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Social sciences and humanities R&D expenditure and performance in South Africa (2005-2015): Where to next?

30 May 2017
12:30 - 14:00

Invitation

Presenter: Dr Neo Molotja, Senior Research Specialist, Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators

Chair: Dr Glenda Kruss, Deputy-Executive Director, Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators

Photo credit: http://mwu.edu.np

Date: 21 July 2017
Time:  12h30 – 14h00
Venues: Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town 

The social sciences and humanities are widely understood to have a crucial role to play in addressing complex developmental and environmental issues, such as poverty, inequality or climate change. Building from the vision of the Charter for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2011), the establishment of the South African National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NISS) in 2013 has been part of a purposeful effort in South Africa to ensure research in the humanities and social sciences disciplines is advanced and coordinated. However, a very recent study performed by the University of KwaZulu-Natal for the Global Development Network has found that the “status of the social science research in the country is by and large not in an appreciable state and much deserves to be done for its enhancement” (GDN, 2016:89). Drawing from the latest data from the SA National Survey on Research & Experimental Development 2014/15, released on 12 April 2017, this seminar will address three key questions:

  1. What are the notable patterns of R&D expenditure in the humanities and social sciences over the past ten years?
  2. What are the drivers of R&D performance in humanities and social sciences related fields?
  3. In what ways can policy be geared toward the mission of advancing and coordinating the humanities and social sciences in the context of the prioritisation of R&D expenditure and performance in the natural sciences and engineering?

For more information about the HSRC Seminar Series on Innovation and Development in collaboration with the Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators, contact Gerard Ralphs (gralphs@hsrc.ac.za).

Kindly RSVP by 20 July 2017

The HSRC seminar series is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The views and opinions expressed therein  as well as findings and statements of the seminar series do not necessarily represent the views of DST.

The HSRC seminar series is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The views and opinions expressed therein  as well as findings and statements of the seminar series do not necessarily represent the views of DST.

Pretoria : HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria. Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za

Cape Town : HSRC, Merchant House 116-118 Buitengracht Street Cape Town, Cape Town. Contact: Jean Witten, Tel (021) 4668004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or JWitten@hsrc.ac.za

Durban : 
The Atrium, 5th Floor, 430 Peter Mokaba Ridge, Berea, 4001 , Contact Ridhwaan Khan, Tel (031) 242 5400, cell: 083 788 2786 or RKhan@hsrc.ac.za , or Hlengiwe Zulu at e-mail HZulu@hsrc.ac.za