| Kefas | Nangula | Namibia | Sociology and Social Anthropology | An investigation into the gender mainstreaming processes of the Namibian Correctional Service and its social construction. | Prof Lindy Heinecken | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist studies |
| Madi | Tuduetso | Botswana | Sociology and Social Anthropology | A critical assessment of gender integration with the Botswana Defence Force | Prof Lindy Heinecken | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist studies |
| Mashazi | Sima | South Africa | General linguistics | What’s so funny: Humour, multilingualism and identity on South African social media | Dr Marcelyn Oostendorp | Language and Society |
| Mulonda | Munalula | Zambia | Sociology and Social Anthropology | The Social and Cultural Lives of small-scale artisanal miners on Zambia’s copper dumpsites. The case of Jerabos on the Copperbelt | Dr Ilana van Wyk | Poverty, Inequality and Development |
| Connoway | Karien | South Africa | History | "An intellectual life that demands a voice for itself:" scientific and technological developments in Cape Colony periodicals 1830-1885 | Dr Justin Pearce | Science, Technology and Communication |
| Baard | Helena | South Africa | Drama | Afrikaans Film in Flux: Investigating the Deconstruction of Apartheid Ideology in Contemporary Afrikaans Films | Dr Annel Pieterse | Race, Culture and Identity |
| Khweis | Janna Michele Karim | USA | Music | Church Music as a Catalyst for Social Justice and Inclusion of Marginalized Communities: A perspective of Community Music | Prof Mario Nell | Ethics, Social Justice and Human Rights |
| Plato | Tasneem | South Africa | General Linguistics | Constructing identity across the lifespan: The lived language experiences of coloured people on the Cape Flats | Dr Marcelyn Oostendorp | Language and Society |
| May | John Bernard | South Africa | Philosophy | ‘On the Role of Philosophy of Technology in the Anthropocene era: A Stieglerian Perspective’ | Dr Tanya de Villiers-Botha | Science, Technology and Communication |
| Mackay | Taryn Jeanie | South Africa | Journalism | The long walk home remembering southern African matresence practices An Auto-ethnographic Indigenous Project | Prof Mehita Iqani | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies |
| Khalema | Hlolohelo | South Africa | Sociology and Social Anthropology | Chinese bosses, labour and government in Lesotho’s retail (supermarket) sector from 2000: The case of Maseru district | Dr Jantjie Xaba | Poverty, Inequality and Development |
| Biscombe | Cleo Sabrina | South Africa | English | Un/shamed: Rethinking shaming discourses in contemporary representations of South African Coloured women | Prof Sally-Ann Murray & Dr Nadia Sanger | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies |
| Butler | Sune | South Africa | Sociology and Social Anthropology | World-making in theory and in practice: Exploring the interdisciplinary nexus between the social sciences, humanities and neuroscience | Dr Lloyd Hill | Science, Technology and Communication |
| Weys | Daniel Jan | South Africa | Drama | From Spectator to Witness: The Film Audience’s Response-ability as the Filmmaker’s Responsibility | Prof Petrus du Preez | Performance and Visual Arts |
| Lusala | Bramwell | Kenya | English | The Paradox in East Africa’s Diaspora Imaginary: A Comparative Study Of Somali and East African Asian’s Narratives of Return | Dr Uhuru Phalafala & Dr Nwabisa Bangeni | Conflict, violence and reconciliation |
| Chanda | Osward | Zambia | History | Identity and Social Change in Zambia: Names and Naming Practices amongst the Bemba-speaking People, 1895-1974 | Dr Thembani Dube & Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa | Race, culture and identity |
| Moyo | Melody | Zimbabwe | History | A History of (Homo)Sexualities in Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), c. 1950-2024 | Dr Chet Fransch | Race, culture and identity |
