STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH REPORT 2008 Editor: Senior Director (Research and Innovation) Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch 7602 i CONTENTS CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................. i FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY SCIENCE .................................................. 1 Agricultural Economics ................................................................................................. 1 Agronomy ........................................................................................................................ 1 Animal Sciences ............................................................................................................. 2 Conservation Ecology and Entomology ....................................................................... 4 Food Science ................................................................................................................... 7 Forest and Wood Science ............................................................................................... 8 Genetics ........................................................................................................................... 10 Horticultural Science ..................................................................................................... 12 Oenology and Viticulture .............................................................................................. 14 Plant Pathology ............................................................................................................... 15 Soil Science ..................................................................................................................... 16 Institute for Plant Biotechnology .................................................................................. 16 Institute for Wine Biotechnology .................................................................................. 16 FACULTY OF ARTS .................................................................................................................... 18 African Languages ......................................................................................................... 18 Afrikaans and Dutch ...................................................................................................... 18 Ancient Studies ............................................................................................................... 21 Drama .............................................................................................................................. 23 English ............................................................................................................................. 24 Geography and Environmental Studies ....................................................................... 26 History ............................................................................................................................. 27 Information Science ....................................................................................................... 28 Journalism ...................................................................................................................... 28 Linguistics ...................................................................................................................... 30 Modern Foreign Languages ........................................................................................... 31 Music ............................................................................................................................... 32 Philosophy ....................................................................................................................... 33 Political Science ............................................................................................................. 35 Psychology ...................................................................................................................... 37 Social Work ..................................................................................................................... 40 Sociology and Social Anthropology .............................................................................. 40 Visual Arts ...................................................................................................................... 42 Centre for Chinese Studies ............................................................................................ 45 Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision-Making ............................................. 46 Centre for Language and Speech Technology .............................................................. 46 Centre for Research on Science and Technology (CREST) ......................................... 47 FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE ................................................ 48 Accounting ...................................................................................................................... 48 Business Management ................................................................................................... 50 Economics ....................................................................................................................... 53 Graduate School of Business ......................................................................................... 54 Industrial Psychology .................................................................................................... 56 Logistics .......................................................................................................................... 57 School for Public Management and Planning .............................................................. 59 Statistics and Acturial Science ..................................................................................... 60 Institute for Futures Research ...................................................................................... 62 ii FACULTY OF EDUCATION ....................................................................................................... 64 Curriculum Studies ........................................................................................................ 64 Educational Psychology ................................................................................................. 66 Education Policy Studies ............................................................................................... 66 Sport Science ................................................................................................................... 66 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING .................................................................................................. 69 Civil Engineering ........................................................................................................... 69 Electric and Electronic Engineering ............................................................................ 71 Industrial Engineering .................................................................................................. 75 Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering .................................................................. 78 Process Engineering ...................................................................................................... 81 FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES .......................................................................................... 84 Anatomical Pathology .................................................................................................... 84 Anatomy and Histology ................................................................................................. 85 Anesthesiology and Critical Care ................................................................................. 86 Cardiothoracic Surgery ................................................................................................. 86 Chemical Pathology ....................................................................................................... 87 Community Health ......................................................................................................... 90 Dean’s Office (Tygerberg) .............................................................................................. 91 Dermatology .................................................................................................................... 91 Emergency Medicine ...................................................................................................... 92 Family Medicine and Primary Care ............................................................................. 92 Human Nutrition ............................................................................................................ 93 Internal Medicine ........................................................................................................... 94 Medical Microbiology .................................................................................................... 99 Medical Physiology ........................................................................................................ 100 Medical Virology ............................................................................................................ 102 Molecular Biology and Human Genetics .....................................................................