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Inaugural Southern African Postgraduate 足球竞彩app排名 Conference 2025

Theme: “Regional Collaboration for Academic Excellence” 

Purpose & objectives

The Inaugural Postgraduate 足球竞彩app排名 Conference represents a pioneering initiative in the region, distinguishing itself from other conferences through its explicit focus on postgraduate student development, academic research, and skills enhancement. This first-of-its-kind event emphasises student experience, partnerships, and maintaining leadership as a knowledge hub in the Global South.

Unlike previous conferences, this conference aims to:

  1. Create spaces for critical thinking and engagement through inclusive dialogues with participating universities across the southern African region,
  2. Provide a platform for postgraduate students to network and share best practices,
  3. Identify and address common challenges faced by postgraduate researchers in the region and
  4. Facilitate the internationalisation of research conducted by postgraduate students in the southern African region.
Importance of regional postgraduate collaboration regionally

Regional collaboration among postgraduate students and scholars is critical to advancing sustainable, equitable development across Southern Africa. Climate resilience, public health, energy transitions, and green economies are all inherently cross-border challenges that demand shared knowledge, resources, and strategies. By fostering connections between institutions and researchers across the region, we can:

  1. Strengthen research capacity and innovation by pooling diverse expertise and interdisciplinary approaches to tackle complex environmental and social challenges.
  2. Ensure context-relevant solutions through comparative studies and joint research projects that reflect the unique socio-political and ecological dynamics of Southern Africa.
  3. Promote inclusive climate policy development by amplifying the voices of young scholars from different backgrounds and ensuring that policies reflect the needs of all communities across the region.
  4. Create a networked generation of scholar-leaders who are equipped to engage in regional and global discourse, influence decision-making, and implement impactful solutions on the ground.
  5. Address shared structural inequalities in higher education by exchanging strategies on decolonisation, equity, and transformation.

Through collaborative platforms like this conference, postgraduate students can forge long-lasting partnerships that transcend institutional and national boundaries, accelerating the region's progress toward a just, climate-resilient, and sustainable future.

Target audience

We welcome postgraduate students across all faculties with a leadership background, championing their research interests. This conference will bring together other industry professionals in the various thematic focuses to foster thought leadership and collaborative efforts in co-creating Southern African solutions for southern Africa. 

Contact Information

Please direct all queries to: studentconference.pga@wits.ac.za 

Organising committee

Postgraduate Association:
  • Lesego Molefe (Transformation Officer)
  • Sibusiso Ngele (Academic Officer)
  • Nino Rodda (CLM Faculty Representative)
  • Mahloromela Seabi
  • Mncedisi Mashiya
  • Elijah Mashishi
  • Mpho Mothupi
  • Kefilwe Phala
  • Kamogelo Modise
Dean of 足球竞彩app排名 Affairs:
  • Rebecca Mahaule (Projects Coordinator)
  • Kamogelo Mabe (Projects Assistant)
足球竞彩app排名 Governance Office:
  • Wiseman Khumalo (足球竞彩app排名 Development Practitioner)
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