Note: Several of the photos have captions with only the names of the people in the photograph. Their organisation, role and relationship to UARM (at the time of the photo), can be viewed by clicking here.

• 2024 May 14: UARM Graduation - Class of 2023. This is the tenth year since the inception of the UARM MCom programme, and we are delivering ten graduates in the Class of 2023, five with distinction (Indicated with an * in the name list below).

• 2024 May 14: UARM Graduation - Class of 2023. Celebrating five top students who received the degree with distinction. In read order: Irvine Langton, Malesela Maupa, Msizi Gumede, Thabisile Khumalo and Vincent Kheswa..

 

 

• 2023 Oct 11-13: UARM staff and graduates partook in the annual Social Sciences International Research Conference that took place under the auspices of the NWU faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.​​​​​

The table below lists the UARM papers that were presented. Click on the titles for abstracts of the papers - the full papers can be found in the conference proceedings on the SSIRC home page https://commerce.nwu.ac.za/SSIRC.

 

 

• 2023 Apr: Prof. The Kocken, extraordinary professor at UARM, has produced a documentary on longevity risk entitled "Your Hundred Year Life: A Film about Rethinking Ageing in the 21st Century".   This film had its South African premiere on 4 April at an event hosted  by the NWU's Optentia Research Unit and Corporate & Marketing Department at the Killarney Cinema in Johannesburg. For a trailer of the movie, click here. Watch a video about the event here.

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• 2022 Nov: Marie Smit, graduate from the class of 2021, won the prestigious Research & Innovation award for the most outstanding Master's degree student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Her study supervisor was Dr. Emmanuel Mulambya.

 

• 2022 Oct 19-21: UARM staff and graduates partook in the annual Social Sciences International Research Conference that took place under the auspices of the NWU faculty of Economic and Management Sciences in conjunction with the Open University of Mauritius.​​​​​

The table below lists the UARM papers that were presented. Click on the titles for abstracts of the papers - the full papers can be found in the conference proceedings on the SSIRC home page https://commerce.nwu.ac.za/SSIRC.

 

• 2022 Jun 3: UARM Graduation - Class of 2021, comprising of six graduates.

•  2022 Jun 3: UARM Graduation - Class of 2021. Celebrating five top students who received the degree with distinction. In read order: Pat Mlanduli, Siva Chetty, Zanel Steyn, Marie Smit and Katlego Majola.

 

• ​2021 Oct 13-15: UARM staff and graduates partook in the behavioural risk management track of the annual Social Sciences International Research Conference that took place under the auspices of the NWU faculty of Economic and Management Science.

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The table below lists the UARM papers that were presented. Click on the titles for abstracts of the papers - the full papers can be found in the conference proceedings on the SSIRC home page https://commerce.nwu.ac.za/SSIRC. Prof Theo Kocken, extraordinary UARM professor, presented the keynote address for this track entitled "Complexity Economics and how to be roughly right instead of exactly wrong", the recording of which can also be found at the same link.

 

Authors	Title
Goede, J.F. (Fred) and Hofstede, GJ (Gert Jan)	Safety culture misbehaving – time for change?
Harding, A (Ane-a) and Gilliland, S (Sonja)	A risk culture comparison between risk practitioners and business managers in a telecommunications company leads to action
Keevey, M (Malora) and Goede, J.F. (Fred)	Staring down the lion: uncertainty avoidance and operational risk culture in a tourism organisation
Lamola, M.G. (George) and Gilliland, S (Sonja)	Exploring risk challenge practice in a South African life insurance organisation
Lindeque, E.G. (Eddie) and Pretorius, H (Hedre)	Measuring risk culture maturity in a South African logistics organisation
Maritz, G (Gerrit) and Mulambya, E Emmanuel)	Cyber security risk culture: a telecommunications risk reporting study
Mulambya, E (Emmanuel)	Projects and programmes: similarities and differences, and implications for risk management in southern African infrastructure development

 

• 2021 Jul 23: UARM celebrates a virtual reunion with its alumni, during which keepsake trophies were shared with the top students for who were not able to receive them in person. For a copy of the programme, click here, and for the attendance list, click here. A special event to celebrate, was the awarding of UARM's first PhD to Emmanuel Mulambya, under the supervision of Prof Hermien Zaaiman.

