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EGS welcomes its new incoming postgraduate students

We ran our orientation programme via our UCT’s VULA platform and with a number of Zoom meet ups. Dr Jore von Holdt, who convenes our Honours programme, sent us all on a Zoom speed-dating exercise

EGS welcomes renowned scholar, Dr Jane Battersby

Welcome to Dr Jane Battersby, who joins the department from UCT’s African Centre for Cities where she has been leading the urban food cluster. Jane’s work over the last 13 years has used food as a lens

Emeritus Professor Michael Meadows Elected President of International Geographical Union

Emeritus Professor Meadows is proud to be only the second person from an African country to be elected as IGU President in almost 100 years.

The Water Hub: From polluted water to safe reuse for growing food

The Water Hub in Franschhoek is an urban living lab where research is being undertaken by members of the EGS Department and Future Water Institute at UCT. The researchers are learning how to work with nature rather than against it.

Peninsula Paddle 2020: Journey of hope

Each year the paddle is a reminder about this message and each year the paddle encourages action to be taken to address the problem by civic organisations and the City of Cape Town

For information on South Africa's response to COVID-19 please visit the COVID-19 Corona Virus South African Resource Portal.

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Thursday, 22 April 2021

Celebrating 30 years work anniversary

In August 2020 I celebrated 3 decades “love affair” with EGS-UCT

Publication Date:

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 - 13:00

TLC 2020: Teaching as a form of social responsiveness

Zarina Patel was awarded a social responsiveness course development grant in 2019, which she used to reconfigure her postgraduate course: Environmental Policy and Practice

Publication Date:

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 - 14:45