Dr Jare Struwig

TELEPHONE: 012 302 2511
EMAIL: jstruwig@hsrc.ac.za

Mrs Jare Struwig is a chief research manager in the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research programme. She holds an MA in Research Psychology from the University of Pretoria and is registered as a psychometrist and research psychologist at the South African Medical and Dentistry Council. She was also a part time lecturer at UNISA and TUT where she taught courses in research methods and statistics in psychology, to both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Tourism and Environmental Management at the University of Pretoria. She is also the South African representative on the International Social Surveys Programme (ISSP) where she advises on best practices and research methodologies in surveys research in Africa. She has served as a member of the HSRC?s ethics committee and Bid Adjudication Committee.

Experience and special projects: Prior to joining the HSRC she worked at the University of Pretoria as an assistant lecturer and did her research internship at Afrosearch. At the onset of her research career at the HSRC she focussed on media monitoring, researching the impact of TV on South Africans. This research involved formative evaluation and aimed at promoting well-being among South Africans. During the 1994, 1996 and 1999 elections, she was seconded to the Independent Broadcasting Authority to undertake media monitoring of elections to ensure fairness in terms of the Broadcasting Act. This set the scene for her involvement in all subsequent elections undertaking Voter Participation Surveys and Election Satisfaction Surveys for the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), determining the freeness and fairness of elections.

For the past 15 years, her interest has shifted to large-scale national quantitative surveys. She was one of the researchers who established the longstanding annual South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). This survey won the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Data for Research Award in 2017. Clients of this survey include the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa; the Financial Services Board; the Open Society Foundation South Africa; the Nuclear Energy Cooperation of South Africa; the Department of Education; Department of Energy; South African Revenue Services; Department of Science and Technology; Department of Defence as well as higher educational institutions such as the University of Pretoria and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU). International clients include the European Social Survey and from the National Opinion Research Center?s (NORC) in the US. In addition to specialising in quantitative studies, she has also been involved in various qualitative studies on a variety of topics and environmental assessments.

Publications: Jare Struwig has published 15 peer reviewed journal articles in both local and international journals, over 200 research reports and 27 book chapters. She also co-edited a book entitled Family Matters: Family cohesion, values and strengthening in South Africa which was published by HSRC in 2019. The book was included in the NIHSS 2020 Awards longlist, under the non-fiction edited volume category. She has also presented several papers at both local and international conferences.

Recent

By Election Study Phase 2

Building on the work in Phase 1, the focus of this component of the research would entail working with the Electoral Commission in order to: (i) inclu....

STUDY 2: Adoption of Election Technologies

One of the strategic objectives of the Electoral Commission of South Africa is to ???provide cutting edge, stable, secure ICT environment that meets a....

STUDY 3: By-Election Research (PHASE 1)

One notable gap in relation to this series is monitoring dynamics and developing a more nuanced understanding of context in relation to municipal by-e....

STUDY 1: Public Perceptions and Knowledge of the Political Party Funding Act (PPFA)

The Commission will be able to undertake its responsibilities more effectively if there is a broader awareness and understanding of the PPFA, includin....

The 2021 Social Unrest in South Africa: Primary survey-based research

With reference to the unrest in KZN and Gauteng and its far-reaching social and economic impacts on the country, this research is to better understand....

National Health Insurance Project (NHI)

AIM: 21- 22 FY: To assess South African's public perceptions and attitudes towards NHI and the confounding effects of Covid-19. More specifically th....

University of the Witwatersrand DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development (B Roberts)

Generation of Change South African Attitudes Towards Climate Change in Comparative Perspective. ....

Limpopo 2020: Evaluating Armed Forces Day

The main aim of this study is to determine the impact of Armed Forces Day 2020. Armed Forces Day will be held in Limpopo on 21 February 2020 and a co....

4th Industrial Revolution &Human; Development (OPP2019-4IRHD-6)

One (1) paper in press or published To produce one journal article/s for an accredited journal Submit evidence of the submission, acceptance and/or p....

Vision 2018 (IEC)

Understand the level of employee knowledge and awareness of Vision 2018 To evaluate the extent to which organisational experiences match up to the gui....

Curating, Mining and Analysing Successive Electoral Commission Surveys

To trace all datasets pertaining to elections done by the HSRC on behalf of the Electoral Commission since 1999 To create a single dataset which comb....

NRF-DST Understanding of South African attitude to Climate Change & Energy (SASAS)

Global Change Grand Challenge: Release of 35386.22 approved on grant 114618 (B Roberts) for Running Expenses....

SANDF - Armed Forces Day Project

More specifically the research will aim to determine if: (i) The event served to unite South Africans behind the SANDF; (ii) The event allowed the SA....

Project on Developing an HSRC Indicator Dashboard project

There is a direct and urgent need to produce an HSRC Indicator Dashboard populated with HSRC produced survey data, as collated by Data Curation. This ....

Survey on Career Pathing and development of Women as part of promoting Gender Mainstreaming in the Electoral Commission of south Africa

Recent deliberations by the Commissioners of the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) raised concerns that very few women apply for and /or are ....

Family Cohesion, Values and Strengthening in promoting Family well-being in South Africa

The broad objective of the study is to enhance knowledge of family-related dynamics, cohesiveness, orientations and preferences (hereafter referred to....

Millennium Development Goals 2,6,7

Statistics South Africa is leading the writing of a comprehensive progress report to measure the country's progress towards achieving the targets set ....

IEC Exit Poll Survey (Election Satisfaction Survey (ESS) Project

The intention of an exit poll is to determine the experiences of voters on Election Day. Experiences are fresh in the minds of the selected voters and....