Annual Report2011

CSSR

“Promoting evidence-based research and public policy”

The Centre for Social Science Research TheCentreforSocialScienceResearch(CSSR)isaninterdisciplinaryresearchcentreattheUniversityofCape Towndedicatedtoconductingandbuildingcapacityforsystematic,policy-relevantsocialscienceresearchin SouthAfrica,theregion,andacrossAfrica.

Methodologically,CSSRresearch isempirical,butproblem-driven.Whileweutilisebothquantitativeand qualitative strategies of data collection, our work is based on systematic research designs with clearconceptualisationofvariablesand transparent rules foroperationalisingvariables, selectingcases, andcollectingandanalysingdataanalysis(incontrasttoadhocfactcollectionornarrativedescription).Afterareasonableperiod,collecteddataareturnedintopublicaccessdatasetsanddepositedwiththeDataFirstResourceCentre.

CSSR projects are usually team-oriented, bringing togethermultiple local and international researchers, and offering post-graduatestudentssignificantopportunitiesforhands-ontrainingbyinvolvingtheminallstagesofprojects.ResearchfindingsarepresentedanddiscussedatregularweeklyseminarsandpublishedasCSSRWorkingPapers.

CSSR DirectorateThe CSSR Directorate is the administrative hub for the units making up the CSSR. It manages the finances, edits and producesworkingpapers,organisesmeetings,andprovidesanorganisationalfocalpointfortheCSSR.During2011,JeremySeekingswastheCSSRDirector.TheadministrativeteamiscomposedofKathyForbes(AdministrativeOfficer),LibbiDownes(FinanceOfficer),MariusCoqui(AssistantFinanceOfficer),NcedekaMbune(ReceptionandAdministration),andJessicaKing(PublicationsEditor).

CSSR Advisory Board

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Photographs:Cover (clockwise from top left):ParticipantsatanMMCPworkshop in the CSSR; ElenaMoore organizing fieldworkfortheSuper-DiversitySurvey,EldoradoPark,Johannesburg;Participants at theALP Zimbabwe introductory workshop;OneofthefinishedbodymapsfromtheASRU/Kheth’Impilobodymappingproject.

Left:Theadmin team(fromleft toright);NcedekaMbune,MariusCoqui,KathyForbes,andLibbiDownes.

Chairperson:ProfPEnsor,DeanofHumanitiesProfJMuller,DeputyDeanofHumanities(Research)ProfJSeekings,DirectoroftheCSSRandSSUProfRMattes,DirectorofDARUProfMMorris,DirectorofPRISMProfNNattrass,DirectorofASRU

ProfASeegers,DepartmentofPoliticalStudiesA/ProfDCooper,DepartmentofSociologyA/ProfFBoonzaier,DepartmentofPsychologyA/ProfMWittenberg,SchoolofEconomicsA/ProfIWoolard,SALDRUA/ProfEvanderSpuy,DepartmentofCriminology

AndrewMellonFoundationCapeAghulasTourismBureau(CATB)CentreforHigherEducationTransformation(CHET)EmbassyofthePeoplesRepublicofChina,PretoriaEuropeanUnionFordFoundationGhanaCentreforDemocraticDevelopmentHealth Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), KwaZulu-Natal(TheWilliamandFlora)HewlettFoundationInternationalDevelopmentResearchCentre(IDRC)

NationalResearchFoundation(SA)OpenSocietyFoundationforSouthAfrica(OSF)RockefellerBrothersFundSouth Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development(SANPAD)SwedishInternationalDevelopmentAgency(SIDA)UniversityofNairobiUniversityResearchCommittee,UCTVice-ChancellorStrategicfund,UCTWorldBank

WewouldliketothankthosewhohavecontributedfinanciallyandinmanyotherwaystotheCSSR

Funders and Donors

ProfessorJeremySeekings

ThisyearmarkedthetenthanniversaryoftheestablishmentoftheCSSR,andprovidedanopportunity forustoreflectonwhathaschanged–andwhathasnotchanged–inthesetenyears.Thereportsonthe constituent units within the CSSR reveal continuing achievements in terms of graduate training, the collection of new data, the publication and dissemination of research, engagement with public policy-making, and outreach programmes. Yet we are also aware that the culture and practice of teaching and research in systematic social science at UCT has changed completely. Skills in quantitativedataanalysisremainscarceoutsideofeconomics,anduntilthisyeartheworkoftheCSSR hasreliedheavilyonitsthreeremainingfoundingmembers(NicoliNattrass,RobertMattesandJeremy Seekings).

