Symposium
Wits Interfaculty Symposium on Climate, Sustainability, and Inequality
The symposium will take place on Wednesday, 31 July and, 1 August 2024
The Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor is hosting its third annual inter-faculty research symposium to continue the momentum from 2023, to encourage and probe new areas of research, and for the first time is 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 that they wish to share. 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 during the symposium. Should your abstract be accepted, finalised posters will need to be submitted by 5 July 2024. Please diarise the dates if you make a submission. |
Wits staff, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students working on issues of climate, sustainability and inequality are invited to submit short abstracts (not more than 400 words) of the research that they wish to share. Please note, that we are not expecting formal papers for the symposium – presentations are sufficient. We are, however, happy to share papers which colleagues may wish to distribute for this process. In addition to abstracts for presentations, proposals for contributions in alternative formats are also welcome and encouraged. These could take the form of photo-essays, art, poetry, or videos. Where an abstract is not appropriate, for example for a visual or creative submission, a short portfolio or sample of the work(s) to be shared is welcome. |
We would like to encourage specifically abstracts around the below themes, but if your paper is outside of the themes please do submit. If you do not yet have research to present, we will also accept submissions for panel discussions on new topics.
