The Office for Postgraduate Studies and Researcher Development (OPGS) offers an events calendar for UCT postgraduate community support through workshops, webinars, and more. For enquiries, contact pgdevelopment@uct.ac.za.
Upcoming Events
Argue Better! Ethical Reasoning for Health Professionals
(Ends 15 December 2026)
More infoThis short course aims to equip participants with the skills they need to deal with the complexities of the healthcare environment.
Argue Better! Ethical reasoning for healthcare professionals | Online
(Ends 15 December 2026)
More infoHealthcare professionals face competing obligations to their patients, employers, and themselves. Resolving these dilemmas optimally requires the skill to understand and critically engage with others' - and our own - positions.
Competition law compliance – addressing competition law regulatory compliance in a policy
(Ends 16 March 2026)
More infoThis four-hour short course aims to provide an understanding of the requirements for competition law regulatory compliance and to provide practical guidance on the essential provisions a competition law compliance policy should contain.
Data governance in Africa: Regulations, policies, institutions and technologies
This 12-hour course examines data governance as a dynamic system operating at national, regional, and continental levels. Participants will explore key policy issues including cybersecurity, privacy, economic inclusion, etc.
Application of the POPI Act in community schemes
With this two-hour remote short course, you will learn to navigate the intricacies of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act in the context of home owners associations and sectional title schemes.
Functions, powers and obligations of sectional title trustees
This four-hour course sets out what people serving bodies corporate as trustees must and may not do.
Enforcing maintenance orders against pensions and annuities
This four-hour course will explain the requirements for a maintenance order to be enforceable against a members’ retirement fund and/or annuities.
Basic HIV Counselling
This course is ideal for you if you are a social worker, psychologist, nurse, research worker, community health worker, lay counsellor, and any cadre of staff working in the HIV field.
Competition law: How to survive a dawn raid
Gain an understanding of what dawn raids are, as well as practical guidance on how to respond to and survive dawn raid in this two-hour remote short course.
Trauma Informed Practice
This program is designed to equip healthcare and social service professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address trauma effectively within the context of South African care systems