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
UCT Career Guide 2025 Launch: Tap Into Our Digital Pulse
(Ends 31 May 2026)
More infoWelcome to the 2025 edition of our Careers Service Guide, centred around the theme of “Our Digital Pulse” in the face of advancing technology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Working better with workplace conflict
Change your attitude towards conflict and learn useful strategies for resolving conflict in this interactive twelve-hour short course.
Estate planning and wills
Join us for an eight-hour remote course, held over four days, which will provide the foundation for good estate planning and its culmination in a will that reflects the true intention of the testator or testatrix.
Fundamentals of Behaviour Change
This short course introduces professionals to the foundational principles of behaviour change and behavioural science.