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#WomenofSU: Enhancing access to justice for women, LGBTQ and gender-diverse people

​Women, LGBTQ and gender-diverse people face many obstacles when they seek justice for crimes such as rape, assault or police brutality. They need all the...

Beating the heat: opening the climate change forecasting toolbox

It is not easy to predict how animals – from insects to fish – are going to respond to climate change and especially extremes of temperature. This lack of...

Challenges and victories at the SEM unit during lockdown

​Since the national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020 rapid changes and challenges to the status quo in the work environment became a...

Top performers in chemistry and polymer science

​The top performers in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science were rewarded for their hard work during 2019 and 2020 during an online awards ceremony...

COVID Diaries is 'an archive of women's voices' amid the pandemic

​​​Two Stellenbosch University (SU) academics are the driving forces behind a new book containing a collection of 35 creative essays through which various South...

#WomenofSU: Balancing the scale on unequal gender norms

With a research background in child and adolescent mental health and development, Prof Sarah Skeen, associate professor and co-director of the Institute for...

Prof Hassan Mahomed provides leadership in Province’s COVID-19 battle

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed major challenges to public health medicine specialists. For Extraordinary Professor Hassan Mahomed, who has been at the...

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...
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