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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2022 Liberation and looted malls: fractured urbanism and suburban nationalism in South Africa in the time of Covid

In 2003, Ivor Chipkin (2003) published a study which found that the provision of improved physical infrastructure (taps, housing, new school...

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2021 Another student revolution?

A wave of student activism is sweeping the world. Countries and regions such as Algeria, Bolivia, Britain, Catalonia, Chile, Ecuador, France...

2021 Rapid photovoice as a close-up, emancipatory methodology in student experience research: the case of the student movement violence and wellbeing study

In this paper, we critically reflect on our conceptualization and operationalization of 'rapid photovoice' as a close-up, emancipatory, acti...

2021 After 2021: reimagining South African shopping malls

In the torrent of media coverage that accompanied the widespread looting and violence in South Africa's Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces ...

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