The expansion of the CSSR ProbablythemoststrikingandimportantchangetotheCSSRduring2011wastheappointmentofnew personnel, with funding from the UCT Vice-Chancellor’s Fund and our existing grant from theMellon Foundation. Dr Pedro Wolf took up a joint appointment between the CSSR and the Psychology Department earlierthisyear.AssociateProfessorRajenGovendertookupahalf-timeappointmentintheCSSRandSociologyDepartmentonthe1stJuly.DrElenaMoorewasappointedasaJuniorResearchFellowintheCSSR,withclosetiestotheSociologyDepartment.DrsWolfandGovenderteachgraduatecoursesinquantitativesocialscienceinthePsychology,PoliticalStudiesandSociologydepartments,andintheshortextra-curricularcoursesthattheCSSRisoffering.Theyalsoadvisestudentsandresearchersonresearchdesignanddataanalysis.TheseappointmentshavesubstantiallyenhancedthecapacityoftheCSSRtoworkwithteachingdepartmentsinpreparingandguidingstudentsandjuniorresearchersinsystematic,socialscientificresearch,andtoconductinnovativeandcriticalresearchusingdiversemethodologies.DrMooremanagedasurveyondiversityinJohannesburgandCapeTown(forwhichtheCSSRprovidedsupporttoProfessorCrankshawinSociology,andtheMaxPlanckInstitute),andassistedwithteachingandsupervisingstudentsinSociology.

In addition, the CSSR is working with UCT’s DataFirst (originally part of the CSSR) in expanding dedicated support in theanalysis of survey data for postgraduate students and researchers in the Social Sciences. DataFirst appointed CSSR-based PhDstudent and researcher Eduard Grebe to a part-time position, physically located in the CSSR. Ed’s responsibilities include promotingthe analysis of survey data available through DataFirst, including supporting students who are doing this.Although DataFirst physicallyrelocated (with theSchoolofEconomics) toUCT’smiddle campus,online access todatasetsplus thepresenceofEd in theCSSRmeansthattheresourcesofDataFirstcontinuetobeavailabletostudentsonUCT’suppercampus.EdalsooverseestheCSSR’swebsite(www.cssr.uct.ac.za),whichhere-designed.

Management and administrationIsucceededMikeMorrisasDirectoroftheCSSRinFebruary.Myappointmentisforaperiodofthreeandahalfyears,untilAugust2014.BobMatteskindlyservedasActingDirectorwhilstIwasintheUSAforthreeandahalfmonthslateintheyear.WeareallverygratefultoMikeandBobfortheirsterlingcontributionstorunningtheCSSR.

Earlierthisyear,theManagementCommitteewasexpandedtoincludeDrsElenaMoore,BeatriceConradie,RebeccaHodes,PedroWolfandRajenGovender,inadditiontoProfessorsMattes,Morris,Nattrassandmyself.WearegratefultoallofthesescholarsforassumingimportantrolesintheCSSR.

The administration of the CSSR has continued to expand.When the CSSR was first established, the administration comprised a singleadministrativeofficerwhoperformedbothfinancialandnon-financialadministration,andlookedafterthepublicationofourWorkingPapers.Tenyearslater,ourofficecomprisesafull-timefinancialadministrator(MariusCoqui),onefull-timeandonehalf-timegeneraladministrators(KathyForbesandNcedekaMbune),ahalf-timeprogrammemanager(LibbiDownes)andapart-timepublicationsmanager(JessicaKing).Inaddition,variousprojectsaremanagedbyspecialistadministrators.Forexample,LizWelshmanagestheAfricanLegislaturesProjectinDARU,andBeckyMaughan-BrownmanagesASRU’soutreachprogramme.

