researched genres of oral cultures to mainstream inter-/cross-/multi-disciplinary inquiries on environmentalism, the climate crisis,... Read more
New discovery lands NWU researcher a spot in top science publication
AchieversLatest newsNorth-West UniversityResearch May 12, 2021
When magnetic fields and long strokes of hot gas known as jets interact, the jets become bent. This is an important discovery and, for his contribution to it, Prof James O Chibueze has earned a space in the prestigious research publication Nature. An associate professor at the North-West University’s Centre... Read more
