Education and Professional Development

Cohort Supervision (Supervising Cohort Postgraduate Groups)

Due to resource and quality pressures, combined with trends that have emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic, new models of supervision have been prompted. Cohort supervision is one such option.Senior degree students who enroll within a discipline in a particular year may compose a collaborative learning cohort. A faculty member(s) serves as cohort coordinator and mentor…

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Postgraduate supervision

To equip postgraduate supervisors with knowledge and skills to supervise in terms of:Possible frameworks and models for research education.Selection of candidates.The roles and responsibilities of doctoral candidates and supervisors.The question of an increasingly diverse doctoral population.The roles that research integrity play in conducting and supervising doctoral studies.How a doctoral research proposal is approached, written and…

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Psychology CPD Well Option B plus C

Option B: Online Programme:12 CEUs including 3 ethics units,Study PowerPoint presentations and videos from 13th March to 24 November PowerPoint slides of lectures including additional material will be available on the website as an alternative for those participants who are unable to attend a workshop. After studying the material on the web, practitioners must complete…

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Education and Professional Development

Psychology CPD Well: Option C General – Psychometry

Option C General Psychometry30 CEUs including 6 ethic unitsArticles and questionnaires will be available from 13th March to 24 November. Ten topical journal articles (including two ethic articles) on a variety of topics (such as career counselling and development, psychotherapy, psychopathology, ethics, learning disorders and disabilities) will be placed on the website along with questionnaires…

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Supervising the literature review chapter of a thesis

The short course aims to equip higher degree supervisors, mainly those in economic sciences, social sciences and humanities, with knowledge and skills to guide higher degree students through the literature review sections of their studies. The main issues addressed are: (a) The role of sound argumentation and logic in a study; (b) Guiding a preliminary…

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The “Climate, Migration and Health Nexus: Mechanisms of Mitigation, Adaptation, and Loss and Damage”

The main goal is to jointly organize a summer school on the climate-migration-health nexus with our partners from the CliMigHealth network at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. This initiative will convert our collaborative research into educational content for master¿s and PhD students across the Western Cape and broader African region. Unlike the previous seasonal school…

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The evaluation and examination of postgraduate work

The workshop aims to equip postgraduate supervisors and examiners with knowledge and skills to evaluate and examine master¿s and doctoral study research in terms of: How to self-assess for synergy and coherence in a study; How to assess the structural elements of a thesis; How to select examiners and submitting work for examination; How to…

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Writing for publication (advanced)

¿ Fifteen completed articles ready for submission to an accredited journal;¿ All fifteen (100 %) articles accepted within six months after completing the workshop;

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Writing for publication (introduction)

¿ To complete one article per participant for submission to an accredited journal based on the guidelines for authors of that particular journal;¿ To have at least 33% of the articles accepted for publication during a first round of submission; and¿ To eventually have all articles accepted for publication.

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