| Muhammedy | Zahra Ally | Tanzania | English | Marital Trauma in Selected 21st Century East and West African Women’s Writing | Dr Lauren van der Rede | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist studies |
| Nganje | Kgalalelo Tiffany | Botswana | Political Science | Localising Electoral Democracy: An Analysis of Domestic Election Observation in three SADC Countries | Prof Collette Schulz-Herzenberg | Politics, governance and citizenship |
| Phiri | Emmanuel | Zambia | History | Brewing Change: Women and beer-brewing on the urban Copperbelt of Zambia, 1927-2023 | Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa | Poverty, Inequality and Development |
| Okul | John Otieno | Kenya | Political Science | An Assessment of the Quality of Elections in Kenya, 1992 - 2022 | Dr Cindy-Lee Steenekamp | Politics, Governance and citizenship |
| Qhubu | Mothobi Pascalis Kevin | Lesotho | History | “White Gold”: Water and Lesotho-South Africa Relations since 1986. | Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa | Politics, governance and citizenship |
| Semba | Victory Kudzai | Zimbabwe | Political Science | A historical overview of shifting police military relations and its consequences for national security in Zimbabwe, 1980-2024 | Dr Justin Pearce & Prof Lindy Heinecken | Health, welfare and human security |
| Gajjar | Neerali | South Africa | Sociology and Social Anthropology | Whose History? A Sociological Analysis of Teaching Apartheid History in South Africa. | Prof Bernard Dubbeld & Dr Handri Walters | Ethics, Social Justice and Human Rights |
| Coetzee | Aikra | South Africa | Ancient Studies | The Mesopotamian Goddess Nisaba: Her Significance, Development and Relationship with Women’s Writing | Dr Renate M Van Dijk-Coombes | Gender, Sexuality and feminist studies |
| Gouws | Moniq Esti | South Africa | Drama | The Collaborative Potential Between Artificial Intelligence and Humans when writing for the Stage | Dr Schalk Van der Merwe | Performance and Visual Arts |
| Louw | Charisse | South Africa | Visual Arts | A reparative enquiry into African Moving Pictures | Prof Lize Van Robbroeck | Performance and Visual Arts |
| Maregedze | Brian | Zimbabwe | History | A Social History of Rwandese refugees in Zimbabwe 1981 to present | Dr Thembani Dube | Ethics, Social Justice and Human Rights |
| Matovu | Julius | Uganda | African Languages | Interconnecting the Task-based language teaching approach with the competence-based curriculum for Kiswahili | Prof Marianna Visser & Prof Mawande Dlali | Language and Society |
| Raal | Ludwig | South Africa | Philosophy | Slaying the Dragon: Exploring the Moral Imperative for Radical Life Extension Research | Dr Susan Hall | Ethics, Social Justice and Human Rights |
| Makokha | Racheal Omukhulu | Kenya | Political Science | The Holy Strategy: The use of Religion in Accessing Power by Political Elites in Ghana, Kenya and Zambia | Prof Nicola de Jager | Politics, governance and citizenship |
| Knoetze | Frederick Wilhelm | South Africa | Philosophy | Skeptism, fallibilism and the pretextual account of concessive knowledge attributions | Dr Tanya De Villiers-Botha | Ethics, social justice and Human rights |
| Hadebo | Frezer Abera | Ethiopia | Political Science | Gendered Migration: An Intersectional Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Ethiopian Women Refugee living in South Africa | Prof Amanda Gouws | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies |
| Moyo | Oswald | Zimbabwe | History | A history of Umlaga/Lagisa system in Shashe-Thuli plateau (Matabeleland South), Zimbabwe, c.1930 to present. | Prof Sandra Swart | Politics, Governance and citizenship |
| Munala | Beatrice Grace | Kenya | Ancient Studies | Narrating Identities through Historical Stones: A Comparative Study of Narratives of The Crying Stone of Ilesi and Kit Mikayi | Dr Samantha Masters | Race, Culture and Identity |
