The College of Humanities Research Office team serves three campuses: Howard College, Edgewood and Pietermaritzburg. Professor Pholoho Justice Morojele, a Commonwealth scholar, former Academic Leader: Research and Postgraduate Studies in the School of Education, and an Associate Professor of Gender and Social Justice Education, has been the acting Dean of Research from 1st March 2016.
The College Research Office Headquarters is in Howard College (Ground Floor of the MTB Building), where responsibilities are divided between Postgraduate Studies and Research. In the former is Thuli Bekwa, and in the latter is Thobile Myeni, who is also Prof Morojele’s administrator. In Edgewood, postgraduate matters are dealt with by Tyzer Khumalo; and in Pietermaritzburg by Beulah Jacobsen and Belinda Davis, as well as Karen Sophie (Education). There is a good mixture of experience and new blood, as well as a healthy diversity among the staff.
The College of Humanities Research Office team serves three campuses: Howard College, Edgewood and Pietermaritzburg. Professor Pholoho Justice Morojele, a Commonwealth scholar, former Academic Leader: Research and Postgraduate Studies in the School of Education, and an Associate Professor of Gender and Social Justice Education, has been the acting Dean of Research from 1st March 2016.
The College Research Office Headquarters is in Howard College (Ground Floor of the MTB Building), where responsibilities are divided between Postgraduate Studies and Research. In the former is Thuli Bekwa, and in the latter is Thobile Myeni, who is also Prof Morojele’s administrator. In Edgewood, postgraduate matters are dealt with by Tyzer Khumalo; and in Pietermaritzburg by Beulah Jacobsen and Belinda Davis, as well as Karen Sophie (Education). There is a good mixture of experience and new blood, as well as a healthy diversity among the staff.
As the College Research Offices serve 4300 postgraduate students as well as some 450 permanent and temporary academic staff, they are busy places. But the track record of the staff in the new school-configuration model is excellent and we pride ourselves on being courteous and efficient.
I feel honoured to have the opportunity to work with the dedicated and innovative academics – seasoned scholars and novice ones, postdocs and postgraduate students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The College of Humanities is making a positive impact on the social fabric of South Africa and Africa. It is also increasingly playing a global role.
It is part of my vision to ensure that the College will continue to pursue research that will improve the quality of life for all sectors of South Africa’s and Africa’s population. My Office will assist in producing research and knowledge that will provide the training ground for tomorrow’s leaders in society that will never stop in their attempts to better Humanity.
I am proud to be associated with a College whose research is growing both in breadth and depth – all the hard work of highly experienced and dedicated scholars. I am committed to strengthen the research culture in the College and will work endlessly to create an environment in which research will flourish and scholarly career dreams come true.
The College of Humanities Research Office team serves three campuses: Howard College, Edgewood and Pietermaritzburg.
The College Research Office Headquarters is in Howard College (Ground Floor of the MTB Building), where responsibilities are divided between Postgraduate Studies and Research. In the former is Thuli Bekwa, and in the latter is Thobile Myeni, who is also Prof Morojele’s administrator. In Edgewood, postgraduate matters are dealt with by Tyzer Khumalo; and in Pietermaritzburg by Beulah Jacobsen and Belinda Davis, as well as Karen Sophie (Education). There is a good mixture of experience and new blood, as well as a healthy diversity among the staff.
As the College Research Offices serve 4300 postgraduate students as well as some 450 permanent and temporary academic staff, they are busy places. But the track record of the staff in the new school-configuration model is excellent and we pride ourselves on being courteous and efficient.
The research objective of the Research Chair in Economic Development is to explore the interface between households and labour markets in South Africa, advancing knowledge across a range of socio-economic areas, including those relating to union formation, mobility, child care, household survival strategies and resource sharing, labour force participation and employment....
The Chair aims to produce top level research output with policy relevance in analysing and documenting the ways in which childhood sexualities and gender are experienced, enacted and the effects for gender inequalities. It will grow a cohort of postgraduate students in the field of sexualities/gender as it aims to provide a systematic evidence base and advanced research and interventions that can benefit young people and ensure commitment to sexual health, gender equality and quality education...
The aims of the Chair are in three interrelated areas of applied poverty reduction assessment: the ongoing improvement of the indicators that are used to reflect change; the analysis of the impact of poverty reducing interventions; and investigating wider dynamics that offset or contribute towards desired policy goals.....
The NRF rating system is a key driver in the NRF’s aim to build a globally competitive science system in South Africa. It is a valuable tool for benchmarking the quality of our researchers against the best in the world. NRF ratings are allocated based on a researcher’s recent research outputs and impact as perceived by international peer reviewers. The rating system encourages researchers to publish high quality outputs in high impact journals/outlets. Rated researchers as supervisors will impart cutting-edge skills to the next generation of researchers.
