Symposium
Wits Interfaculty Symposium on Climate, Sustainability, and Inequality
The symposium will take place from 13 to 14 August, 2025.
The Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor is hosting its fourth annual inter-faculty research symposium and will be selecting 10 postgraduate students to share their research in a poster session competition to take place during the symposium. The three best posters stand a chance to win a cash prize. Selected students will also be given the opportunity to attend the two-day seminar, allowing them to engage with research done across the University.
The objective of the inter-faculty symposium is to:
- Share research and innovation on climate, sustainability and inequality across the university.
- Identify new research areas, particularly cross-disciplinary approaches.
- Identify opportunities for partnerships across faculties, with other universities and other relevant institutions more broadly.
- Promote interdisciplinary collaboration across the University.
- Develop an agenda for advocacy on both national and international issues related to climate, sustainability and inequality.
| Call for Posters (post-graduate research) | Call for Abstracts |
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Wits Master’s or PhD students researching issues related to climate, sustainability and inequality are invited to submit short abstracts (not more than 400 words) of the research they wish to share by Monday, 30 June 2025 using this form. Please note that we are not expecting formal papers for the symposium. However, students are expected to present their research in the form of a poster. Should your abstract be accepted, finalised posters will need to be submitted by Friday, 1 August 2025. |
Wits staff, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students working on issues of climate, sustainability and inequality are invited to submit short abstracts or creative proposal (not more than 400 words) Monday, 30 June 2025. Click here for more information and to submit your abstracts. Please note that we will not be accepting papers or presentations that have been submitted at previous Wits inter-faculty symposia. |
For enquires, contact Tashveer Bodhi, at tashveer.bodhi@wits.ac.za. We look forward to a rich and rigorous exchange of ideas, and to continuing to build a vibrant, interdisciplinary research community committed to addressing the urgent challenges of our time.