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Annual Research Report 2012 RU Research Layout COVER 2FA 11/20/13 1:02 PM Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Composite RU Research Introduction 11/20/13 6:28 PM Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K A publication of the Rhodes Research Office, compiled and edited by Jaine Roberts, Verna Connan, Thumeka Mantolo, Jill Macgregor and Patricia Jacob. Design & Layout: Sally Dore Research Office Director: Jaine Roberts [email protected] | [email protected] Tel: 27 - 46 - 603 8756/7572 www.ru.ac.za Cover Photo: An artists’s impression of the SKA Meerkat array in the Karoo. Credit: SKA South Africa Composite RU Research Introduction 11/20/13 6:28 PM Page 2 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Rhodes Research Report 2012 CONTENTS Foreword from Vice-Chancellor - Botany 51 Sociology 183 Dr Saleem Badat 02 Chemistry 55 Statistics 187 Introduction from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Computer Science 65 Zoology & Entomology 190 Research & Development - Dr Peter Clayton 04 Drama 71 Top Researchers: Acknowledgements 05 Economics 78 Affiliates, Institutes, Centres Education 83 PhD Graduates 06 and Units English 92 Albany Museum 200 The Vice-Chancellor’s English Language & Linguistics 94 Centre for Higher Education, Research, Research Awards Environmental Science 96 Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) 203 Fine Art 100 Cory Library for Humanities Research 207 Distinguished Senior Research Award Geography 104 The Institute for Environmental Professor Denis Hughes 09 Geology 109 Biotechnology (EBRU) 210 Book Award History 114 Electron Microscope Unit 213 Professor Catriona Macleod 12 Human Kinetics & Ergonomics 117 Institute for the Study of Ichthyology & Fisheries Science 120 English in Africa (ISEA) 215 Selected Research Areas Information Systems 125 Institute of Social & Economic The Year of the Chair 15 Journalism & Media Studies 128 Research (ISER) 220 Professor Oleg Smirnov and the SKA Chair 19 Law 136 Institute for Water Research (IWR) 225 Rhodes University Mathematics A Centre for Gravity 23 Management 140 Education Project (RUMEP) 228 Mathematics 144 The Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics 27 Public Service Accountability Monitor Music & Musicology 147 (PSAM) 230 A Firm Foundation for Education 31 International Library of African South African Institute for Aquatic Publications from the Vice-Chancellorate Music (ILAM) 150 Biodiversity (SAIAB) 233 & Administration 35 Pharmacy 153 Philosophy 158 Departments Physics & Electronics 161 Accounting 39 Political & International Studies 165 Anthropology 41 Psychology 170 Biochemistry, Microbiology and Rhodes Business School 176 Biotechnology 44 01 School of Languages 179 Composite RU Research Introduction 11/20/13 6:28 PM Page 3 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Rhodes Research Report 2012 One has to be a scholar of considerable significance for the biotechnology, health policy, media and citizenship, ethics, South African Journal of Science to carry your obituary, as fisheries, financial markets, cultural heritage, exploration it did for Rhodes University’s Chancellor, Professor Jakes geology, international studies, higher education as a field of Gerwel, who passed away in 2012 (Badat S. Jakes Gerwel scholarly study in its own right, and many others. (1946-2012): Humble intellectual, scholar and leader. S Afr J Sci. 2013;109(1/2), http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2013/a006). Of special mention must be the leadership role that Rhodes scientists played in South Africa’s competitive bid to host A role model for all, of ethical scholarship in the service of the bulk of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio-astronomy the public good, Gerwel valued knowledge and took project, a project that will raise the profile of African scholarship intellectual work very seriously. He was wont to point out to to new heights. Rhodes hosted a function in August 2012, the more action-oriented: “Good intellectual work entails attended by Minister Naledi Pandor and Director-General hard work of a special type. It is as difficult, if not more Phil Mjwara, to congratulate the SKA team and celebrate difficult, than organising door-to-door work, street committees the contribution to the success of the South African bid that and mass rallies”. individuals from our University had made. Gerwel was an exceptional, courageous and pioneering Professor Justin Jonas of our Physics Department was a South African intellectual, scholar, leader, activist and citizen key player in South Africa winning the bid to host the SKA, with a deep commitment to equity, social justice and which will bring considerable intellectual and economic democracy. Through a long and distinguished association benefit to the country. He has been seconded by Rhodes with the higher education sector, as an academic, Dean, University to the South African SKA/MeerKAT Project as the Dr Saleem Badat Vice-chancellor, Chairperson of the Committee of University Chief Scientist for the past 10 years. Much of the success Photo: George Hallett Principals in the early 1990s, Chancellor of Rhodes University, of the project was also due to the leadership of Dr Bernard and Chairperson of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, Gerwel Fanaroff, an honorary