UCT Open Day 2024
The annual event is for learners in Grades 10 to 12, their families and teachers. This year, it took place on campus from 10:00 to 15:00 on Saturday, 4 May 2024.
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Amanda Weltman
Professor Amanda Weltman from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics will present her inaugural lecture titled “From the Laboratory to the Sky: New Windows on the Universe” at 17:00 SAST on Tuesday, 8 October 2024.
UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Eftychia Nikolaidou
Professor Eftychia Nikolaidou from the School of Economics will present her inaugural lecture titled “Defence spending: Drivers and Economic Effects” at 17:00 SAST on Thursday, 10 October 2024.
A conversation on executive leadership hosted by four UCT women executives
We have pleasure in inviting you to our third instalment of a conversation on the importance of impactful, inclusive leadership in the workplace.
Mr Jacques Rousseau
Jacques Rousseau teaches critical thinking and ethics in UCT’s School of Management Studies, and is the chairperson of the Free Society Institute, a secular humanist non-profit organisation. He has been on the academic staff since 2001, during which time he has chaired the Academic Freedom Committee, and has also served, or is serving, on various committees including Senate and the Senate Executive Committee.
Professor Waheeda Amien
Waheeda Amien is a Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), an admitted Attorney of the High Court, with right of appearance in the High Court, and a Family Law Mediator.
Professor Amien holds a BA LLB (Cape Town), LLM in Constitutional Litigation (Western Cape), PhD (Ghent). She is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C2 Rated Researcher (2019 -2024).
Professor Tom Moultrie
Tom Moultrie is Professor of Demography in the Faculty of Commerce.
He holds a BBusSc (Actuarial Science, UCT 1992), an MSc in Economics (Development Studies, with distinction, LSE 1998) and a PhD in demography (LSHTM 2002). After returning to UCT as a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 2005, and promoted ad-hominem to Associate Professor (2009) and Professor (2015). In 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the University of Cape Town.
Associate Professor Tracey Naledi
Tracey Naledi is an Associate Professor of Public Health Medicine and the Deputy Dean: Social Accountability and Health Systems in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Tracey has held technical and management roles in the government and NGO sectors in South Africa and Botswana.