Faculty of Humanities
Prof S Klopper, Dean
E-mail address: sandra.klopper@up.ac.za
Message by the Dean
Despite this diversity, unintended synergies sometimes emerge in the research focuses of different departments, in some cases leading to richly imaginative collaborative projects that not only challenge disciplinary boundaries, but also encourage engagement with the public sphere.
The most obvious beneficiaries of this engagement are marginalised communities that, for a variety of reasons, are willing to form strategic alliances with university-based researchers to achieve social and other goals that play a crucial role in sustaining their wellbeing.
The Humanities also engage the public sphere in other, equally important ways through research aimed at improving performance, both physical and psychological.
In addition to these socially connected, interactive research projects, researchers in the Faculty of Humanities excel in thinking and rethinking questions and issues that are central to our understanding of what it means to be human. As such, they make an important contribution to upholding values and practices without which our society would not be able to function.
Prof S Klopper
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