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6th RISG RESEARCH & INNOVATION BIENNIAL DIALOGUE |11 JUNE 2021 Theme: “Research & Innovation in the Post-CoVID Period” For further information visit: https://www.usaf.ac.za/usaf-events/ Organised by the Research and Innovation Strategy Group USAf National Directorate Programme OPENING AND WELCOME 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and opening remarks Prof Thoko Mayekiso Vice-Chancellor University of Mpumalanga & Chairperson of the RISG 9:10 - 9:30 Opening Address: Dr Phil Mjwara Exploring the STI Decadal Plan. Director-General Department of Science, Technology & Innovation SESSION 1: COVID 19 - IMPACT ON RESEARCH AND POSTGRADUATE STUDIES Session Chairperson: Prof Ahmed Bawa, CEO, Universities South Africa 9:30 -10:00 COVID 19: Its trajectory and future Professor Salim Abdool Karim impact on research and innovation. CAPRISA & University of KwaZulu-Natal 10:00 – 10:30 COVID 19: Global Lessons for Professor Crain Soudien Research and Innovation. University of Cape Town 10:30 – 10:45 BREAK 10:45 – 11:00 COVID 19: Lessons for the National Professor Rasigan Maharajh System of Innovation (NSI). Director (IERI) Tshwane University of Technology 11:00 – 11:15 COVID-19: The Future of Professor Anastassios Pouris Research Funding. University of Pretoria 11:15 – 11:30 COVID-19: Postgraduate funding. Professor Fulufhelo Nelwamondo Chief Executive Ocer National Research Foundation 11:30 – 11:45 COVID-19: International Partnerships. Professor Ylva Rodny-Gumede Executive Director University of Johannesburg 11:45 – 12:30 Q & A – Plenary discussions Session Chair Programme SESSION 2: ETHICAL RESEARCH AND INTEGRITY Session Chairperson: Prof Chris Nhlapo, Vice-Chancellor, Cape Peninsular University of Technology 13:30 – 14:00 Research ethics at a time Professor Jerome Singh of pandemic. World Health Organisation 14:00 – 14:20 Research ethics, integrity training Professor Stephanie Burton and communication during University of Pretoria pandemic times. 14:20 – 14:40 The NIHSS Experience: Research Professor Sarah Mosoetsa Integrity in the Social Sciences Chief Executive Ocer and Humanities. National Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences 14:40 – 15:00 Steps to address the strengthening Mr Mahlubi Mabizela of South Africa’s research Chief Director publication integrity. Department of Higher Education & Training 15:00 - 15:30 Discussion Session Chair 15:30 – 16:00 Closing remarks Professor Thoko Mayekiso Professor Ahmed Bawa BIOSKETCHES OF SPEAKERS Professor Thoko Mayekiso is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mpumalanga with eect from 1 November 2014. She obtained a BA, BA Honours, and MA in Psychology, from the University of Fort Hare. She furthered her studies at the Free University Berlin, in Germany, where she obtained her D. Phil (cum laude) in Psychology. She also holds a Higher Education Diploma (Post Graduate) from the University of South Africa. She is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. In her sterling academic career, Prof Mayekiso has held positions of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Head of Department, and Vice Dean at the then University of Transkei. She practiced as Honorary Clinical Fellow at the Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester and simultaneously served as a Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Medical Psychology, Leicester General Hospital in the United Kingdom. The South African University Vice-Chancellors Association and the American Council on Education awarded her a fellowship which was tenable at the University of Washington, Seattle. She then joined the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 2001 where she served as Head of School, Deputy Dean, and then Acting Executive Dean in the Faculty of Humanities. She proceeded to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 2007, as an Executive Dean in the Faculty of Arts, and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Engagement) in 2009. She is a C3 rated scientist by the National Research Foundation. Dr Philemon Mjwara holds a BSc, MSc and PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. His academic career includes serving as professor of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Pretoria, and Physics lectureships at the universities of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Fort Hare. Dr Mjwara has published and presented numerous papers on physics, technology analysis and technology foresight processes. His professional experience includes working as a director in the former Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, serving on the National Advisory Council On Innovation (NACI) and Group Executive for Research and Development and Strategic Human Capital Development at the Council for Scientic and Industrial Research (CSIR). As part of his many contributions, Dr Mjwara led a team that conducted the South African Technology Foresight project. The outputs of the project were presented to President Thabo Mbeki in 2000. His project approach led to a number of institutions from other parts of the world inviting the core team members to share their knowledge at conferences in Japan, Austria and Hungary. He was also asked to participate in the development of scenarios for South Africa for the years 2004 to 2014. This was run from the oce of the President. Dr Mjwara currently serves as the Director General of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), a position he has held since April 2006. His responsibilities include the development and implementation of South Africa’s science, technology and innovation policy. He also serves on various advisory councils and review boards, including the Board of the World of Platinum of South Africa and the Square Kilometre Array Organisation. BIOSKETCHES OF SPEAKERS Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS, is a South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist widely recognized for scientic contributions to HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University, New York. He is an Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University, Boston, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cornell University, New York, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. He is an Associate Member of The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. He previously served as President of the South African Medical Research Council and the Co-Chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19. He is currently serving as a Member of the Africa Task Force for Coronavirus and the Lancet Commission on COVID-19. Professor Abdool Karim is ranked among the world’s most highly cited scientists by Web of Science. He serves on the Boards of several journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Global Health, Lancet HIV and mBio. He is the Chair of the UNAIDS Scientic Expert Panel, WHO’s HIV Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee as well as the WHO TB-HIV Task Force. He is a member of the Scientic Advisory Board for Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His many awards include the African Union’s “Kwame Nkrumah Award” which is Africa’s most prestigious scientic award, the Kuwait Al-Sumait Award, the Canadian Gairdner Global Health Award and pinnacle awards from the African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science in South Africa, Royal Society of South Africa and the South African Medical Research Council. He is member of the US National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Microbiology and the Association of American Physicians. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Professor Crain Soudien was educated in the elds of education and African Studies at the Universities of Cape Town, South Africa and the State University of New York at Bualo. His PhD dissertation from Bualo was on South African youth identity. He is a former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, where he remains an emeritus professor in Education and African Studies and the former Chief Executive Ocer of the Human Sciences Research Council. He has an honorary appointment at the Nelson Mandela University. His publications in the areas of social dierence, culture, education policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture include four books, four edited collections and over 220 articles, reviews, reports, and Book chapters, including a 2017 publication entitled Nelson Mandela: Comparative Perspectives of his Signicance for Education. He has an A-rating in the South African research system. He is involved in a number of local, national and international social and cultural organisations and is chairperson of the Independent Examinations Board, former chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation, a former president of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, and has served as the chair of three Ministerial Committees of Enquiry, including the Ministerial Committee on Transformation in Higher Education and the Ministerial Committee to Evaluate Textbooks for Discrimination. He is a fellow of a number of local and international academies and serves on the boards of a number of cultural, heritage, education and civil society structures. BIOSKETCHES OF SPEAKERS Professor Rasigan Maharajh is concurrently Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology