​​​​The Unit for Religion and Development Research (URDR) is an interdisciplinary research unit based within the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University. It works with diverse clients and research collaborators around the world...

​​​​​The acquisition of communication skills will probably occupy an increasingly important position in the medical curriculum of Stellenbosch University (SU). Thanks to an SU teaching fellowship, Dr Elize Archer of the Centre of Health...

There are two dominant narratives in research about female principals and educational leadership. The first centres on women's struggles in accessing leadership positions – internal and external. The second relates to what women must deal...

​​​Is world democracy under threat? This is the question posed by a number of leading researchers across the world, including South Africa, focused on democracy in the book Democracy under Threat: A Crisis of Legitimacy?. The book was...

​Even though she has been involved in more than 1 000 kidney transplants, Prof Elmin Steyn is still amazed when a transplanted kidney becomes a healthy red when the blood starts flowing through the arteries and the veins. This passionate...

The following article by Dr Dirk Brand, Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, was published in The Conversation of 26 May 2019: South Africa's new national government and nine new...

The first week of July is Corporate Wellness Week - an opportunity to raise awareness of the need to create a healthy work environment. In an unhealthy work environment, there is decreased productivity, higher absenteeism and presenteeism...

Rhino poaching is a very serious problem in South Africa with more than 1 000 rhinos having been killed each year between 2013 and 2017, according to the international organisation Save the Rhino. And while anti-poaching strategies have...

​Despite an abundance of indigenous vegetables and fruits in Southern Africa, people in the region continue to suffer from food insecurity. It appears that they do not value these foods and their potential to eradicate poverty and hunger...

​Since most flowers consist of both male and female parts, they can potentially mate with themselves (self-pollination) or a different plant (outcrossing). But does this process only happen by chance? While plants are often viewed as...