Posted on May 10, 2024
The Department of Social Work and Criminology celebrates the World Social Work Day 2024
Posted on March 08, 2024
International Women's Day champions inclusion, empowering women globally. Women in academia advocate for change, combatting gender-based violence.
Posted on August 08, 2023
Recognising and celebrating incredible contributions women make to academic community and beyond.
Posted on July 27, 2023
Mamiky Phiri is an exchange student on the Erasmus+ programme at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. She received a scholarship to study at Fachhochschule Kiel during the summer term 2023 (March-July 2023).
Posted on July 20, 2023
Research by the University of Pretoria (UP) has demonstrated the importance of community policing forums in fighting crime in high-risk environments, such as in Johannesburg.
Posted on June 13, 2023
International Albinism Awareness Day. Theme: "Inclusion is Strength."
Posted on April 12, 2023
This year, World Social Work Day (WSWD2023) fell on South Africa’s Human Rights Day, 21 March. To celebrate the occasion, the Social Work and Criminology Department at the University of Pretoria (UP) organised three separate events between 17-28 March 2023 that broadly addressed the theme...
Posted on February 27, 2023
The Department of Social Work and Criminology at the University of Pretoria is saddened by the passing of Prof Vollie Spies on Sunday, 26 February 2023.
Posted on March 04, 2022
Elmien Classens speaks on PoortFM about communication in families, its relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic and also the general challenges of communication amongst families in South Africa.
Posted on December 31, 2021
SACSSP MOURNS THE PASSING OF ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU
Posted on June 25, 2021
During the past 14 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused most families to experience immense stress. Families and communities have been, and continue to be exposed to changes, such as having to work from home, the closing of child care centres and home schooling. Social distancing has caused...
Posted on May 13, 2021
Humans are resilient and have adapted to sudden and unexpected events such as COVID-19. And, as is characteristic of our work, the Department of Social Work and Criminology responded quickly and shifted our academic course work and practical community work to virtual platforms.
Posted on March 19, 2021
On 16 March 2021, social work academics and students joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Social Work Day (WSWD) with the theme ‘Ubuntu: Strengthening social solidarity and global connectivity’.
Posted on November 27, 2020
This year, first-year students from the Department of Social Work and Criminology heeded President Ramaphosa’s call to participate in the Jerusalema challenge. They were encouraged to do so by their Criminology lecturer, Professor Booyens, who felt that it would be effective to keep the...
Posted on October 11, 2020
The theme Mental Health for All. Greater Investment – Greater Access. Everyone, everywhere... is most timely for World Mental Health Day 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought great distractions and massive challenges around the world. Uncertainty and major changes to the way we live...
Posted on June 17, 2020
Why do mothers abandon their babies? Where are the mothers’ families? Where is the biological father of the baby? A family should provide security and care, nurturance, and protection.
Posted on May 29, 2020
In an effort to continue supporting students during the COVID-19 pandemic, various faculties and units at the University of Pretoria (UP) have rolled out projects and initiatives to make this difficult period more manageable for our student body.
Posted on May 25, 2020
The release of offenders during the COVID-19 crisis is not unique to South Africa – many countries have pardoned thousands of prisoners in order to convert prisons into medical facilities or to create social distancing.
Posted on May 06, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Professor Christiaan Bezuidenhout from the Faculty of Humanities has been selected as a principal candidate for the Fulbright South African Research Scholar Program (SARSP) for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Posted on April 30, 2020
Despite several calls by smokers and the legal tobacco industry, on 29 April, government confirmed its uncompromising stance on the ban. Strangely, this announcement follows only six days after President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that government planned to lift the tobacco ban as South Africa...
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