21 After three years we are finally coming to the end of clearing the Development Studies MA and PHD administrative backlog which had built-up over the years. Our MA coordinators (Timm, Gastrow) have taken responsibility for running our successful weekly seminar programme, which is now finally coherently aligned to administration of the anthropology PhD programme (Stadler), and follows on from the success witnessed in the previous years in bringing coherence and order to the MA programme in development studies (Nedziwe, Timm). Our MA coordinators (Timm, Gastrow) have taken responsibility for running our very weekly successful PG seminar programme, which has already had significant effects in improving the quality of MA output. Our strategy of bringing postgraduate provision at all levels (Hons, MA and PhD) together across the disciplinary divide between anthropology and development studies is beginning to bear fruit, encouraging a sense of cohesion and productive peer-to-peer learning and support for our research students. The Hons programme in both development studies and anthropology has been the focus of more recent re-organisation efforts, and we are moving steadily towards fully integrating development studies and anthropology hons options for students in both subjects. For two years hons students in the two subjects have shared key methodological courses, and supervision has been shared across the disciplinary divide in the department, matching increasing co-supervision of PhD and MA students across both sides of the department. In 2022, attention will continue to be focused on hons, as we continue to pursue the strategy of bringing the two hons programmes and their students together. Staffing changes At the end of 2021, we say goodbye to several members of staff who have been key to ADS for many years: David Moore, Joyce Ferreira and Naude Malan. Malan has not left UJ but rather moved to another faculty, but his cheerful upbeat presence is already missed. He continues to be a friend of the department and to co-supervise several research students. David Moore has been the heavy weight academic of the department for many years now, a role now increasingly to be given over to newer staff. It is fitting that he should be leaving amidst the success of his recently published monograph, and his wonderful SADS seminar series. He promises to continue to be a presence in and around the department, but his wise counsel and his erudite ability to critically come to heart of any academic matter quickly, but with grace, wit and kindness will surely be missed. His departure is a great loss not only to ADS but to the faculty and to UJ. Likewise, Joyce, who has managed, beyond everybody else, to keep the department functioning through a series of crisis over many years, has rightly earned the respect and friendship of everyone in ADS and many elsewhere across the faculty. Like David, her warm presence and vital contributions to the running of the department will be sharply missed. Both these departures undoubtedly leave ADS in a slightly more perilous position than we would have wanted to be, but we are confident that the work done over recent years to bring anthropology and development studies together in closer intellectual, teaching and administrative collaboration will stand ADS in good stead going forward. We are excited about the prospects of new vacancies being filled in the coming year, to bring new energies, synergies and collaborative possibilities to bear on our diverse and energetic department, taking our research, our teaching and the general life of the department forward in new directions. Department of Politics and International Relations Teaching and Learning linked to impactful research The year 2021 has been one of mostly smooth and seamless teaching and learning for the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) owing to the incredible efforts of our lecturers, their assistants and the tutoring team. Overall, both undergraduate and postgraduate throughputs have increased or remained stable compared to 2020. The year also saw a revived
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