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The CST, in partnership with the USAID Resilient Waters program in Southern Africa, has developed and launched a free online short course titled “Anticipatory Governance: New ways of sense-making and navigating for uncertainty”. The self-paced online course, offered for free on the UNESCO Open Learning platform, is available from 1 November 2021 until 31 March 2022.

In an interview with Newzroom Afrika, CST researcher Dzvinka Kachur CST researcher unpacks what could happen next in the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.

Stories of collective learning and care during a pandemic gives insight into the collective learning under way in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores and demonstrates what kinds of collective learning support, skills ecosystems and capacity mobilisation are needed for a ‘just recovery’ from COVID-19 that can inform basic livelihoods, new forms of work, climate action and long-term transformations for sustainable futures.

A special report, authored by CST Researcher Dzvinka Kachur, explores Russia’s political, military and economic cooperation with Zambia and Tanzania. It also analyses the Soviet Union’s legacy, from which the Russian government and businesses can benefit in current relationships with African countries.

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.

How much biodiversity can we lose before it starts impacting our quality of life? We all depend on well-functioning ecosystems, whether we are aware of this or not. Yet measuring how much biodiversity we are losing across the African continent, and what that means for our well-being, is a difficult task.

SARA invites proposals for collaborative working groups to pursue inter- or transdisciplinary research that synthesizes understanding under the guiding theme of “Building equitable resilience in southern Africa”.

Congratulations to Prof Oonsie Biggs who has again been listed on the annual Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list. The list has recognised true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™.

As compounding impacts from our worsening climate crisis become more visible around the globe, leading scientists, including the CST's Tanya Brodie Rudolph, have released a compilation of the 10 most important new insights on the climate.