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Mariaan Wicks is a registered dietitian and serves as the subject head and senior lecturer in Dietetics at North-West University, South Africa. She has a special interest in nutrition-focused interventions to combat and prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases, with a specific focus on nutrient profiling and food labelling. She earned her PhD…
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Mariaan Wicks
Jan 14, 2025 - Mariaan Wicks is a registered dietitian and serves as the subject head and senior lecturer in Dietetics at North-West University, South Africa. She has a special interest in nutrition-focused interventions to combat and prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases, with a specific focus on nutrient profiling and food labelling. She earned her PhD…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/consumer-sciences/staff
Staff
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Postgraduate Studies
Feb 08, 2023 - Postgraduate Studies in Consumer Sciences After completing one of the four year programs a student can be admitted to an M in Consumer Sciences. Admission is subject to a selection process as well as available capacity in the subject group. After that, a student can be enrolled for a PhD degree in Consumer Sciences, provided that the stated…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/consumer-sciences/projects
Research projects
Jun 03, 2026 - Recently completed postgraduate projects of PhD students Botha, E. 2023. A consumer infant vaccination decision model in South Africa. Promotor: Prof. D. van der Merwe; co-promotors: Prof. R.J. Burnett and Prof. P. Bester. Dreyer, H. 2023. Towards an understanding of shades of green consumer behaviour in South Africa: A social-cognitive…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/occupational-hygiene/study-occupational-hygiene
Study Occupational Hygiene
Mar 27, 2024 - [accordion collapsed] What is Occupational Hygiene? Occupational Hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large. Take a look at a…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/pharmacen
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Aug 18, 2024 - The Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacen™) is a research entity with a clear focus. The programmes of our research entity are linked to national priorities and have international research impact. Pharmacen™ currently consists of three research programmes: Translational neuroscience and neurotherapeutics;…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/compres
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Feb 23, 2026 - [accordion collapsed] Writing Cabin in Wellington, Western Cape COMPRES is excited to partner with the Centre for Child, Youth, and Family Studies (CCYF) at North-West University to bring researchers a unique retreat space: The Writing Cabin. Set in the scenic Winelands at NWU's Western Cape Regional Office, this space is…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/pharmacen/about-us
About us
Jun 04, 2024 - This research entity was established in 1999 when the first focus areas were identified on grounds of the proven research output. During the first five years of its existence, a number of changes have occurred which include a change of name, refocusing and, to a certain extent, increased focusing of the research programmes. A new director,…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/pharmacen/staff
Staff
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Drug Delivery
Jun 04, 2024 - The members of the drug delivery sub-programme conduct research on drug delivery processes across biological membranes in order to deliver more patient-effective drugs and the development of novel cost-effective drug delivery systems. Research topics: Optimal physico-chemical properties for an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/pharmacen/drug-discovery
Drug Discovery
Jun 04, 2024 - The members of the drug discovery sub-programme have expertise in organic synthesis, structure elucidation, biochemical screening, molecular modelling and property determination. Research topics Design, synthesise and characterise chemical compounds of interest; Evaluate the activities of the compounds at selected biochemical…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/healthethics/cell-line-research
Cell Line Research
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Research Monitoring
Jan 26, 2026 - RECs have the right to monitor the research they approve. The National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) sees this monitoring role of RECs as very important. The South African National Standard: The Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes (SANS 10386:2008) also makes specific reference to monitoring. RECs may…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/healthethics/pcddp