contact  // 29 Apr 2024

Emeritus Professor Crain Soudien

Emeritus Professor Crain Soudien’s lifelong research has focused on the sociology of education. His work looks at social difference, with particular attention to the questions of race, class and gender. He is currently writing a history of the idea of race. This will be his fourth book. He has also co-edited more than seven books and published over 210 articles, reviews, reports and book chapters. 

contact  // 29 Apr 2024

Professor Alphose Zingoni

Professor Alphose Zingoni’s research has focused on the development of analytical methods for shell structures in engineering, the innovative use of shells in civil engineering, studies of symmetry in structural engineering, and the development of group-theoretic formulations for various problems in structural mechanics. After completing his MSc and PhD degrees at Imperial College London, he started his academic career at the University of Zimbabwe, where he became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 1997.

contact  // 29 Apr 2024

Professor Robert Wilkinson

Honorary professor in the Department of Medicine, Wilkinson (MA, PhD, DTM&H, FRCP) is director of the Clinical Infectious Disease Research Initiative (CIDRI) and a full member of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM). He has established an enviable track record in the study of infectious diseases, particularly TB (mycobacterium tuberculosis) and HIV. He has shed considerable light in areas such as TB-HIV drug interaction and early detection of treatment response.

contact  // 29 Apr 2024

Professor Heather Zar

Paediatric pulmonologist Professor Zar is head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and director of the Division of Paediatric Pulmonology at the Red Cross War Memorial Childrens' Hospital. She has a PhD from UCT on respiratory illness in HIV-infected children. Her research focuses on child lung health and uses a translational approach to apply complex technology to clinical problems using a wide range of methodologies.

page  // 07 Sep 2017

NRF A-rated

National Research Foundation (NRF) A-rated researchers are international leaders in their field. Just under a third of the country’s A-rated researchers are at UCT.
event 30 April 2024 (This event has ended)

Public Symposium on South Africa’s Foreign Policy

The Faculty of Humanities will host the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Alvin Botes, and the South African Institute for International Relations (SAIIA) for a joint public symposium.
page  // 01 Mar 2017

Alan Pifer Award

The Alan Pifer Award is the vice-chancellor's annual prize in recognition of outstanding welfare-related research.
event 4 May 2024 (This event has ended)

UCT Open Day 2024

The annual UCT Open Day is aimed at high school learners in Grades 10, 11 and 12, their families and teachers.
article  // 11 May 2022

Research and innovation: highlights 2020/21

Despite the global pandemic – and, in fact, driven by the increased urgency it created – the year of 2020/21 at UCT was marked by great research achievements and several seminal events informed by and feeding into our forward thinking.