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Staff in the College of Humanities continue to excel and achieve highly in their respective fields.
Some of these achievements include Dr Lolie Makhubu-Badenhorst of the African Languages and Linguistics Cluster in the School of Arts being appointe head of the recently established KwaZulu-Natal Chapter of the South African Translators‘ Institute (SATI). The KZN Chapter was re-established under the banner of UKZN.
SATI is an association for language practice professionals in South Africa of which Makhubu-Badenhorst is an accredited member both on translation and simultaneous interpreting.
Ms Londeka Ngubane, of the School of Applied Human Sciences, was appointed by the Minister of Transport Dr Blade Nzimande to serve on a Panel of Experts in relation to a new transport system that he will be launching soon.
Among others, she will be providing direction and guidance to ensure integration and seamlessness within the transport sector while charting ways to modernise the transport system.
Jazz lecturer Mr Sibusiso Mashiloane has another accolade under his belt. His third album release Closer to Home was nominated for a South African Music Award (SAMA) in the category “Best Jazz Album”.
The College is extremely proud of what our staff members have achieved and I’m certain that they will keep flying the Humanities flag high.
Other high-flyers are third-year architecture students Ms Katelyn Gopaul and Mr Kreolin Naicker who placed first and second at the inaugural D’Urban Rise Inner City School Architectural Competition, winning R10 000 and R5 000 respectively at the Durban ICC.
The students provided a solution to inner-city regeneration by including a school in the inner-city environment.
Education Student Mr Luthando Molefe is among UKZN’s Top 40 Most Inspiring Students. He was nominated by his peers on the Edgewood campus and was one of the winners of the annual Spotlight on Greatness Competition that is reviewed by the University’s Corporate Relations Division.
This is not Molefe’s first UKZN milestone. His achievements include awards for academic excellence, community engagement and leadership skills/roles.
Making excellent headway as an emerging academic is our PhD Sociology Student Mr Shingirai Mugambiwa who received an award from AOSIS publishers for being the author of their most cited journal article in the field of Science, Technology and Innovation.
In the article, Mugambiwa identifies climate change as the greatest threat South Africa faces and proposes ways the country can overcome the effects of climate change in order to realise the goal.
The College recognises the significant achievements in teaching and research by our academics. They have paved the way for greater partnerships and collaborative efforts. We applaud the strides they have made and continue to make.
I am excited to officially launch the College’s inaugural Doctoral Academy. This is a historic moment for the College since it aims to equip new doctoral students with advanced knowledge and skills to conceptualize and write good quality and rigorous doctoral proposals for research in the humanities and social sciences.
The first of four research seminars was held at the Unite Building to equip students with the required scientific writing skills for doctoral studies.
As a College, we aim to produce PhDs of the highest quality that can compete at an international level and contribute to knowledge production on a global scale.
One such academic is Professor Rozena Maart, lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, who is now an International Research Ambassador to the University of Bremen in Germany.
The College is confident Maart will work towards building further links between UKZN and Bremen by bringing together researchers to share resources while extending those activities to postgraduate students as well as planning research meetings and events between the two institutions.
The College congratulates Dr Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo, lecturer in the School of Education for attaining his PhD in Education from Rhodes University.
His research is in the field of higher education decolonisation, with a specific focus on exploring ‘knowledge and knower structures in Political Studies’.
Myself together with Professors Ernest Khalema, Maheshvari Naidu, Nobuhle Hlongwa and Nogwaja Zulu met with Dr Saleem Badat of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to discuss research projects that were made possible through funding from the Foundation.
Khalema and Naidu are Principle Investigators in the Spatial Humanities Project. This exciting project utilises the Geographic Information System (GIS) to spatially map selected ethnographic sites in the context of social issues such as urbanisation and migration flows, as well to map various cultural processes and spatial dispersion.
Zulu and Hlongwa are the Principal Investigators for the Artists-in-Residency project. The Project aims to recruit, support and collaborate with emerging and experienced artists from across South Africa and the African continent and to strengthen relations between academics and community-based artists, and between the University and cultural institutions in Durban as well as from across South Africa.
The College prides itself on its teaching excellence, striving for new and innovative ways to enhance teaching methods while simultaneously producing critical, analytical and problem-solving young adults. Below are some of these initiatives that the College supports.
The Student and Teacher Enhancement Programme, emanating from the School of Education, enhances pre-service and in-service teachers’ experiences with regard to Sustainable Living, and Values-based and Social Entrepreneurship Education through creativity, reasoning, language usage, critical thinking and action.
The College is confident that this programme will improve the quality of teaching and learning that can be possible in schools across the country.
Community Development lecturer Dr Zifikile Phindile Shangase is working on a collaboration project – Virtual Classroom Africa – between the School of Built Environment and Development Studies and the English Department at the University of Botswana (UNIBO).
A virtual classroom will be set up for co-teaching of research methods and academic writing for postgraduate students. The use of ICT technologies by students is a critical skills set that is essential in the 21st Century.
The College recognises the importance of building strong partnerships to support our teaching and research through community engagement. Our dedicated staff and students go above and beyond to uplift communities and to make a difference in the lives of others. Through their research and various activities, they are our agents of change.
UKZN Sociologist Dr Mariam Seedat-Khan was part of a programme on Critical Thinking and Reading Skills at the Bayview Library in Chatsworth.
She facilitated a session with 80 Grade 7 learners from schools across the Bayview area that aimed to develop such skills. Learners were taught to manage their time and tasks by applying 60-minute reinforcing SMART (Simply Managing Academic Related Tasks) techniques.
The School of Education held a Children and Youth Festival on the Edgewood campus aimed at primary and high school learners from quintile 1, 2 and 3 schools under the theme: Reading Comes Alive.
The festival offered a range of fun-filled learning activities in which participants were able to explore and engage in spelling bees, reading, robotics, planting, board games and interact with an insect display for their development.
It is important to work with local schools on a programme where learners can learn and grow in a different and fun way.