Posted on December 13, 2024
Our Department’s KRM 710 (Crime and Criminal Justice) module has a community engagement component. The focus of this year’s project was to empower female inmates of the Atteridgeville Gender Responsive correctional centre by raising awareness of the impact of domestic violence (DV)...
Posted on November 19, 2024
Every 19 November, World Toilet Day, a United Nations observance campaign, encourages governments and the private sector to address the global sanitation crisis.
Posted on October 10, 2024
As we mark World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2024, the theme "Mental Health at Work" is particularly relevant for the University of Pretoria. The pressures of academic life—including deadlines, high expectations, and constant demands—can significantly impact the mental health of...
Posted on October 01, 2024
As we observe the International Day of Older Persons, it's important to reflect on a group that is often overlooked—older prison inmates. Dr Karen Booyens and Prof Stephan Geyer from the University of Pretoria discuss the growing population of elderly prisoners and the unique challenges...
Posted on June 26, 2024
The global day of parenting recognises the “selfless commitment to children and their lifelong sacrifice towards nurturing this relationship”1. Parenting is a lifelong commitment to the nurturing, care, love and support of children
Posted on June 04, 2024
Prof Antoinette Lombard, Head of Department of Social Work and Criminology at the University of Pretoria Becomes First South African Woman to Lead the International Association of Schools of Social Work
Posted on May 10, 2024
The Department of Social Work and Criminology celebrates the World Social Work Day 2024
Posted on March 08, 2024
International Women's Day champions inclusion, empowering women globally. Women in academia advocate for change, combatting gender-based violence.
Posted on August 08, 2023
Recognising and celebrating incredible contributions women make to academic community and beyond.
Posted on July 27, 2023
Mamiky Phiri is an exchange student on the Erasmus+ programme at Kiel University of Applied Sciences. She received a scholarship to study at Fachhochschule Kiel during the summer term 2023 (March-July 2023).
Posted on July 20, 2023
Research by the University of Pretoria (UP) has demonstrated the importance of community policing forums in fighting crime in high-risk environments, such as in Johannesburg.
Posted on June 13, 2023
International Albinism Awareness Day. Theme: "Inclusion is Strength."
Posted on April 12, 2023
This year, World Social Work Day (WSWD2023) fell on South Africa’s Human Rights Day, 21 March. To celebrate the occasion, the Social Work and Criminology Department at the University of Pretoria (UP) organised three separate events between 17-28 March 2023 that broadly addressed the theme...
Posted on February 27, 2023
The Department of Social Work and Criminology at the University of Pretoria is saddened by the passing of Prof Vollie Spies on Sunday, 26 February 2023.
Posted on March 04, 2022
Elmien Classens speaks on PoortFM about communication in families, its relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic and also the general challenges of communication amongst families in South Africa.
Posted on December 31, 2021
SACSSP MOURNS THE PASSING OF ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS DESMOND TUTU
Posted on June 25, 2021
During the past 14 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused most families to experience immense stress. Families and communities have been, and continue to be exposed to changes, such as having to work from home, the closing of child care centres and home schooling. Social distancing has caused...
Posted on May 13, 2021
Humans are resilient and have adapted to sudden and unexpected events such as COVID-19. And, as is characteristic of our work, the Department of Social Work and Criminology responded quickly and shifted our academic course work and practical community work to virtual platforms.
Posted on March 19, 2021
On 16 March 2021, social work academics and students joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Social Work Day (WSWD) with the theme ‘Ubuntu: Strengthening social solidarity and global connectivity’.
Posted on November 27, 2020
This year, first-year students from the Department of Social Work and Criminology heeded President Ramaphosa’s call to participate in the Jerusalema challenge. They were encouraged to do so by their Criminology lecturer, Professor Booyens, who felt that it would be effective to keep the...
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