Lecture title: "Why can’t we get the right skills?"
Date: 9 November 2022
I explored how the ‘skills problem’ is positioned as an educational problem, with the idea that there is a need for an efficient flow of information from labour market actors to education actors and vice versa.
School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
Lecture title: "Waste: A problem or a resource?"
Date: 02 November 2022
This lecture sought to illustrate that waste does not necessarily represent worthless, harmful, and disposable material, but can alternatively be considered as a useful resource that can be reused, recycled, and recovered in multiple beneficial ways.
School of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science
Lecture title: "Curbing Cancer's Craving for Cholesterol: Opportunities and Challenges"
Date: 27 October 2022
This lecture will discussed the role of cholesterol in cancer while addressing the potential therapeutic approaches, opportunities, and associated challenges.
School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Lecture title: "Bowling, babies and balancing it all: Changing the world one impact initiative at a time"
Date: 26 October 2022
This presentation elaborated on some principles to consider while navigating the academic journey, specifically in our quest to move beyond the notion of “Publish or Perish” to “Impact to Cherish”.
School of Law, Faculty of Commerce, Law & Management
Lecture title: "Transforming water resource governance framework in South Africa using an ‘untransformed’ law: The courts and the National Water Act of 1998."
Date: 19 October 2022
By analysing recent South African jurisprudence, this lecture broadly demonstrated the need for overdue reforms to environmental and resource governance laws to enable true transformation.
School of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Lecture title: "Generating New Neurons in the Adult Brain: Where do we stand?"
Date: 7 September 2022
Cell proliferation in the adult brain was an unacceptable concept over half a decade ago. Once this dogma was revoked, it became necessary to establish the phenomenon of adult neurogenesis in the adult brain which declines with age.
Lecture title: "Climate change and maternal health in Africa: From Thermal physiology to public health and advocacy"
Date: 24 August 2022
The lecture presented a body of transdisciplinary work, ranging from the physiological pathways underpinning vulnerability to heat during pregnancy, to data science applications, public health approaches, and advocacy around reducing carbon emissions.
Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences.
Lecture title: "From graph theory to drug design: predictive models for target identification and selection"
Date: 17 August 2022
In this lecture, I gave an overview of how graph theory, a fast-growing branch of pure mathematics, and mathematical modelling can be used to develop prototype activity predicting models in drug design.
School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
Lecture title: "Modern Era Imaging with PET/CT - A Gift from the Gods"
Date: 20 July 2022
The rapid advances in instrumentation and novel imaging tracers are continuously changing the face of both research and clinical practice. I cannot resist to ponder whether this combination of two in one system was not conceived in 'Heaven', and surely by the Gods...
Lecture title: "No need to wait! Strategic nutraceutical use in early life for good metabolic health"
Date: 13 July 2022
This lecture explored the potential of strategic interventions in early life stages using plant derived chemicals to provide long term protection against malnutrition-induced poor health outcomes.
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
Lecture title: "Technologies of Consciousness for Human-centred Water Resources Management"
Date: 14 June 2022
Achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of UN Agenda 2030 relating to water calls for more human-centred water resources management that involves all stakeholders.
Lecture title: "The Path Trodden by Science Teacher Professional Knowledge Towards Digitalization"
Date: 01 June 2022
In her talk, she elucidated the implications of the migration of teaching to digital platforms and provide possible solutions for a refined version of TSPCK which is responsive to the teaching of Science concepts in the digital realm.
Society, Work and Politics Institute, Faculty of Humanities
Lecture title: "The making and unmaking of social order: disorder, violence, trajectories"
Date: 26 May 2022
In this lecture I reflected on the development of my thinking through 30 years of research on trade unions, communities, violence, corruption and the state, which has also been 30 years of activism to remake the world.
School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
Lecture title: "Advocating for nursing education scholarship: From Promise to Praxis"
Date: 11 May 2022
Advocating for nursing education and sharing ones scholarship, brings about new ideas or models that can be tested, refined or replicated; ultimately, building evidence for the advancement of nursing education.
Lecture title: "Entangled Life and Death – Global Fungal Epidemics"
Date: 14 April 2022
Fungi are an astonishingly diverse form of life, underpinning entire ecosystems. Some fungi are harnessed for human use. Our bodies are colonised inside and out with beneficial fungi. Yet, a few fungal pathogens cause silent epidemics of deadly infections, particularly among people with weakened immunity.