Prof Emmanuel Lartey honoured

Posted on April 30, 2018

Prof Emmanuel Lartey, the leading African scholar in the field of practical theology, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria.

In seminar with Prof Tom Long

Posted on April 09, 2018

The well-known Prof Tom Long recently visited South Africa. On 19 and 20 March the Department of Practical Theology together with Excelsus at the University of Pretoria hosted him.

'A Place to Call Home' project launch

Posted on March 19, 2018

In recent years, the City of Tshwane, the Tshwane Homelessness Forum, the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa entered into a social contract focused on the issue of housing scarcity which led to the establishment of a research project entitled Pathways out of Homelessness.

Practical Theology partners with Humboldt University

Posted on February 15, 2018

In early February 2018, the Department of Practical Theology in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria teamed up with a delegation from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany

PhD within reach of young and old

Posted on February 13, 2018

Dr Hilton Scott will be one of the youngest students to be conferred the PhD degree in Practical Theology at the April 2018 graduation ceremony, at the age of twenty-nine.

Prof Dreyer honoured as practical theologian and feminist scholar

Posted on January 25, 2018

During the annual meeting of the Society for Practical Theology in South Africa, Prof Dreyer was presented with a Festschrift.

Space, spirituality and a community-based urban praxis

Posted on November 30, 2017

Dr Stephan de Beer recently received his second PhD degree at UP.

Research at UP — a retrospective review now published

Posted on November 22, 2017

The production of the annual Research Review is always a highlight in the research calendar of the University of Pretoria, and the Research Review 2016 was no exception.