News

  • CST publications released

    A number of publications have been released over the past few weeks providing succinct overviews of various aspects of CST-related work. These are available for download.

  • MASTERS OPPORTUNITY: Agricultural trade networks

    A Masters bursary focusing on Agricultural trade networks in the Western Cape is available for 2020. nterested individuals should have a strong academic track-record, will be expected to be based at the CST and participate in Centre seminars and activities.

  • MASTERS OPPORTUNITY: Agricultural regime shifts

    We seek a Masters student that is interested in contributing to understanding these regime shifts and collecting examples.

  • MASTERS BURSARY – Telecoupling: trade impacts in Southern Africa

    We seek motivated individuals interested to pursue a Masters, who have a keen interest in sustainability, an interest and ability to integrate across the social and natural sciences, and who enjoy collaboration and working in teams.

  • The principles which underlie quality knowledge co-production

    In a new paper in Nature Sustainability, authors including CST's Prof Oonsie Biggs and Prof Belinda Reyers propose a set of general principles that underlie high-quality knowledge co-production for sustainability research.

  • POSITION: Lecturer/researcher – African economic trends and renewable energy transitions

    CST seeks to appoint a researcher with expertise in issues pertinent to Africa, with specific emphasis on renewable energy policies and technology, economic development and governance issues.

  • Experiential Learning through a Design-Build in Morocco

    In early 2018, Sharné Bloem, with a background in architecture and currently a researcher at Centre for Complex Systems in Transition and the support of Prof Mark Swilling, entered the Solar Decathlon Africa competition with a design proposal for a net-zero-energy house for the African context.

  • CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Masters and PhD bursaries for 2020

    We seek motivated individuals interested to pursue either a Masters or a PhD linked to the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative, who have a keen interest in sustainability and sustainability transitions, an interest and ability to integrate across the social and natural sciences, and who enjoy collaboration and working in 2 teams.

  • Oonsie Biggs recognised amid world’s top researchers

    Oonsie Biggs has been listed in the 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List.