The CSSR secured and refurbished some additional office space on the 4th floor of the Leslie Social Science building, allowing us toaccommodateNicoliNattrassandBeatriceConradie,whoseresearchcontinuestobebasedintheCSSReventhoughtheSchoolofEconomicsrelocatedtomiddlecampus.PRISMmovedintothenewSchoolofEconomicsbuilding,apartfromtherestoftheCSSR.

Director’s Report

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Student achievementsThe CSSR continues to invest heavily in capacity-building through providing scholarships to postgraduate students. The year saw anextraordinarynumberofourgraduatestudentscompletingtheirdegrees:ClaireAllan,BenjaminStanwix,MatthewMacDevette,EricaPenfold,AlexandraSearle,MichelleRomo,KaiThaler,GarikayiChemhaka,MavourneenStreet,RutendoMurambiwa,NixonChisonga,MariaGarciaCorbeira,NasiphiMoya,DustinKramer,SamanthaRichmond,DangaliraMughogo,JennSchwendemanandRutendoMurambiwa.Someofthesestudentsperformedverystrongly.KaiThalerreceivedadistinctionforhisMastersthesis(byresearchonly)onviolenceincontemporaryCapeTown.MichelleRomoandEricaPenfoldbothgotdistinctionsfortheirmastersdegrees(bycourseworkanddissertation).DustinKramergotoutstandingmarks.AlexandraSearlegotadistinctionforherdissertation.

AnumberofourMastersandPhDstudentssecuredscholarshipsandopportunitiestospendsometimeabroad.EdGrebereturnedfromayearinYaleonaFoxScholarship.SingumbeMuyeba,afterattendingaSummerSchoolattheUniversityofAmsterdaminJuly,startedhisyearatYaleonaFoxScholarship.RalphSsebegalawasinvitedtospendasemesterattheUniversityofMassachusettsinAmherst,butunfortunatelydidnotreceiveaUSvisaintime.Fittingly,hewillspendmostofnextyearataJapaneseuniversity.DuncanPietersespentasemesteratBrown.MatthewMacDevette,DustinKramerandMariaGarciaCorbeiraallstartednewMastersdegreesinOxfordinOctober.BethValewonaRhodesScholarshiptoOxfordfor2012.

Looking ahead OneoftheCSSR’sprioritiesoverthenextfewyearsistobroadenourteachingthroughofferingshortcourses,includinginformalSummer(orWinter)Schools.BuildingsocialsciencesinSouthAfrica–andAfricamorebroadly–requiresreachingbeyondtheregularterm-timecoursesofferedthroughUCT’steachingdepartments,asDARUhasalreadyshowninpreviousyears’Afrobarometersummerschools.TheappointmentsofDrsWolfandGovenderhaveallowedustomoveforwardwiththeseplans.InNovemberthey,withEdGrebe,ranashortcourseonanalysingdata from the Institute for Justice andReconciliation’s “SouthAfricanReconciliationBarometer” surveys.A longer course on researchingviolencewillberuninFebruary2012.WeintendtointroducemoreformalSummerSchoolofferingsinJanuary2013.

Shortcourseswillallow theCSSRto reachwidercirclesof studentsand researchers,aswellas toofferawider rangeof training toUCTstudents.Theyarenosubstitute,however,forstrengtheningthecurriculainUCT’svariousdepartments.WhilsttheCSSRcannotchupmajorachievementsintermsofmostofourobjectives,weshouldnotignoretheambivalencetowardsquantitativedataanalysisthatremainswide-spreadinsomeofUCT’ssocialsciencedepartments.StrengtheningfurtherrelationsbetweentheCSSRandthesedepartmentsmustremainapriorityfortheCSSRinthecomingyear.

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Photographs:Left: NcedekaMbune completed a qualification in EventSupportatCapePeninsulaUniversityofTechnology.

