Overview

The Faculty of Development and Behavioural Sciences offers innovative programs designed to produce graduates equipped to resolve problems and implement relevant, practical strategies to tackle development hurdles. The faculty focuses on enhancing university education with suitable, effective, and sustainable strategies concerning development and its impact on both the environment and humanity. Today, policymakers, development practitioners and regional planners must address the challenges posed by development for society, as well as the influence of humanity on development processes. The faculty offers solutions to tackle the diverse development challenges faced by communities. Given the challenges of Generation Z and global existential crises, informed policy and development choices are essential. Moreover, this faculty takes pride in its highly qualified and experienced staff, whose contributions are well recognised within their fields.

Degrees offered are inclined towards development and public management themes. The overarching intention is to link undergraduate and postgraduate students to the opportunities for careers in public policy, development and regional planning fields. Our exciting educational programmes also improve emotional intelligence among other soft skills such as communication, reasoning, interpersonal dynamics and complex social interactions. These skills are critical for the success of 21st-century problem-solving and rational thinking graduates. Through our internship programmes, students can apply classroom learning to actual job situations, enabling them to learn from practice and apply theory to real-world experiences. The faculty is accelerating efforts to place research in regional planning, development and public policy at the heart of all academic activities and views such empirical research as part of lifelong learning. Therefore, the Faculty aims to identify ground-breaking research that carries the greatest potential for radical socio-economic transformation. The faculty understands that research should inform innovation and should provide solutions to problems debilitating developing communities. Over and above the academic training, teaching and research, the Faculty also offers various training programmes to our external primary stakeholders on good governance, policy formulation, policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation, public health and other related fields.

The Faculty is organised into four departments, each addressing a critical area of development, governance and behavioural sciences. Each of these departments is designed to nurture a unique set of competencies that equip graduates to respond to national, regional, and global development challenges.