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Digital Wellbeing: Raising Awareness

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitalisation of our work, social and learning environments at an unexpected rate. All over the world people’s...

Poverty continues to undermine women’s dignity

THE Women's March of 1956 was a watershed event as women of all races united to challenge an oppressive system that saw women exploited and deprived of economic...

DRD Research for Impact Focus: Meet our Distinguished Professors

In 2014 Stellenbosch University started a programme where our top researchers are honoured with Distinguished Professorships. The title was created to recognise...

I am here, let me speak!

Remarkable women. They have marched hand-in-hand through the ages. They walked with hope and knew that what they were about to do could change their current...

#WomenofSU: Promoting women's health

Women's health as well as reproductive health tends to be neglected in the public domain. However, Dr Rizwana Roomaney, a lecturer in the Department of...

#WomenofSU: COVID-19 and its impact on women

​For Hannah Simba, a PhD candidate in Public Health at Stellenbosch University (SU), the promotion and inclusion of women scientists is critical in cultivating...

SU researchers help with genetic study about bipolar disorder

SU researchers help with genetic study about bipolar disorder Stellenbosch University researchers have played their part in what is said to be the largest...

Gender equity benefits entire communities

There is a clear link between gender diversity and good business performance, and the promotion of more women into leadership positions boosts the entire...

#WomenofSU: Negotiating intimacy in a changing HIV landscape

​For her doctorate, sociobehavioural researcher Dr Lario Viljoen, associated with the Desmond Tutu TB Centre in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health...

Women’s Day: How to level the playing field for SA’s women

​Monday (9 August) was Women's Day. In opinion pieces* for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University highlight some of the issues that must still be...
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