Above: RajenGovanderandBobMattesattheannualCSSRend-of-yearlunch.

Right:JessicaKinggraduatedcumlaudefromStellenboschUniversity with an Honours degree in EnglishLiterature.

Director:JeremySeekings

Social Surveys Unit

Researchers:

ElenaMoore(diversityinSouthAfrica)JennSchwendeman(genderandeducation)RutendoMurambiwa(xenophobia)KaiThaler(violence)NixonChisonga(accesstohousing)SingumbeMuyeba(thevalueofhousingtenure inCapeTownandLusaka)RalphSsebagala(consumercredit)GarethOlds(labourmarkets)BeatriceConradie(biodiversity)KenJubber(cultureconstruction)TalisaMcMillanNasiphiMoyaThobaniNcapai(fieldwork)BulelwaNokwe(fieldwork)Bronwyn Nortje (distributive justice and the poor)LingxiuZhang(clothingindustry)ThembiLuckett(CAPS)

The SSU conducts research into a range of social, political and economic topics, aswellas focusingcriticallyon themethodologiesandethicsof social science research.Weattachparticularimportancetothecombinationofqualitativeandquantitativedata.OureclecticapproachtomethodologyanddataisevidentinourongoingresearchintoeverydayviolenceincontemporaryCapeTown.Aseriesofin-depthinterviewshavebeenconductedoverseveralyearsintohowpeopleexperienceandunderstandviolence,andsome standardized questionswere included in the fifthwave of theCapeArea PanelStudy(CAPS)in2009.KaiThalerandJeremySeekingshavebeenanalyzingthesedatato explore howpeople participate in violencenot only as perpetrators or victims, butalso as bystanderswhose normative endorsement of violence plays an important roleinentrenchingviolenceinsomanyaspectsofeverydaylife.KaiThalercompletedhisMasters degree (by research only) and achieved a distinction. Several chapters of histhesis were published as Working Papers. Kai and Jeremy are collaborating on amonograph on everyday violence in post-apartheid South Africa, which pays closeattention to the role of norms. RutendoMurambiwa also combined quantitative andqualitativedata forherMastersmini-dissertationonxenophobia.ThroughJeremy, theCSSRplayedaroleinUCT’sbroaderSafetyandViolenceInitiative(SAVI),whichlinksresearchersfromdiversedisciplinesandfaculties.

Mixing quantitative and qualitative research was evident also in continuing researchintothechangingworldoffamily,kinshipandhousehold-makinginSouthAfrica.ElenaMoorebroughtintotheCSSRexpertiseonthesociologyofthefamilyinEurope,andquicklysoughttoapplythistotheSouthAfricancontext.TogetherwithJeremySeekings,shesupervisedundergraduateresearchprojectsonfamiliesintheSociologyDepartment,andinmid-yearsheandJeremyworkedwithvisitingstudentsfromYaleonhowwomenespeciallyexperience theabsenceofmen in theirhouseholds,andhowtheynegotiatethearrivalofnewmalepartnersintohouseholds.NixonChisongacompletedhisMastersmini-dissertationonhowyoungpeopleaccesshousing,includingthroughkinship,usingCAPSdata.

WhilstmostoftheSSU’sresearchhasconcentratedonCapeTown,BeatriceConradiecontinues to conducther research in rural areasof theBolandandSouthernCape. Inaddition,NicoliNattrass,JeremySeekingsandtwovisitingstudentsfromYaleinitiatednewresearchintolow-wagemanufacturingemploymentinSouthernAfrica.ThisentailedresearchtripstoNewcastleinKwaZulu-NatalandLesotho.Jeremyalsowroteapreliminaryreport on young people’s entry into the labour market in SouthAfrica, using CAPSandotherdata.Morebroadly,NicoliandJeremyareexpandingtheCSSR’sinterestsin‘sustainablesocieties’,andmorespecificallywhatmakessustainabilitypossibleintermsofboththedistributionofeconomicandsocialresources(includingemployment)andtheinteractionsbetweenhumansocietiesandthenaturalenvironment.

