Blogs

The team cannot wait to meet all our prospective students in February 2022, and we are ready to be engaged in teaching and learning at multiple levels, to effect meaningful change in the world. Watch the video to hear more from Programme Leader, Megan Davies, and Student Support Representative, Nina Callaghan, both on the teaching and learning team of the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Development at the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University.

Building on the reflection work supported by a GCRF Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) grant, Dr Nadia Sitas in collaboration with a range of community activists, researchers, teachers and artists have been awarded another TESF grant to embark on an ambitious year-long action-research and learning journey starting in late 2021.

To understand the impact human activity is having on biosphere integrity, scientists and decision-makers need readily available, reliable data on genetic diversity and biodiversity loss. The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) is a simple and practical tool that bridges the gap between biodiversity experts and decision makers.

CST researchers Dr Nadia Sitas and Dr Maike Hamann join a collaborative team of researchers and practitioners from WildOceans (a programme of the WildTrust), the School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to understand the root causes, and multiple impacts of plastic pollution in the Port of Durban.

CST researchers Dr Nadia Sitas and Dr Maike Hamann join a collaborative team of researchers and practitioners from WildOceans (a programme of the WildTrust), the School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to understand the root causes, and multiple impacts of plastic pollution in the Port of Durban.