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The HSRC was established in 1968 as South Africa’s statutory research agency and has grown to become the largest dedicated research institute in the social sciences and humanities on the African continent, doing cutting-edge public research in areas that are crucial to development.
Our mandate is to inform the effective formulation and monitoring of government policy; to evaluate policy implementation; to stimulate public debate through the effective dissemination of research-based data and fact-based research results; to foster research collaboration; and to help build research capacity and infrastructure for the human sciences.
The Council conducts large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific research for public sector users, non-governmental organisations and international development agencies. Research activities and structures are closely aligned with South Africa’s national development priorities.
The HSRC’s integrated research programmes provide single points of entry – complete with a critical mass of researchers – for interdisciplinary and problem-orientated research in the following areas:
- Africa Institute of South Africa
- Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery
- Economic Performance and Development
- Education and Skills Development
- Human and Social Development
- Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation
- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB.
A cross-cutting entity, Research Use and Impact Assessment, seeks to extend and enhance the use and impact of scientific research from the HSRC and other sources of research; and to manage the HSRC’s relationships, reputation and brand.
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Legislation to control the private funding of political parties in South Africa is long overdue.
South Africa's smallholder farmers face major obstacles but being in groups can help them.
South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.
Governing parties and officials need to take note of the frustration being expressed by ordinary South Africans.
Corruption has become one of the biggest concerns for South Africans living in a province that has erupted in violence.
New South African research supports evidence that urbanisation has a positive impact on people's lives and must be managed appropriately for development.
South Africa should review its rural development strategy and land reform policy to win the fight against rising poverty.
South Africa should look towards inclusive growth to push back the growing levels of poverty within the population.
South Africans will not see the value that science and technology adds to their daily lives until there is more interest in areas of science.
Policies must seek to improve the manner in which the language of instruction is taught to learners who don't speak that language at home.
Research shows poorer black South Africans are disproportionately exposed to food-related advertising that promotes the consumption of fatty, unhealthy foods.
The history of artisanal training and employment in South Africa has been one of systematic social exclusion and inequality.
Many young South Africans struggle to get a job due to the high levels of unemployment. But access to information, which is influenced by race and class, increases the chances of getting employed.
Gay fathers often operate outside traditional gender roles and provide a model of "conscious parenting" that could offer some important lessons to heterosexual partnerships.
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Senior Research Manager and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Chief Research Specialist: HSRC's Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, Human Sciences Research Council
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Chief Researcher at the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, Human Sciences Research Council
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Doctor, Human Sciences Research Council
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Executive Director, HSRC, Human Sciences Research Council
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Chief Research Manager, Human Sciences Research Council
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Research Specialist: Human Sciences Research Council, Human Sciences Research Council
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Deputy Executive Director in Economic Development and Professor of Social Anthropology, Human Sciences Research Council
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Research director, Human Sciences Research Council
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Research Specialist in the Economic Performance and Development , Human Sciences Research Council
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Senior Research Project Manager and Rural Sociologist, Economic Performance and Development, Human Sciences Research Council
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Chief Research Specialist, Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery, Human Sciences Research Council
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