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Research Report 2006 / 2007 UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL RESEARCH REPORT 2006 / 2007 RESEARCH REPORT UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL RESEARCH REPORT HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism Conservation African Literature Agribusiness Forestry HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism Conservation African Literature Agribusiness Forestry HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism ConservatiOn African Literature Agribusiness Forestry HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism Conservation African Literature Agribusiness Forestry HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism Conservation African Literature Agribusiness 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Literature AgribuSiness Forestry HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism Conservation African Literature Agribusiness Forestry HIV and AIDS Economic Development Water Quantum Technologies Food Security Race And Identity Cultural Heritage Tourism Conservation African Literature Agribusiness Forestry HIV UKZN REsearch Cover spread final.indd 1 7/16/09 3:02:07 PM Research Report 2006/07 Contents Message of the Vice-Chancellor & Principal 2 Professor MW Makgoba Message of the Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Knowledge Production and Partnerships 5 Professor JU Jacobs Message of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Corporate Relations 10 Professor TD Chetty Leading Research Centres 12 Strategic Initiatives 16 South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) 24 NRF-Rated Researchers 28 Promising Researchers 36 Doctoral Graduates 2006 40 Doctoral Graduates 2007 52 Fellows of the University 60 Most Prolific Researchers 66 Featured Researchers 78 Research Grants and Contracts 2006 84 Research Grants and Contracts 2007 91 Statutory and External Income 98 Department of Education (DOE) Accredited Publications 2006 103 Department of Education (DOE) Accredited Publications 2007 149 UKZN Research rod.indd 1 7/6/09 10:23:54 PM The Premier University of African Scholarship Professor MW Makgoba Vice-Chancellor and Principal 2006/07 RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORT 2 UKZN Research rod.indd 2 7/6/09 10:23:56 PM The strength of the research endeavour at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is a measure of its success as an institution. The quality of the work done by all its researchers, senior as well as upcoming and younger researchers, in the sciences as well as the wider humanities, gives one ample reason for believing in the future of UKZN as a major South African research university, and one whose larger research endeavour relates both to national research priorities Vice-Chancellor and Principal and international developments. Today’s fundamental investigations will provide tomorrow’s knowledge, and it is this that will determine the quality of life for the generations to come, and on which they can base their opportunities and hope for the future. Research at UKZN provides a unique insight into the ways in which the separate components of the University’s Mission are realised: what it means to be a truly South African University; how academic excellence is premised on innovative research and how this is benchmarked; how research can and should be informed by critical engagement with society; and how scholarship that has been constrained in the past by an oppressive history now needs to be driven by a transformative post- colonial, post-apartheid agenda that addresses the inequities of that past and its many legacies of disadvantage. I believe that in its real commitment to each of these aspects of the University’s Mission, research at UKZN continues to give meaning and substance to the University’s Vision of being a Premier University of African Scholarship. This is not simply modish rhetoric: African scholarship is what we do, and do best, at UKZN. At its most responsible, such scholarship is conscious of where it is located and explicitly positions itself in relation to the region and the communities that it is engaged with. It is grounded without being parochial, and brings its deep understanding of local conditions and indigenous epistemologies to bear on global issues. Conversely, its engagement with its immediate social and physical context is also approached through the lens of the best of international knowledge. African scholarship, as practised at UKZN and exemplified by our leading researchers, is both local and global. It is driven by local realities and observations and relates to the challenges we face as a society. It includes among its criteria for excellence those of relevance and benefits for the communities it serves, and it operates in an academic climate of unqualified freedom of inquiry and freedom to publish. 2006/07 RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORT Professor MW Makgoba 3 Vice-Chancellor and Principal UKZN Research rod.indd 3 7/16/09 12:11:51 PM 2006/07 RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORT 4 UKZN Research rod.indd 4 7/6/09 10:24:00 PM Pre-eminence in Research Professor J U Jacobs In 2006/2007 the University of KwaZulu-Natal continued to give meaning and substance to its definition of itself as a research-led university with a vision to be the Premier University of African Scholarship. The University is committed to the practice of scholarship that addresses the inequities of the
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