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2020-04-30 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Manage your mental wellbeing during lockdown
April is Stress Awareness Month and Unisa's Dr Nikki Themistocleous from the College of Human Sciences talks about this in the context of COVID-19.
2020-04-28 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Getting your research message across
The COVID-19 national lockdown has demonstrated the tremendous need of citizens for reliable, credible information. Platforms such as The Conversation are crucial in translating the results of research into something that is understandable and accessible.
2020-04-16 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Lockdown blues: The end of ritual as we know it, again
Like a thief in the night, the COVID-19 pandemic entered our lives.
So write Unisa's Puleng Segalo and Natalia Molebatsi, together with Thembela Vokwana of the University of Fort Hare, concluding that there are signs of an altered future (socially, culturally and technologically).
2020-04-15 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Unisa Political Sciences alumnus to head IAPSS research committee
Ian Fleming-Zhou is thrilled to apply the knowledge and skills gained through his studies with the university to thrive in his new international position.
2020-04-15 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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High COVID-19 GBV statistics are no surprise
According to Prof Nokuthula Mazibuko, Head of the Unisa Institute for Gender Studies, such numbers were expected once the lockdown was imposed as these were already alarmingly high in South Africa.
2020-04-15 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Focus on kindness towards yourself and others
Dr Nikki Themistocleous from Unisa's Department of Psychology says while we are all experiencing extraordinary circumstances, it is important to understand that we are all experiencing these in different ways.
2020-04-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Women more vulnerable than ever
"We must be careful how we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and not forget the increasing numbers of homes facing gender-based violence and femicide," Unisa lecturer Lefatshe Moagi-Venter writes in the Pretoria News.
2020-04-09 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Getting to grips with lockdown
Puleng Segalo, psychology professor from the College of Human Sciences at Unisa, says it's important to look at it from a multidimensional perspective, and reflect on how possible solutions could filter into different experiences that people are having.
