Posted on June 18, 2022
Newsletter Issue 1 June 2022
Posted on May 19, 2022
The Centre for the Study of Resilience views Mental Health and understanding young people's needs and resilience in challenging contexts as an important field of study. Please visit the link below for a newsitem featuring Prof. Linda Theron from the CSR and her interview on eNCA.
Posted on June 10, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has collaborated with Pennsylvania State University to translate a global learning tool into local languages to support learners in how they think about content.
Posted on April 23, 2020
The 5th volume of Teaching Psychology Around the World (edited by Grant, J Rich, Luis Alfredo Padilla Lopez, Liesel Ebersöhn, Jacqui Taylor and Shirley Morrissey) is now available
Posted on April 17, 2020
Professor Liesel Ebersöhn recently wrote an article for the Mail & Guardian on resilience-responses from Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Ebersöhn, director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience at the University of Pretoria and secretary-general of the World Education...
Posted on April 01, 2020
We believe that psychosocial support is critical in the face of COVID 19. It builds our resilience to face this threat and gives us determination to overcome.
Posted on February 12, 2020
Nurturing resilience: A multi-systemic model for positive development in contexts of diversity. Adolescent Resilience to Environmental and Socioeconomic Challenges: A Study of Multiple Systems Short-title: RYSE-RuSA
Posted on February 06, 2020
The annual Advisory Board Meeting for the Centre for the Study of Resilience was held on 25 February 2019
Posted on December 06, 2019
Carine Jonker was the recipient of the UP Post Graduate Study Abroad Programme which funded a research visit to Prof Caroline Mansfield (Dean of the School of Education) at the University of Notre Dame, Australia.
Posted on December 05, 2019
One year ago United Nations Academic Impact announced the inauguration of the UNAI SDG Hubs, UNAI member institutions selected as exemplars for their innovative scholarship and engagement related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) who serve as resources for best practices for the UNAI...
Posted on December 03, 2019
A systematic review of resilience-enabling educational psychology pathways in challenged education spaces in Africa
Posted on October 22, 2019
Nomonde Ntsundwana, a teacher at a Nelson Mandela Metropol primary school, has taken her role of educator beyond the classroom. As a champion of nutrition and school gardens, she leads a strong team of teachers, students and community members that supports the production of nutritious food...
Posted on October 22, 2019
Celeste Combrinck was the first recipient of the WERA Visiting Researcher Award. The award is a joint collaboration by the World Education Research Association (WERA) and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) to contribute to the advancement of...
Posted on October 16, 2019
Prof Tawana Kupe, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, presided over a Resilience Dialogue and Ideas Lab at Future Africa on 14 October 2019. The panel was titled Transdisciplinary Flocking: Afrocentric Resilience Knowledge to Address Global Challenges and was informed...
Posted on October 16, 2019
Prof Tawana Kupe, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, presided over a Resilience Dialogue and Ideas Lab at Future Africa on 14 October 2019.
Posted on September 17, 2019
CSR Director, Liesel Ebersöhn, recently wrote an article on flocking
Posted on August 30, 2019
Professor Liesel Ebersöhn (Director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience, University of Pretoria) has been elected to a second four-year term as Secretary General for the World Education Research Association (WERA).
Posted on August 27, 2019
A book penned by University of Pretoria (UP) academic, Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, Director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience in the Faculty of Education, aims to deconstruct the idea of Ubuntu and ultimately shed some light on why we behave the way we do and why we are able to do better...
Posted on August 23, 2019
A new publication by one of our faculty members, Prof Liesel Ebersöhn. This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in...
Posted on November 01, 2018
The RYSE study is a cutting-edge, funded study that is taking place in Canada and South Africa
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