Thought Leadership

Youth inequality accumulates over a life course, but there are critical moments where policy and programming can intervene to alleviate inequality and safeguard more just futures for young people.  By Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel | February [...]

Shivani Ranchod | February 2023 I have an abiding respect for the power of collective wisdom. It’s one of the reasons I love the Time To Think methodologies that we use at Percept – I’m [...]

Suhavna Khalawan | February 2023 I’m a proud millennial. I’ve experienced technology in all shapes and forms. From a DOS operating system and dial up internet, to the interconnected technology of today, where everything but [...]

Ursula Torr | February 2023 It’s a bit of a situation we’ve cooked up for ourselves here with this demonstration that all non-physical productivity can be better done by bots, now or very soon. This [...]

Dave Strugnell | February 2023 Alan Turing had a remarkable - and remarkably sad – life. A gifted mathematician, a brilliant codebreaker during the Second World War, a renowned contributor to the nascent post-war world [...]

Sorina Oberholzer | February 2023 There’s a poem by Kenyatta Rogers called Labyrinth. It evokes for me the bleakness of those first weeks of hard lockdown – the starkness, the experience of loneliness, the unseasonable chill. The sense [...]

Shivani Ranchod | October 2022 Percept toasts to five years of building a fierce, wholehearted collective Right from the get-go, Percept has had a life force of its own, superseding the individuals involved. The name [...]

Beth Vale | September 2022 Like many working in the health sector, we've seen an explosion of telehealth innovation over the past few years, with COVID forcing providers to do healthcare differently. Mobile phones made [...]

Shivani Ranchod | August 2022 Women’s Month. Eliciting so many feelings. Feelings of rage at the violence that women are still subjected to. An embodied feeling of the unexpressed NO – the trans-generational encoding of experiences [...]

July 2022 By By Rose Tuyeni Peter, Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel For current and future generations to flourish, we need to build and harness multi-dimensional forms of intergenerational wealth: the health, education, financial security and social [...]

April 2022 By Beth Vale and Emma Finestone Our health systems are often blind to households – they only see individual patients. However, one thing is plain: the future of healthcare (particularly for non-communicable diseases) will [...]

February 2022 By Anja Smith, Dave Strugnell and Daryl Swanepoel Ensuring a high-quality education system is the single most important thing that can be done to reduce inequality. The country has made significant strides in increasing [...]