UKZN’s School of Applied Human Sciences, the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) and the Education, Training and Development Practices Sector Education and Training Authority (ETDP SETA)hosted the Peace and Security-Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Conference in Durban.
Psychology Honours students undertook a fieldtrip to Umsamo Institute, the healing village in Greytown owned by renowned healer, author and poet Dr Velaphi Mkhize. They gained practical experience of the work done in caring for patients who present with different mental illnesses and disorders, including the consultation procedure as well as the different people involved.
Perceptions of corporal punishment by children – giving recognition to their voices as potential victims of such punishment despite it being banned in SA schools in 1996 – were evaluated Dr Londeka Ngubane in her thesis for a PhD in Criminology.
PhD graduates at UKZN have been fortunate to have one of their lecturers teach them from their first year at undergraduate level through to the completion of their doctorates.