Social Responsiveness Award
The Social Responsiveness Award was established in 2009. It recognises UCT academics who demonstrate that social engagement has enhanced the teaching and learning process - one of the university's priorities.
2011
- Assoc Prof Ralph Hamann, (research director at the Graduate School of Business) for his work on the Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL), which brings together different role players in the regional food system to find innovative solutions to food security problems.
- Dr Sindiso Mnisi Weeks; Assoc Prof Dee Smythe, and Aninka Claassens of the Rural Women's Action Research Project, run by the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit (LRG) in the law faculty and provides support to rural people (especially women) who live under systems of customary law and traditional governance
2010
- Dr Hanna Andrea Röther - Principal Research Officer in the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research
2009
- Dr Lillian Artz - founder and director of the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit
- Dr Ailsa Holloway - director of the Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihood Programme, which generates new knowledge in the emerging field of disaster management science;
- Professor Diane McIntyre, of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, for her decades of contributions to national policy on health finance.
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