JeremySeekingsalsocontinuedresearchoncomparativeurbansociologyandpolitics,thehistoryandpoliticsofsocialpolicy-making,andthepoliticaleconomyofdistributionandredistribution.Jeremyattendedconferences,presentedseminarsorgavelecturesinDelhi (twice),Tokyo,Osaka,Amsterdam,Manchester,Bristol,Brighton,NewHaven,StellenboschandCapeTown.

Photographs:

Right: ThobaniNcapaiappearedintheCapeTimesarticle‘Capecelebratesmilestoneof100000onARVs’on27July.

Far Right: Kai Thaler achieved a distinction for his Mastersthesis on ‘Violence and society in post-apartheidCapeTown’.

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Director:NicoliNattrass

AIDS and Society Research Unit (AIDS conspiracy beliefs, fighting AIDS denialism)

Deputy Director Rebecca Hodes (HIV in the media, social history ofreproductivehealthandHIV)

Other Researchers

Celeste Coetzee (socio-economic impact of HAART);EduardGrebe(AIDSactivismandleadership);FidelisHove(AIDS in Zimbabwe); Catherine Jury (AIDS and familystructure);MatthewMacDevette(AIDSfunding);JacquileneMarshall(sexualbehaviour);RebeccaMaughan-Brown(healthpromotionandeducation);TafaraNgwaru(genderandHIV);Duncan Pieterse (AIDS and the labourmarket);AnnabelleWienand (photographic representation of HIV/AIDS inAfrica); BethVale (community careworkers); JoThobekaWreford(traditionalhealers).

Visiting Researchers

NathanGeffen (access toHIV treatment),ClaraRubincam(AIDSconspiracybeliefs).

ASRU is an inter-disciplinary unit that conducts quantitative and qualitativesocialscienceresearchonvariousaspectsofAIDSpolicyandthesocio-economicdimensionsoflivingwithHIV.Researchactivitiesrangefromdetailedlocallevelanalysis(ASRUhasseveralsurveysofpeoplelivingwithAIDSinCapeTown)tointernationalstudiesofAIDSfunding.

In2010,weinitiatedanewoutreachinitiativeintheformofacollaborativeactionresearch project with Kheth’Impilo (an NGO which has partnered with SouthAfrican government to provide antiretroviral treatment in four provinces).Keth’Impilo trains and employs a cohort of over a thousand community healthworkerswhoassistpeoplelivingwithHIVonmanylevels.Thisyear,undertheleadershipofRebeccaMaughan-Brown,ASRUcollaboratedwithKheth’Impilotodeveloptrainingmaterials(designedtomeettheaccreditationrequirementsoftheNationalQualificationsFramework)forthesecommunityhealthworkers.

ASRUresearchersalsowriteforarangeofwebsites,includingQuackdown(whichholdsadatabaseofuntestedmedicalclaims),AIDSTruth(whichcombatsAIDSdenialism and provides science-based information about HIV transmission andtreatment),andAIDSMap(anonlineinformationhubforpeoplelivingwithHIV).

Photographs:

Top Right: In the ASRU/Kheth’Impilo bodymapping project,participants listed the triumphs and difficulties of theirwork ingroupdiscussion,and thenmarked thestoriesoftheseclientinteractionsinthespacebetweenthe“self”and“client”bodies.

Bottom Right:(From left) Rebecca Maughan-Brown, ThembakaziRolihlala, Beth Vale and Barbara Matasane, workingtogetheronthebody-mappingprojectattheKheth’ImpiloclinicinBloekombos

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Highlights of 2011ASRU and Kheth’Impilo developed and piloted a new body mappingtool toprovide social support for socialworkers and communityhealthadvocatesworkingforKheth’Impilo.NicoliNattrassparticipatedintheCopenhagenConsensusprojectonrank-ingHIV-relatedspendingobjectives(foroutputsofthisprojectsee:http://www.rethinkhiv.com/)andwasinvitedbyRobertGallotogiveakeynoteaddress(aboutfightingAIDSdenialism)attheInstituteforHumanVirol-ogyConferenceinBaltimore.

ASRU co-organised (with the Health, Economics and HIV/AIDSResearch Division at UKZN) two panel discussions at the HIV in theHumanitiesandSocialSciencesConferenceinDurban,June2011.Thesewere: ‘Health horror stories and ‘positive’ portrayals: new research onHIV,TBandthebodyintheSouthAfricanmedia’;and‘NewdirectionsinresearchongenderandHIV/AIDSinsouthernAfrica’.

Catherine Jury presented a poster at the Durban International AIDSconferenceonher researchon the roleofmothers inprovidingcare forHIV-positivepeople.

Nicoli Nattrass, Eduard Grebe and Clara Rubincam further devel-opedASRU’s research intoAIDS conspiracy beliefs, with Eduard andNicolipublishingapaper inAIDSandBehaviourandNicoli andClarapresenting papers at the HIV in the Humanities and Social SciencesConferenceinDurban,June2011.

RebeccaHodesco-ordinatedtheworkdonebyMédecinsSansFrontières(MSF) to reviewthecurrentNationalStrategicPlanonHIVandAIDS,TuberculosisandSexuallyTransmittedInfections(theNSP,2007-2011),andtoassistwiththedraftingofthenextNSP.

BethVale,aMaster’sstudentinASRU,wonaRhodesScholarship.BethwillbeginaD.PhilinSocialInterventionatOxfordUniversityinOctober2012.HerdoctoralthesiswillbeaqualitativestudyexploringhowAIDS-affectedfamilies respond toprimaryhealthcareservices,withanaimtoinformsocialpolicyandinterventioninSouthAfrica.

Rebecca Hodes and Eduard Grebe wrote policy papers for theDevelopmental Leadership Program. These focused on gender politicsandSouthAfrica’sSexualOffencesAct,andonethicsandintegrityinthepolitics of developmental leadership. Rebecca presented her paper to agroupofpolicy-makersanddonors,includingrepresentativesofAUSAid,GIZ,Oxfam,TheAsiaFoundation andTransparency International, at ameetingofdevelopmentalpartnersinFrankfurt(March,2011).

NathanGeffen,aResearchAssociateinASRU,hasco-ordinatedworkontheQuackdownandTBOnlinewebsiteswhichwentlivein2011.Geffenalso organised a civil society meeting on priorities for treating andpreventingTB,andhaswrittenextensivelyabouttheoptimaltimetostartART(asinformedbyhisparticipationonthecommunityadvisoryboardfor the START trial). Geffen has also written policy briefs on variousissuesrelatedtoHIV,includingcircumcision,andservedonthescientificcommitteefortheOrangeFarmcircumcisionresearchproject.

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Photographs:

Above:(Fromleft)NicoliNattrass,ElizabethMills,RebeccaHodes,CatherineJury,BethValeandGemmaOberthat theHIVintheHumanitiesandSocialScienceConference,Durban(June2011)

Right:OneofthefinishedbodymapsfromtheASRU/Kheth’Impilobodymap-pingproject.

Director:RobertMattes

Democracy in Africa Unit

Project Managers: PerStrand(AIDS,DemocracyandGovernanceProject)ElizabethWelsh(AfricanLegislatureProject)LaurenParemoer(OpenSocietyMonitoringIndex)

Ph. D. Scholars: CarlosShenga

Honours / MA Scholars: ChilesheChilesheDustinKramerRorisangLekalakeMoletsaneMonyakeNasiphiMoyaTiffanyMugoEricaPenfoldSamanthaRichmondLaraSierra-RubiaLaurenSmithDadisaiTaderera

Research FellowsRobertCameron,DeptofPoliticalStudies,UCT

Visiting Research Fellows: JoelBarkan(UniversityofIowa/CentreforStrategicand InternationalStudies)DavidDenemark(UniversityofWesternAustralia)ConnieFlanagan(PennsylvaniaStateUniversity)TimHughes(IndependentConsultant)MichelleEsau(UniversityofWesternCape)RichardNiemi(UniversityofRochester)Collette Schulz-Herzenberg (Institute for Security Studies)ShaheenMozaffar(BridgewaterStateUniversity)KimberlySmiddy(IndependentConsultant)ShanaWarren(NewYorkUniversity)

Junior Visiting FellowsVerenaKroth(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPolitical Science)GeoffreyMacDonald(UniversityofDenver)

TheDemocracyinAfricaResearchUnitstrengthensempiricalsocialscienceresearchcapacityinAfricabysupportingandconductingsystematicresearchonkeyaspectsofthesurvivalandqualityofdemocracyinSouthAfricaandtherestofthecontinent.

In 2011, we continued our research and training activities in four broad areas:publicopinion,votingandelections,politicalinstitutions,woundupourprograminthepolitical dynamicsofHIV/AIDS, andbeganplanninganew initiative inSouthAfricancivic education. Ourworkwas supportedby theAfrobarometer, theOpenSocietyFoundationofSouthAfrica,theRockefellerBrothersFoundation(RBF),theSouthAfricanNationalResearchFoundation, theSwedishAgencyfor InternationalDevelopment (SIDA), the UCT University Research Committee, the UCT Vice-Chancellor’sFund,andtheWorldBank.

BobMattes, theDirector, spent the last half of 2010 and the first half of 2011 onsabbatical, first as aSTIASFellow at the newStellenbosch Institute forAdvancedStudies, and then as Visiting Scholar at theWeatherhead Center for InternationalAffairsatHarvardUniversity.

DARU ProjectsAfrican Legislatures Project ALP completed country studies in Benin, Burkina Faso,Mali, Lesotho and SouthAfrica,continueditsworkinSenegalandneartheendoftheyearbegannewstudiesinBotswanaandZimbabwe.Eachstudyentailedbothstructuredsurveysofrepresentativesamples of MPs and in-depth interviews of legislative officers.At mid year, BobMattes,JoelBarkanandShaheenMozaffarpresentedresultsfromthefirst11countrystudiestoseveralunitsattheWorldBank.

And research associatesTimHughes andMichelle Esaumade a joint presentationonresultsoftheSouthAfricacountrystudytotheSouthAfricanNationalAssemblyCommitteeofCommittees,OversightandICTinJune2011.

At UCT, Project Manager Liz Welsh worked with DARU researchers DustinKramer, Rorisang Lekalake, Nasiphi Moya, Moletsane Monyake, Tiffany Mugo,EricaPenfold,andDadisaiTaderera,aswellasVisitingResearchAssociatesShanaWarren,TimHughes,ShaheenMozaffar,andJoelBarkan.

FormerDARUresearcherAlexandraSearlefinishedherMAdissertationbasedondatacollectedbyALP.

Afrobarometer Capacity-Building ProjectMattes led the committee that wrote the new questionnaire for Round 5 of theAfrobarometer, and also worked with Afrobarometer personnel to get the 2011AfrobarometerSouthAfricasurveyintofield.MattesalsopresentedAfrobarometerresultsatvariousvenuesrangingfromtheStellenboschInstituteforAdvancedStudies,theWorldBank,toJainUniversityinBangaloreIndia.

FormerDARUresearchersDangaliraMughoghoandMichelleRomofinishedMastersdissertations based onAfrobarometer data (Romo receiving a distinction!), as didKeneilweMpuleandRyanAnderson.

Civic Education and DemocracyMattes finished a study examining the attitudes toward democracy of those SouthAfricanswhohavecomeofagesince1996,andconcludedthatthe“BornFrees”areactuallylessdemocraticthanolderSouthAfricans.Basedonthis,DARUhasreceivedagrantfromtheNRFtoconductastudyin2012ofhighschoolstudents,teachers,andparentsinordertoassesstheimpactofcurriculum,andothercompetingfactorssuchasteachers,peers,media,familyandcommunitiesinshapingwhatyoungSouthAfricansthinkaboutapartheid,democracy,citizenshipandxenophobia.Attheendoftheyear,DARUhostedaworkshoptoplanthevariouselementsofthe2012study.

