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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: UNIVERSITIES
2021 Universities as change agents in resource-poor communities: a typology to assess current practice and inform future strategies
This policy brief addresses an important question for policy: How can universities act as change agents in their local contexts? Engagement ...
Download this report2021 Narratives of young black men on barriers to health care and poor health care seeking behaviours at a university setting: a qualitative study
Institutions of higher learning provide education, training, independence and life-long skills for young people. However, for students to ac...
2021 Tweeting #FeesMustFall: the online life and offline protests of a networked student movement
In 2015, students made history in South Africa. The wave of the so-called hashtag,"MustFall," or Fallist" protests started with RhodesMustFa...
2021 The 15 minute city-campus: post-Covid African university precincts
In his 2016 article, Reimagining the city from the internet up, Dan Doctoroff argued that cities and towns that are based on the internet an...