University of Cape Town

The UCT Sports Centre was abuzz with activity as students and potential employers gathered for the annual Epic Job Expo on 4 August.

Hosted by the award-winning UCT Careers Service, the event brought together representatives from local and international organisations eager to connect with top student talent. Beyond recruitment opportunities, exhibitors offered career guidance and insights into the job search process, helping students better understand employer expectations and industry trends.

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Companies engage ‘top talent’ at UCT job expo Employers from a wide range of sectors, including local and international organisations, connected with UCT’s exceptional students.

Join Professor Gina Ziervogel for her inaugural lecture, titled “Water under or over the bridge? Governing trade-offs in climate adaptation”, on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at 18:00 SAST in Lecture Theatre 1, Neville Alexander Building, lower campus.

Using water, particularly drought and flooding, as a lens, the lecture will explore how climate adaptation is shaped by governance, competing development priorities, power and capacity; and will highlight how acknowledging these trade-offs can help build more collaborative, equitable and transformative responses to climate change.



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Professor Shaun Parsons will present his lecture as part of the UCT Inaugural Lecture series on Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 18:00 SAST. Read more about this and other updates: qr.codes/q3DjN9

Inaugural lecture by Professor Parsons and other updates Professor Shaun Parsons will present his lecture as part of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Inaugural Lecture series on Thursday, 13 August 2026. Read more about this and other recent developments on campus.

The University of Cape Town will host the Times Higher Education (THE) World Academic Summit in Cape Town from 29 September to 1 October 2026 in a landmark co-hosting agreement with the University of Bristol, as part of a long-standing strategic partnership between the two universities.

This will be the first THE World Academic Summit to be hosted on African soil, a historic gathering that will showcase African universities’ rising influence in innovation and research in the global higher education landscape. The 2026 summit, themed “Knowledge, justice and futures: Universities in the age of intelligence”, will gather global leaders in higher education, research, policy, business and civil society to explore how universities can harness intelligence – human, artificial and collective – to shape fairer, more sustainable and future-ready societies.

The event is hosted in proud partnership with Standard Bank.

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University of Bristol

Students were given valuable advice on how not to fall prey to human traffickers, especially in the search for jobs, when UCT's Office for Inclusivity & Change (OIC) partnered with the Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) for an awareness initiative on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July.

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Initiative empowers students in fight against human trafficking Programme on plaza creates awareness around human trafficking, gives resources to boost safety and shows where help can be found.

By the time a child celebrates their third birthday, the foundations of emotional regulation are already being laid deep within the brain. A new UCT study published in Brain Research Bulletin suggests that those foundations may even be influenced before birth.

Researchers have found that children whose mothers experienced psychological distress during pregnancy showed measurable differences in the communication between brain regions responsible for processing and regulating emotions.

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UCT Faculty of Health Sciences

Prenatal stress may alter brain networks that regulate children’s emotions Researchers have found that children whose mothers experienced psychological distress during pregnancy showed measurable differences in the communication between brain regions responsible for processing and regulating emotions.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Mosa Moshabela invites members of the university community and the public to the next UCT Inaugural Lecture, to be presented by Professor Shaun Parsons from the Faculty of Commerce.

The lecture is titled "Technology and challenges to tax norms in the 21st Century: Crypto-assets and beyond" and will take place on Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 18:00 SAST in the Mafeje Room, Bremner Building, lower campus.

Professor Parsons is a professor of taxation, head of the tax section in the College of Accounting and coordinator of the college's scholarship portfolio. His research focuses on the interaction between emerging technologies and tax systems, including crypto-assets, decentralised finance, artificial intelligence and cross-border remote work.



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The next lecture in the UCT Inaugural Lecture series will be presented by Professor Gina Ziervogel on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at 18:00 SAST. Read more about this and other updates: qr.codes/qWUau1

Inaugural lecture by Professor Ziervogel and other updates The next lecture in the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Inaugural Lecture series will be presented by Professor Gina Ziervogel on Wednesday, 12 August 2026. Read more about this and other recent developments on campus.

Professor Djiby Thiam, the director of the Water and Production Economics Research Unit, delivered his inaugural lecture at the end of July.

Professor Thiam explored the impact of water resource management on productivity in sectors such as agriculture, as well as the challenges posed by water scarcity, environmental hazards and climate change. His lecture was titled, “The economics of water and climate resilience: Lessons learned from African experiences”.

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Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town

Economics of water and climate resilience Professor Djiby Thiam, the director of the Water and Production Economics Research Unit, delivered his inaugural lecture at the end of July.