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2 Aug 2019 | EPD researcher Tim Hart exchanges knowledge with the Research Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at the University of Coventry

Tim Hart, a Senior Research Project Manager in the HSRC's Economic Performance and Development research programme, visited the Research Centre for Agr...

2 Aug 2019 | HSRC signs $5 million dollar contract with Mastercard Foundation

The HSRC has just signed a contract for a five-year-long research study that will investigate the effect of tertiary education on academically talente...

2 Aug 2019 | Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller appointed to editorial board of African Journal of Gender and Religion

Professor Narnia Bohler-Muller, Executive Director of the HSRC's DGSD research programme has been appointed to the editorial board of the African Jour...

31 Jul 2019 | EPD innovation studies team leads SALGA consultative workshop

The HSRC Economic Performance and Development (EPD) team co-leading the digitisation of the Municipal Innovation Maturity Index (MIMI), a project fund...

30 Jul 2019 | AIDSImpact 2019: HSRC presentations

The HSRC is sending a delegation to the AIDSImpact conference once again this year. This is the 14th edition of the conference and it will be held in ...

26 Jul 2019 | The Stellenbosch launch of Poverty & Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Responses

Responding to poverty and inequality in South Africa requires more than focussing on the structural aspects of the economy. The humiliation that gener...

24 Jul 2019 | Launch of 'The Cape Radicals': Remembering South Africa's early thinkers who saw through racial ideology

Deep in the heart of late 1930’s Cape Town, a theory of anti-racialism began to emerge from a group of young thinkers who called themselves the ...

24 Jul 2019 | EDP Presents at Exploratory Workshop to Assist the Northern Cape Innovation Forum (NCIF)

Dr. Sikhulumile Sinyolo,  Dr. Peter Jacobs and Dr. Irma Booyens from EPD presented on the Tools for Local Innovation Advancement (T4LIA), develo...

22 Jul 2019 | HSRC signs MoU with National Foundations Dialogue Initiative

To formalise and strengthen collaboration opportunities in areas of research development and public dialogue, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSR...

22 Jul 2019 | HSRC signs MoU with National Foundations Dialogue Initiative

To formalise and strengthen collaboration opportunities in areas of research development and public dialogue, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSR...