Please join the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) in congratulating Dr Melanie Murcott in the Department of Public Law on her selection as a participant in the DHET Future Professors Programme Phase 1: Cohort 2. 

According to the DHET's call for applications, the objectives of this programme are 'to prepare promising early career academics to become a new cohort of South African professors across the disciplines. The Call, the second of three in successive years, seeks to identify a group of the country’s most talented young academics to benefit from a structured and intense programme aimed at accelerating their readiness for the professoriate. Thus, it aims to produce a critical mass of academic excellence and leadership within South African Higher Education.’

Murcott is one of only three UP academics selected to partake in this programme. Her selection follows a rigorous review of all nominees by a selection panel with recommendations made to the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande.

In her congratulatory note to Murcott, Dean Elsabe Schoeman writes that 'This is a wonderful opportunity and UP Law wishes Dr Murcott the very best. Congratulations, Melanie, this is well deserved and as a Faculty we are very proud of you!'