Dear colleagues, 

The sixth edition of RE.SEARCH is available Research Matters.

I’m very proud that in this edition, all nine UP faculties as well as our business school, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, are represented. 

Thank you to all the contributors for sharing your research with us in order to open our research up to a wider audience, particularly our donors, funders, and other influential stakeholders. Contributors can choose to receive one of the very limited print copies we have of each edition.

The theme for the seventh edition is: Just Transitions, which you can interpret as widely as you’d like to. Please ensure that you make the link between the theme and your research clear in your submission. I hope that once again, we have contributions from across the institution. Some questions to guide your thinking when you draft your article are attached. We welcome submissions from all levels of researchers and postgraduates. Please submit your early bird submission as an article in Microsoft Word format to [email protected] by 25 August 2023.

At UP, we pride ourselves on living up to our motto; “make today matter”. With this simple declaration, we have set our sights on changing the world for the better and creating the positive future that we would like to see through the value of the actions we take today.

That is why this edition of RE.SEARCH is particularly special, as each article demonstrates the impact that UP is making – how we are opening the doors to the future world that we want to see manifest. Once again, there’s something for everyone’s interests – from art to banking, artificial intelligence to gastro-tourism and surgery.

We believe in scholarship with a sense of ubuntu: by sharing our resources and collaborating. In doing so, we aspire to create a bedrock of quality education to open the doors of learning in order to build the next generation of researchers and to show how UP is working to open up the world in so many ways.

In order to share our research and its impact more widely, we kindly ask that you change your email signature banner* to the one attached and hyperlink it to the magazine’s landing page at www.up.ac.za/research-matters/magazine  

Best regards,

Professor Themba Mosia

Interim Vice-Chancellor and Principal