Page 3 - Research & Innovation Report 2020

Contents

Impactful Research for Sustainable Futures .............................................................................................................................. 2
Instituting sustainability for the future ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Research to inform online and hybrid learning ......................................................................................................................... 7
Message from Directors of Research and Innovation ................................................................................................................ 9
Accelerating the transformation of internationalisation .......................................................................................................... 12
Leveraging digital transformation to advance early career researchers in Africa .................................................................... 14

HUMANITIES
Awakening the African canon .................................................................................................................................................. 16
Reconnecting African sociology to the mother ....................................................................................................................... 18
#Activist connexions in the CWGS .......................................................................................................................................... 20
Africa’s oceans offer the world cultural and heritage riches .................................................................................................... 22
Exploring the music of the Khoisan ........................................................................................................................................ 25
isiXhosa students publish poetry anthology .......................................................................................................................... 27
Shifting how we think about gender power ............................................................................................................................ 31
SCIENCE
First of its kind in Africa ........................................................................................................................................................... 33
Novel research conceived at traffic light ................................................................................................................................. 36
Largest ever southern ocean seabird and marine mammal tracking data project ................................................................. 38
Sustaining our marine resources through spatial planning ..................................................................................................... 40
We have to shock people and governments into facing reality .............................................................................................. 43
Windows into life’s earliest habitat .......................................................................................................................................... 46
The smart city has many faces ................................................................................................................................................. 48
How day zero could have been prevented ............................................................................................................................. 50
A year on Marion Island .......................................................................................................................................................... 52
Garden Route Gateway is one of six selected nationally ........................................................................................................ 54
100 000 years ago humans were smart ................................................................................................................................... 56

BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES
At the core of the democratic township transition .................................................................................................................. 59
The transgenerational African family business ....................................................................................................................... 62
Addressing the digital gap in Africa ........................................................................................................................................ 64
Blue economy in need of reassessment ................................................................................................................................. 66
EDUCATION
H♥PES – the community school as a beacon of hope ............................................................................................................. 68
Indigenous knowledge in the teacher education curriculum .................................................................................................. 72
Teaching Grade 1–3 learners maths in isiXhosa ...................................................................................................................... 74
ENGINEERING, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Towards a green transport strategy for SA .............................................................................................................................. 76
The most ancient sites along the Eastern Cape coast ............................................................................................................ 78
eSchools are the future but are they ready? ............................................................................................................................ 81
Building our own marine research assets ................................................................................................................................ 84
Sustainable low-income human settlements ........................................................................................................................... 86
Social distancing and the everyday life of the urban poor ...................................................................................................... 89
HEALTH SCIENCES
Primary healthcare is the ethos of our new Medical School .................................................................................................... 91
Improving water, sanitation and hygiene for healthier children and communities ................................................................. 94
From a small seed to an international network ....................................................................................................................... 96
Live among the people, learn from them ................................................................................................................................ 98

LAW
Steps to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination .............................................................................................................. 100
Africa’s first fisheries law enforcement academy turns five .................................................................................................... 102
Law of the sea NESP scholar ................................................................................................................................................. 104
To WhatsApp or not to WhatsApp ........................................................................................................................................ 106
Intersections between the Protection of Personal Information Act and the Cybercrimes Act .................................................. 108

AWARDS
Researchers of the year ......................................................................................................................................................... 110
Research excellence awards .................................................................................................................................................. 112
FACTS AND FIGURES
Research facts and figures 2020 ............................................................................................................................................ 113

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