| Mujulizi | Joseph Mukisa | Tanzania | Sociology and Social Anthropology | The Act of Blackness: Black Education in Time: Exploring the Entanglements of Institution and Individual in Tanzanian International Schools | Dr Handri Walters | Politics, governance and citizenship |
| Ndyanabo | Adson | Tanzania | History | The Provenance and Future of Makonde Ethnographic Objects in Linden-Museum, Stuttgart: Toward a plan, c.1890s to the present | Prof Sandra Swart & Dr Samantha Masters | Race, Culture and Identity |
| Sombe | Seleman Yahaya | Tanzania | History | A History of the State’s and Civil Society's Responses to Transnational Irregular Migrations from the Horn of Africa in Tanzania | Prof Sandra Swart | Health, Welfare and Human Security |
| Tomas | Lahja Namutenya | Namibia | English | Language, Power and Secession: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Caprivi conflict in selected Namibian newspapers (1999 – 2009) | Dr Lauren van der Rede & Dr Nwabisa Bangeni | Conflict, violence and reconciliation |
| Kansiime | Fortunate | Uganda | English | Poverty, Education and Female embodiment in Ugandan Women’s Life writing and Fiction | Dr Jeanne Ellis | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist studies |
| Musunda | Tinashe | Zimbabwe | Social Anthropology | Silent Voices: Perceptions And Narratives of Integrated Azania People’s Liberation Army (APLA) Into SANDF | Prof Lindy Heinecken | Conflict, violence and reconciliation |
| Oboh | Emmanuel Anoghena | Nigeria | Philosophy | Decolonising Environmental Ethics through an Ecowomanist Lens: Yoruba Women Spiritualties and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. | Prof Louise Du Toit | Ethics, Social Justice and Human Rights |
| Saidi | Ezekiel Emanuel | Tanzania | African Languages | Argumentation and Language Perception in Tanzanian Primary Courts: A Study on Kiswahili Use in Legal Reasoning | Dr Zameka Sijadu | Language and Society |
| Babl | Bastiénne S. M. | South Africa | Ancient Studies | Shiv'at HaMinim: The Seven Species as Cultural Keystone Species of the Ancient Judaea between 100 BCE and 200 CE. | Dr Renate van Dijk-Coombes | Race, Culture and Identity |
| Kambourakis | Stephanie | South Africa | English | “Canines, Courtship, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel” | Dr Jeanne Ellis | Language and Society |
| Luden | Michael Kyle | South Africa | Psychology | Intergroup Contact and Perceived Social Contract as Potential Pathways Towards Attitude De-moralisation. | Prof Hermann Swart & Prof Martijn van Zomeren | Race, culture and identity |
| Mapokgole | R. Blantinah | South Africa | Social Anthropology | Mothering Across Time: An Intergenerational Feminist Ethnography of Batlokwa Women's Mothering in Limpopo, South Africa. | Dr Ziyanda Majombozi | Gender, Sexuality and Feminist studies |
| Marere | Nozipho Pauline | Zimbabwe | GES | The paradox of urban green infrastructure: Liminality and the production of socio-environmental vulnerability in Caledonia, Zimbabwe | Dr Sam Ngema | Land, environment and sustainable development |
| Mutasa | Tapiwa Vincent | Zimbabwe | History | “Chipfambi/Ukufeba”: A history of efforts to regulate urban prostitution in Zimbabwe, 1923 to the Present | Dr Chet Fransch | Ethics, Social justice and Human rights |
| Thomas | Noah | South Africa | English | Queering the home and relationalities in 21st Century South African literature | Dr Megan Jones & Dr Uhuru Phalafala | Race, culture and Identity |
| Van der Merwe | Petronella H. | South Africa | Drama | Die laaste hiëna van Germania (The last hyena of Germania): An autoethnographic folk horror study | Prof Petrus Du Preez | Performance and Visual Arts |
| Wootton | Juliet Grace | South Africa | Music | Modernisms in the Symphonic Works of three 20th-Century South African Composers | Prof Stephanus Muller | Performance and Visual Arts |
