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Land Reform and Rural Production in South Africa
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (2019) argued that ‘land reform must be oriented around growing the agricultural sector to foster economic development, and not purely be an endeavour to transfer land’.
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Occupational Health and Well-being in the Performing Arts in South Africa: The formation of an interdisciplinary Performing Arts Health network led by the universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria
This project aims to consolidate and develop a national Performing Arts Health network led by Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria for interdisciplinary scholarly activity in the field of performing arts health in South Africa.
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Mineral Wealth and Distributive Struggles on the Platinum Belt, South Africa
This project explores distributive struggles on the platinum belt in South Africa.
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Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.
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Protein deficiency, sarcopenia and cardiometabolic risk in an older urban black South African population: A cross-sectional feasibility study
South Africa (SA) is a low-middle income country (LMIC) with an ageing population and increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD).
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After the Eruption: Reflections on Higher Education in South Africa
At this critical historical conjuncture in South Africa, at the very precipice of tumultuous social change, multiple forces converge onto the stage of higher education in South Africa.
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Deep learning network for South African birdsong and its wider implications on the concept of intelligence
We develop an operational convolutional neural network, that distinguishes 170 different South African birdsongs.
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Expertise and Public Participation in Government Policymaking: South Africa in Comparative Context
The fellowship at STIAS will build on my prior work on comparative administrative law dealing with public participation in policymaking.
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Promoting peace, security and development in Africa: challenges, and constraints to South Africa’s African Agenda
The purpose of this research project is to (further) explore aspects of South Africa’s African policy over the past two decades, specifically within the frameworks of its African Agenda and its white paper on foreign policy, The Diplomacy of Ubuntu.
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What Keeps Society Together? Societal Cohesion, South Africa as a Challenging Case.
My overall research interest is about societal cohesion, what keeps a society together.
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Many Modernities ‐ Religious freedom in South Africa and Sweden
In Europe with a history of religious wars and big national churches, freedom of religion is often understood as freedom from, at least from institutional religion.
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Making primary health care work for the poor
South Africa’s poor health outcomes have traditionally been attributed to poverty, unequal and ineffective spending and the high disease burden, but increasingly it is recognized that the public health system may also be contributing to such problems by delivering services that do not always conform to the stipulated standards.
