EMS honours research and teaching excellence

Posted on June 21, 2018

Academic staff in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were honoured for the excellence they achieved in teaching and learning, as well as research, at the prestigious annual EMS Awards Function, which was held on 6 June 2018.

SPMA staff boasts a full set of doctoral degrees

Posted on May 22, 2018

In its 25th anniversary year, the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) goes full circle. The SPMA this year has an academic staff complement of 13 academics, who all now have doctoral degrees.

Conversation Series

Posted on May 22, 2018

On 20 April 2018, the School of Public Management and Administration hosted the first Conversation Series of the year at the UP Conference Centre. Prof William Gumede, who is the Chairperson of Democracy Works Foundation and a Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of...

SPMA hosts article-writing workshop

Posted on April 11, 2018

During the week of 12 to 16 March 2018, the School for Public Management and Administration (SPMA) hosted Prof Michiel de Vries from the Radboud University in the Netherlands to facilitate a writing workshop for all colleagues.

UP renews extensive partnership with Kehl University

Posted on March 09, 2018

UP’s School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) has renewed its Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) of Friendship and Cooperation with the Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung Kehl – University of Applied Sciences (Kehl University).

Dr Mazenda participates in research staff exchange in Germany

Posted on February 16, 2018

Dr Adrino Mazenda, lecturer in the School of Public Management and Administration, visited the University of Applied Sciences in West Germany from 14 to 26 January 2018. The visit was a research staff exchange on the topic of migration and food security, funded by the University of...

SPMA academics present at EduLearn Conference in Spain

Posted on September 13, 2017

Ms Brenda Vivian and Prof Lianne Malan from the School of Public Management and Administration delivered a paper at the EduLearn Conference in Barcelona, Spain, during July 2017, entitled ‘Discipline embedded academic literacy interventions: evaluating an instructional scaffolding and...

Prof Thornhill to serve as African co-editor of Local Economy journal

Posted on September 07, 2017

The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit of the London South Bank University, published by Sage, has appointed Prof Chris Thornhill as its co-editor for Africa, effective from August 2017. Prof Thornhill, professor emeritus in the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA), brings...