Publication
Measuring the legal protection of academic freedom: The scorecard for South Africa
Beiter, K. D., & Karran, T. 2025. Measuring the legal protection of academic freedom: The scorecard for South Africa. South African Jour...
Project
A new History of the University and addressing the fundamental issue of the future for cinema studies in times of media convergence.
As former President of Stockholm University, stepping down on Jan 31 2025, my first concern will be to write a brief chapter to a new History of the University, to be published for its 150 year anniversary in 2028, where I have been asked to contribute with a brief summary of my experiences from 12 years of presidency.
Project
Academic Freedom and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Conflicts and Dilemmas in Higher Education
Decolonization may be taken as a phase in the history of colonized people that is represented by a movement towards a critique of colonial effects during both colonialism and postcolonialism.
Project
Making Sense of Postgraduate Education in Context
Discourses related to globalisation privilege the role of knowledge workers in economic development.
Publication
The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer
Koch, Susanne, and Weingart, Peter. 2016. The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer. African Minds: Cape Town. http://www.africanminds.co.za/wp-con...
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Good policy; bad policy
This project proposes to examine three key policies, one in each ministry, in the form of a memoir on how decisions were taken and implemented.
Project
Alienation, protest and the idea of a manifesto
The principal aim of this period of writing and research is to complete a chapter from a short book, tentatively entitled Marx@Marikana: Reading Marx in South Africa today.