  

•  2021 Jun 15: UARM launches a new trophy, with all students obtaining their degree with distinction, now being recognised. Click here to read the communication, and here to view a list of the the candidates that now qualify over and above the previous individual top students per year. A special reason to celebrate was the awarding of UARM's first PhD to Emmanuel Mulambya, under supervision of Prof Hermien Zaaiman.​​

 

 

•   2020 Dec 3: UARM Phd Graduation. Celebrating UARM's first PhD graduate. Dr Emmanuel Mulambya became the first person to graduate with PhD in Economic and Management Sciences with Risk Management. The title of his study was "Programme risk management: challenges and proposed solutions". He worked under the supervision of Prof. Hermien Zaaiman.

 

• 2019 Oct 23: Prof. The Kocken receives his certificate on his appointment as extraordinary professor at UARM from Prof. Herman van der Merwe. For a copy of the programme, click here

 

• 2019 Oct 23: Extraordinary professiorial acceptance lecture by Prof. Theo Kocken. For a video interview with him on his lecture, click here

• 2019 May 3: Extraordinary professiorial acceptance lecture by Prof. Marise Born and Prof. Henk van der Flier. For a video interview with her on the lecture, click here. Coverage of the event in the local press can be found here. 

• 2019 Apr 15: Jaco van Wyk won the prize as the top student of the Class of 2018. Click here to view a video interview with him.​​ 

• 2019 Apr 15: UARM Graduation - Class of 2018, comprising of seven graduates.​​ 

• 2018 Nov 19: Prof. Gert Jan Hofstede receives his certificate on his appointment as extraordinary professor at UARM from Prof. Linda du Plessis 

• 2018 Nov 19: Extraordinary professiorial acceptance lecture by Prof. Gert Jan Hofstede. For a video interview with him on his lecture, click here​​ 

• 2018 May 9: UARM Graduation - Class of 2017, comprising of five graduates. 

• 2018 Apr 19-20: UARM Risk Culture Workshop, Click here to read more about it. Prof Marise Born from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam also presented a guest lecture on organisational leadership and culture at the "Risk Data and Reporting" contact session in May. 

• 2018 Mar 20: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Student Excellence Awards - Malora Zeller receives the prize as top student. Click here to view a video interview with her.​​ 

• 2018 Feb 26: Hermien Zaaiman facilitates a workshop on conservation risk for Birdlife SA - read more here. 

• 2018 Jan 25: UARM facilitates a workshop on risk culture with the North-West Development Coorporation - read more here.​​ 

• 2017 Nov 9: Cardano Strategic Thinking Workshop​​ 

 

• 2017 Oct 26: Annual screening of the Boom Bust Boom movie at Killarney Mall as part of the Behavioural Risk Management module

 

• 2017 May 12: UARM Graduation - Class of 2016, comprising of seven graduates. 

• 2017 Mar 31: UARM Graduate Symposium - celebrating the achievers in the Graduates of 2016

• 2016 Sep 12: A leading expert in organisational culture, Professor Gert Jan Hofstede from the Wageningen University, conducts a workshop on the topic with the UARM team. The UARM research focus on risk culture is expected to benefit from this body of knowledge. Mr Fred Goede, senior lecturer at UARM, will be doing his PhD under Prof Hofstede on the topic "Safety culture in high risk industries - a sociotechnical approach" 

• 2016 Apr 22: Graduation of first cohort of MARM students

In what has been described in a NWU news flash (read more here) as a momentous milestone, the first set of seven masters students graduated from the programme. 

• 2016 Apr 4: The first UARM Graduate Symposium

The top 4 students of the 2015 Graduates presented their researh to an open audience at IRMSA. Two trophies were awarded. The trophy for the Top Student over the duration of the programme was taken by Johan Grobbelaar. The trophy for the Best Presentation on the day went to Chan Naidoo.

• 2015 Oct 30: UARM is again a winner at the annual IRMSA awards.

The UARM Master's Programme in Applied Risk Management was judged to be the winner of the "Education" industry specific risk inititaive.

• 2015 Jun 25: UARM meets with international experts in behavioural finance in support of the Centre's focus on behavioural risk.

 

• 2014 Sep: UARM is included as one of the flagship research projects in the "NWU Research Dynamics".

 

• 2014 Mar 6-8: The first intake for the Master's Programme in Applied Risk Management (MARM) contact sessions were held at the UARM venue.

• 2013 Oct 4: UARM is a winner at the annual IRMSA (South African Institute for Risk Management) awards

The UARM Master's Programme in Applied Risk Management was judged to be the winner of two industry specific risk inititaives of the annual IRMSA awards,

namely "Education" and also the "Overall Industry Specific Risk Initiative Special Award for Recognition of Exceptional Service"

 

• 2013 Master's Programme in Applied Risk Management (MARM) Launch

Click here to view a document explaining the founding vision of the programme.

(Please note that some of the information on the programme has changed in the interim - refer to the NWU academic calendar for the current information)