VC Inaugural Lecture with Prof Linda Ronnie

Prof Linda Ronnie from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Commerce presented the Vice-Chancellor’s Inaugural Lecture on 28 September 2022 at the UCT Graduate School of Business.

Her lecture was titled: “Women in academia: Thriving or Surviving?”, and focused on the psychological contract – the relationship between academics and their institutions and how that has been changing over the last decade. The lecture examined the psychological contract from the perspectives of women academics in South Africa at a turbulent time for universities.