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Dr Jarred H. Martin has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Psychology & Sexuality, an international journal dedicated to publishing research that...

On Youth Day, we celebrate the brave young people of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, and honour the role they played in fighting to empower youth. Yet today, the...

Dr Ahmed Riaz Mohamed recently graduated from both the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (28 May 2025) and North-West University (04 Jun 2025) with a PhD in...

Opinion: Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education Rather than confusing children, gender-responsive pedagogy provides them with the language and...

Ruth Kolevsohn's article, Civil Society Has a Key Role in Fighting Corruption, which appeared in Africa in Fact (pages 61-63), highlights the transformative...

Township-dwelling South African youth who rise above their day-to-day circumstances are not naturally more resilient than others, while civil society, the...

Morkie the dog has been much more than a loving companion to University of Pretoria (UP) graduate Dr Suné Scholtz – in fact, the 15-year-old Maltese-Yorkshire...

Every year, the University of Pretoria (UP) observes International Women’s Day on 8 March, and this year, it is supporting the global call to action to...

The Department of Educational Psychology’s training facility is on the first floor of the Aldoel Building, Groenkloof Campus. The department offers a...

South Africans have been found to tend towards flocking instead of taking flight as a resilience response. This is according to Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, a...

South Africans have been found to tend towards flocking instead of taking flight as a resilience response. This is according to Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, a...

The University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted Africa’s first Nobel Prize Dialogue, the theme of which was ‘The Future of Work’. Broadcast online from the...

The postponement of the reopening of schools is a fait accompli, and it is up to all of us to manage yet another COVID-19 curveball in an emotionally and...

“COVID-19 will probably not be the last pandemic. If we don’t build resource capacity, we’re going to be in more trouble. And if we don’t build a youth that...

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...

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...

Dr Funke Omidire from the Department of Educational Psychology has received the 2019 EASA Emerging Researcher Award at the EASA Conference in January 2019 It...

The world of work is changing all the time. In the past, people would probably choose one career and stick to it for the rest of their lives, gradually climbing...

Five staff members were also awarded the PhD degree. They were Dr Nosipho Jaca with Dr Teresa Ogina as Supervisor. She did her thesis on ‘Investigating...

Professor Ruth Mampane, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology, was inaugurated as Head on 21 June 2018. The event was attended by colleagues, family...