Phuza Wize Meadowlands – Speakers’ backgrounds
Dr Neo Morojele is the Deputy Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit of the Medical Research Council. She has experience in conducting substance abuse research in treatment, health, school, bar and community settings. She is currently involved in studies on alcohol and other drug use and HIV-related sexual risk behaviour. She also conducts research on adolescent substance [...]
Phuza Wize Pinetown – Speakers’ backgrounds
Professor Charles Parry is the Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Unit (ADARU). He is also an Extraordinary Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Stellenbosch.
He received graduate training in South Africa (MSc) and the USA (MA, PhD) in clinical/community psychology and mathematical statistics and has published over [...]
Phuza Wize round table: 3 March at Sedibeng in Meadowlands, Gauteng
09:45-10:00
(15 mins)
REGISTRATION & TEA
10:00-10:15
(15 mins)
WELCOME
Birgit Schwarz (project director, frayintermedia)
10:15-10:30
(15 mins)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Phuza Wize: Why the need for this campaign?
Speaker: Dr Sue Goldstein (senior executive, Soul City Institute)
10:30-11:30
(1 hour)
SEMINAR 1:
Understanding the Link Between Violence and Alcohol Consumption
Expert: Dr Neo Morojele (deputy director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council)
Facilitator: [...]
Phuza Wize round table: 1 March at the Rainbow in Pinetown KZN
09:30-10:00
(30 mins)
REGISTRATION & TEA
10:00-10:15
(15 mins)
WELCOME
Michael Schmidt (managing director , frayintermedia)
10:15-10:30
(15 mins)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Phuza Wize: Why the need for this campaign?
Speaker: Dr Sue Goldstein (Soul City Alcohol Reduction and Violence Prevention Campaign Manager)
10:30-11:30
(1 hour)
SEMINAR 1: Understanding the Link Between Violence and Alcohol Consumption
Experts: Prof Charles Parry (director, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, South African [...]
Are we a nation of violent drinkers? Soul City launches Phuza Wize
Whatever your answer, the available research paints a horrifying picture:
More than half of the victims of non-fatal and fatal violence test positive for alcohol in urban areas. Most violence-related deaths occur on Saturdays and Sundays, when binge drinking is common. Binge drinking is defined as having 5 or more drinks in a day. Alcohol is [...]
Research scientists translating to ordinary mortals
There are scientists in Southern Africa doing incredible, ground-breaking research, but their work doesn’t get into the media because scientists talk in their own language – which journalists don’t usually understand.
To help scientists get their work into the public domain, frayintermedia will present a morning session to scientists at a workshop in Gaborone on March [...]
Newspapers learning in community
How can small community newspapers and magazines be made viable? Delegates from several provinces, sponsored by the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), will be pooling their experiences and ideal solutions at a two-day workshop.
frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt will be a speaker at the forum for community media on February 11 and 12, convened by the [...]
Training government journalists – being fair, accurate and balanced
frayintermedia’s Michael Schmidt conducted a two-day workshop on “Online to print” for government journalists on February 4 and 5.
GCIS, the Government Communication Information System, approached frayintermedia to provide training to a group of their journalists who work for BuaNews, the Government news agency. These journalists work mostly online, but needed to acquire skills in writing [...]
frayintermedia’s Birgit Schwarz training “Reporting diversity, migration and development” 2009
February 2, 2010 by tvanwyk
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Award-winning author Adam Hochschild and Prof. Anton Harber at the 2008 Narrative Journalism Conference
February 2, 2010 by tvanwyk
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