Featured Research: Wellness & Wellbeing

Lecture

'Implications of a Green Economic Recovery for South Africa'

South Africa faces the challenge of promoting short-term economic recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while ensuring long-term, environmentally sustainable prosperity. The research described here explores the tensions and opportunities presented by this challenge from two different modelling exercises. The results reveal that economic recovery, without strong green policies, will...

Lecture

‘Ubuntu’s Implications for Philosophical Ethics'

Is there one thing that all morally wrong actions have in common? Western philosophers have searched for an answer to that question for nearly 400 years, and have focused on the features of causing harm, on the one hand, and degrading autonomy,on the other. Prof Metz considers how we could answer the question by appealing to the southern African ethic of ubuntu, and argues that its implications...

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Disaster triggers solidarity rather than disruption among South Africans

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 professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria (UP) and Director of the University’s Centre for the Study of Resilience.

Talking Point

Studying and doing research in isolation: A guide to thriving

When South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a nationwide lockdown on 23 March 2020, academic institutions were faced with a new reality and concerns about how to resume the academic year.

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UP unveils world-class biomechanics lab

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI) recently opened the doors to its new Biomechanics Lab, which is already providing support services to TuksSport’s first teams as well as elite track and field athletes, some of whom participated in the recent World Championships.

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Smartphone technology based on UP research helps young children with hearing and vision problems

A two-minute smartphone test can identify hearing and vision problems before children even start school according to new research published in the prestigious Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.