doctoral graduate of Rhodes University. the University. The five new chairs represented 8.3% of the was an outstanding champion of higher education. He leaves Rhodes doctoral graduate Dr Adrian Tiplady, Assistant Project new chairs awarded, and brought the total number of SARChI a powerful legacy. Scientist for the SKA, also made an important contribution chairs at Rhodes University to ten, or 7% of all chairs awarded to winning the SKA bid. thus far. This is a wonderful achievement for a university that Rhodes University followed the Gerwel example during this has less than one percent of South Africa’s university students period of review, producing research of quality and integrity In February 2012, the Minister of Science & Technology and 2.6% of all full-time academic staff. in fields such as the treatment of cancer, the biological control announced the results of the latest round of awards in the of invasive species, sustainable use of the natural world, South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) programme. Individual academics continued to receive widespread new studies in foundation phase education and mathematics Sixty (60) prestigious research chairs were awarded, in open recognition for their work. Particularly noteworthy were the education, the intellectualization of African languages, competition, across the South African university system. A accolades attracted by our two most established SARChI hydrology and water quality, social learning, international key criterion for the award of a research chair is that the host chairs, Distinguished Professors Tebello Nyokong and law, land reform, marine and coastal ecology, terrestrial university must provide a scholarly environment in which the Christopher McQuaid, who were both awarded A ratings by biodiversity, industrial and community pharmaceutics, river chair and scholarship can flourish. Rhodes fared exceptionally the National Research Foundation (NRF), and Professor Mike and estuarine management, human history and social identity, in this national initiative, with five chairs being awarded to Marais in the English department, who was awarded a B1 02 Composite RU Research Introduction 11/20/13 6:28 PM Page 4 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Rhodes Research Report 2012 rating - the highest rating in the Humanities Faculty at Rhodes A second round of projects under the Sandisa Imbewu (We University. Professor Nyokong was also awarded the gold are growing/multiplying our seeds) strategic seed fund was medal for 2012 of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI), launched in 2012, adding four more projects to the original and the 2012 Third World Academy of Sciences Medal for nine awarded the previous year. The new projects span the outstanding contributions to Science and Technology. The fields of Development Studies, Drug Delivery, Climate Change, international Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines and Linguistics, and are supported by the R12.5 million celebrated Professor Nyokong’s birthday in 2012 by publishing provided for this programme by the Rhodes University Council a special issue to honour her contributions to the field. and Board of Governors. In another multi-round competitive process, in which research proposals were invited from the The Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Senior Research Award Faculties of Commerce and Law, a new research focus area for 2012 was awarded to Professor Denis Hughes, Director was awarded in the Department of Economics led by of the Institute for Water Research, for the national and Professors Fraser and Snowball, and entitled Studies in international impact of his research over a sustained period. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics in the The recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award for 2012 Eastern Cape. was Professor Catriona Macleod of the Department of Psychology, for her book entitled “Adolescence”, pregnancy I extend my congratulations and thanks to all of our and abortion: Constructing the threat of degeneration, researchers, collaborators, funders, donors, and partners (Routledge, London and New York, 2011). who contributed to making 2012 a year in which research at Rhodes University again flourished. Your expertise, integrity, The national leadership role of the Centre for Higher Education dedication, rigour and generosity make Rhodes University Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) in higher the rich and distinctive intellectual space that it is. education teaching and learning was validated by it being awarded one million Euros by the Dutch agency Nuffic to host a national programme to improve doctoral supervision quality in universities across South Africa. New scholarly entities and programmes established at the Dr Saleem Badat university during 2012 included the Allan Gray Centre for Vice-Chancellor Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), established in the Philosophy department and funded by the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation; the Labour Market Research Unit (LMRU) in the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), funded by the Eastern Cape Government, and the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU), set up with a grant of US$ 950,000 from the Andrew W.
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