Research data
The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: HUMANITIES
2021 A Praetorian sensibility?: the making of the humanities and social sciences through the tangled histories of the HSRC and the Humanities Faculty in Pretoria
I begin, then, with the position that the institutions the University of Pretoria, the Bureau and the HSRC have complex histories. They were...
2021 Hack with a grenade: an editor's backstories of SA news
It is a book about journalism but also about South African life. It is also a social commentary that begins to strip away our prejudices as ...
2021 Miriam Tlali: writing freedom
Miriam Tlali was a novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and activist against apartheid and patriarchal confinement. She worke...
2019 Social sciences and humanities R&D investment in South Africa: current priorities, future needs
This policy brief uses the R&D data as a proxy, to propose that institutional R&D planners and national policymakers need to find a greater ...