Description:
The seminars focused on HSRC projects that were underway in 2015-2016 and related work being done elsewhere at the time of the seminar. The seminars addressed latest research, identified research gaps, suggested new research agendas and explored potential policy relevance. This data set includes the proceedings of the 10 seminars of 2015-2016. The following themes were covered:
25 April 2015 - The role of government in an unequal world
26 August 2015 - The meaning of democracy in post-1994 rural South Africa: examples from research conducted in the Eastern Cape
27 August 2015 - The meaning of democracy in post-1994 rural South Africa: Policy implications of research conducted in the Eastern Cape and its impact on the Xhalanga District Court judgement
11 September 2015 - Terrorism, New Militarisms, and Human Rights - Transdisciplinary Approaches
14 September 2015 - Assessments of Social Inequality across Time and Countries
15 September 2015 - Attitudes Towards Social Inequality: Hopes, Fears and Global Prospects
16 November 2015 - The role of science councils in realizing national development goals
25 November 2015 - Exploring policy and practice for a gender responsive mining sector
27 November 2015 Bringing cognitive justice and restorative action in public policy making
17 March 2016 - A new social imaginary and subjectivities for a diverse, socially just world: some interventions
Abstract:
The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) Research Seminar Series is a collaboration between the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in terms of which DST has contracted the HSRC to implement HSD Research Seminars for a three-year period from 2014/15 to 2016/17. The seminar series is designed to
showcase research and knowledge production in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) which is generated by the National System of Innovation (NSI)
serve as vehicles for disseminating research evidence to wider and diverse audiences
operate as platforms for the sharing of local and international expertise and experience and
promote research and knowledge production in the SSH that benefits and enhances the NSI.
The seminars focused on HSRC projects that were underway in 2014-2015 and related work being done elsewhere at the time of the seminar. The seminars addressed latest research, identified research gaps, suggested new research agendas and explored potential policy rele...