DST - Conduct Human & Social Dynamics Science Seminars and Government Cluster Policy Workshops Programme

STATUS: Current
PROJECT LEADER:Roscigno, C (Mrs Carolina), Masilela, BST (Dr Temba)
OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: Ngobeni, TF (Mrs Tshepho), Chakauya, S.T. (Ms Tsitsi), Botopela, EN (Ms Ella), Botopela, EN (Ms Ella), Bantwini, B.D. (Dr Bongani), Segobye, A.K. (Prof Alinah), Grossberg, AC (Ms Arlene), Du Plessis, HM (Dr Hester), Solomon, EH (Ms Happy), Taljaard, M. (Ms Marise)
DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: Impact Centre (IC), Impact Centre (PRESS), Impact Centre (CC)
RESEARCH OUTPUTS: Urbanisation: how to harness the potential?, Bi-literacy and multilingualism in schools: managing learning and teaching in local and international languages, Child health: improving the quality of care during the first 1000 days, Evidence-based deliberation and evidence-informed policy development, Substance abuse, harm reduction and harm prevention, A booklet for policy makers: scientific evidence to help guide policy, Composite Multiyear Managerial Report 2011-2014, The state of families in South Africa: mapping existing research and identifying gaps, Education and skills development for employment, Implementing strategies towards a low carbon economy, Youth development modalities and sustainable livelihoods: Policy and implementation perspectives on the National Rural Youth Services Corps (NARYSEC) Programme, Policy-relevant indicators to monitor household food security, Reflections on the case for Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) extension workers in the social sector, Linking knowledge producers and marginalised communities, Promoting an enllightened scientific temper in BRICS: a contribution to a youth policy dialogue, Exploring the opportunities of an Africa-based system of innovation, Preserving and providing access to South African Social Science and Humanities research data, Linking the South African system of innovation with the rest of Africa: exploring challenges and opportunities, Practical aspects of implementing a single payer National health Insurance (NHI) universal coverage in South Africa: experiences from countries, Youth development modalities and sustainable livelihoods: Policy and implementation perspectives on the National Rural Youth Services Corps (NARYSEC) Programme: exploring the relationship between spatial inequality and attitudes to inequality in South Africa
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Abstract

Science Seminars: - Disseminate scientific Research and transmit a body of new knowledge (through an iterative process of critical dialogue and collegial critique) to the social sciences and humanities research community (rather than the policy community); - Provide an arena for high profile researchers, including researchers from rural-based universities, to present and discuss new and on going research, identify research gaps, and suggest new research agendas in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) with a view to forging closer links between the research communities in these fields; - Reinforce the visibility of SSH research to the higher education and science council sector; - Enhance wider public understanding of the SSH, including the value and status of both individual and team-based research; - Strategically promote, develop, and coordinate collaborative and interdisciplinary research within and between HEIs and Science Councils Policy Workshops: - Inform and influence policy makers; - Bring in leading thinkers representing a mixture of government and academia capable of developing or interpreting an intellectual theme (not just \"latest knowledge\") and establishing a common vocabulary for the day; - Correspondingly, the seminats are based on a combination of masterclass analysis and problem-solution debate; - Are designed to foster audience-speaker interaction, including use of \"Chatham House Rules\" (no attribution, outside the room of ideas discussed in it) when appropriate; - Rely on networking to attract an invited, committed and informed audience, including front line decision makers from the government cluster system.