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.
Twin Peaks regulation and the Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill
This ten-hour remote short course aims to demystify the relevant legislation that governs the twin peaks regulatory environment and aid participants in understanding the fundamentals.
Business and human rights
This twelve-hour remote short course provides professionals with a clear understanding of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, human rights due diligence, and emerging legal and ESG requirements.
Basic Counselling Skills
Basic counselling skills are crucial to foster healthy relationships when working with people, albeit patients in a clinic or hospital setting.
Trusts: An introduction to the legal and practical aspects
This six-hour course will introduce you to the basic legal and practical aspects of trusts and how they can be used effectively and efficiently, for example as part of a holistic financial plan.
Document formatting for lawyers
This ten-hour remote short course, held over five days, covers the essential MS Word skills that legal professionals are expected to have.
Legal practice management
Practicing law is a business. Join us for a remote four-hour short course in which we will explore the skills needed to run a sound legal practice.
Whose Data, Whose Story? Reclaiming Nuance in Personalised Medicine Beyond AI Models
Erin Kinghorn explores science communication as a site of ethical responsibility, asking how we can speak about AI in ways that are honest about limits, attentive to context, and accountable to the communities involved.
Psychological First Aid
Psychological first aid is a simple, yet powerful way of helping someone in distress.