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Advance Notice for Registration ADA Winter School 2015 In Research Methods and Academic Development 29 June - 10 July University of Stellenbosch  This bi-annual School is aimed at current and aspiring doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, researchers and supervisors. The courses are open to delegates across all disciplines and a focus on transdisciplinarity is encouraged. This winter sees five new workshops introduced, including the exciting new course on Becoming a Lecturer - Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and another in Transdisciplinary Research Methods presented in collaboration with the TsamaHUB at [...]

The Africa Science Leadership Program (ASLP) is a new initiative of the University of Pretoria and the Global Young Academy, with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. It aims to grow mid-career African academics in the areas of thought leadership, team management and research development, with the intention of enabling them to contribute to the development of a new paradigm for science in African, focused on its contribution to solving the complex issues facing both Africa and the global community. The leadership program aims to: Identify early- to mid-career [...]

The Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) is a worldwide network, founded in 2008, to enhance the science and practical application of ecosystem services. To facilitate the needed dialogue between scientists, policy makers and practitioners ESP organises an annual international conference in different parts of the world. The 8th World ESP conference will be held in South Africa from 9-13 November 2015. The central theme is ‘Ecosystem Services for Nature, People and Prosperity’. The conference will pay special attention to the public and private sector dialogue on how the ecosystem services concept can be used [...]

Governing the Anthropocene: the greatest challenge for systems thinking in practice? The 59th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences will be held in Berlin, Germany, August 2 - 7, 2015. Conference co-hosts, Ray Ison (ISSS President) and Louis Klein (ISSS Vice President for Conferences), extend an invitation to join us in Berlin from the 2nd-7th August 2015 for a conference that: challenges systems thinkers, researchers, practitioners , scientists to reflect upon what they do, or might do, in governing the Anthropocene; creates an opportunity for you to contribute a paper [...]

PhD Course - Systems Thinking and Practice in PhD Research: Cybersystemic Possibilities for Governing the Anthropocene 30 July – 7 August 2015, Germany   Comprising • Two days of participation in a Systemic Inquiry in Hannover (Herrenhausen) on “Governing the Anthropocene: Cybersystemic Possibilities?" • Two days of dedicated ‘workhops’ introducing different systems approaches, methods and research traditions at Humbolt University in Berlin • Five days of participation in the 2015 ISSS Conference in Berlin, including a group generated presentation on the final day • 5 ECTS - points As part [...]