Media
HSRC provides media briefs (or press releases) on a regular basis to the media. Here you can browse the archive of media briefs.
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20 Mar 2018 | HSRC's study on Vuwani yields lessons for citizen engagement and social cohesion
Pretoria, Tuesday 20 March 2018 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) today released the result...
19 Mar 2018 | HSRC study in Vuwani holds meaningful lessons for public engagement and service delivery
Coming ahead of Human Rights Day, the Human Sciences Research Council will on Tuesday 20 March 2018 launch the results of its exploratory study in Vuw...
19 Mar 2018 | HSRC study in Vuwani holds meaningful lessons for public engagement and service delivery
Coming ahead of Human Rights Day, the Human Sciences Research Council will on Tuesday 20 March 2018 launch the results of its exploratory study in Vuw...
9 Mar 2018 | Emerging scholars from SADC region meet to discuss Africa's socio-economic transformation
Pretoria, Thursday 9 March 2018 – Close to 100 young academics from southern Africa will meet at Birchwood Hotel for the 12th Africa Young Gradu...
6 Mar 2018 | HSRC to collaborate with Angola's Development Workshop to look at building sustainable cities
Pretoria, Wednesday 7 March 2018 – According to estimates by UN-Habitat at least 200 million people live in informal human settlements in Africa...
1 Feb 2018 | National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey underway
31 January 2018 | Cape Town | South Africa’s first survey to assess the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the country has been commissioned by t...
22 Jan 2018 | Human Sciences Research Council study finds corruption hurts local R&D and innovation
In this regard, the World Bank’s September 2017, 10th South Africa Economic Update observes that innovation can raise South Africa’s compe...
10 Jan 2018 | First South African study looking at HIV prevalence in transgender women contributes to global 90-90-90 target
Speaking about the significance of this study in South Africa, the HSRC’s Deputy CEO: Research, Professor Leickness Simbayi said, “Through...
4 Jan 2018 | First South African study to look at HIV prevalence in transgender women
Pretoria, Thursday 4 January 2018 – Initiated and supported by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with funding f...
11 Dec 2017 | Increasing prominence for HSRC at SFSA 2017
Pretoria, Monday 11 December 2017 – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) was an active participant in many of the conversations about scie...