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Far Right: The speakers at the PERC seminar ofpostgraduate teaching in Africa; Prof Di McIntyre,AssocProfMillsSoko,andProfRobertMattes.

AIDS, Democracy and GovernanceADGcontinueditsresearchonpolitical leadershiponAIDS,ledbyPerStrandandfundedbySIDA.In2011itmadeanoralpresentationattheSAHARAConferenceinPortElizabethandalsopresentedapaperattheSAHARA Conference and another at the ICASA Conference inAddisAbaba.

ItalsocontributedtoexpertconsultationstotheAdvisoryGroupfortheEuropeanCommission forDiseaseControl’s project on the response toHIV/AIDS by countries in Europe andCentralAsia, and to the Expertgroup for the Enabling Environment tracking of the UNGASS reviewprocess.ADGispartoftheAdvisoryCommitteetotheUNAIDSandIASproject ‘ThinkingPoliticallyaboutHIV’and tookpart in theUNAIDS/IASworkshopfortheprojectinBangkokinApril2011.Sincethen,Strandhasdevelopedaplanforhowtheprojectcanbeimplementedacrosssub-SaharanAfrica,whichissettostartinearly2012.

ADGalsodevelopedandpresentedaframeworktoaSeptemberworkshopin New York organized by UN WOMEN, WHO and USAID todevelop a harmonized set of indicators on gender equality in theAIDSresponse that countries can use in their national responses to HIV andAIDS.Theframeworkwasultimatelyadoptedbytheseorganizationstostructuretheirproject.

During 2011, ADG developed a research agenda on ‘Parliamentaryleadership onHIV andAIDS’ in collaborationwith theHIV andAIDSprogramme at the SADC Parliamentary Forum. A questionnaire wasdeveloped through a participatory process and it was piloted inSeptember2011.TheresultingdatabaseandtheanalysisitenableswillbeusedtostrengthensuchleadershipinSADC.SADCPFadoptedtheprojectinitsPlenaryMeetinginNovember2011andisinterestedindevelopingitintoagenericmodelforresearch,monitoringandevaluationacrossallitsprogrammes.Afinalreporton‘politicalleadershiponHIVandAIDS’,theprojectfundedbySIDA,willbepresentedtoSIDAin2012.

On invitation from UNAIDS, ADG proposed a text on ‘politicalaccountabilityintheAIDSresponse’forconsiderationinthedraftingofthe2011UNDeclarationonHIVandAIDS.

ADG has also continued research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on thequalityofdemocracyandgovernance,supportedbytheRockefellerBrothersFundanddoneincollaborationwithUCTProfessorRobertCameron.

Comparative National Elections ProjectDARU hosted the 2011 CNEP conference in August, where CNEPresearchteamsputthefinishingtouchesonchaptersthatwillformpartofisnexteditedvolume.

Open Society Monitoring Index Followinglastyear’sverysuccessfullaunchofthefirstroundoftheOpenSociety Monitoring Index, the DARU team led by Lauren Paramoer,withthesupportofHollyMcGurk,DARUbeganpreparationofthenextroundoftheOSMI,workingwithvariousoutsideresearcherstocompileanarrative report covering the areas of access to information, elections,parliament, law and order, and public finance, and also designed andcarriedastudyofpublicexperiencesacrosstheseareas.

AtUCT,ProjectManagerLaurenParemoerworkedwithDARUresearcherHollyMcGurk, as well asVisiting ResearchAssociates CherrelAfricaandAltaFölscher,andresearchersatUCT’sGovernanceandRightsUnit,Idasa,andtheInstituteforSecurityStudies.

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DARU Research 2011Political InstitutionsAfricanLegislaturesProject •TheAfricanLegislaturesProject:NewKnowledge(Barkan,Mattes,Mozaffar)

•Education,LegislatorsandLegislaturesinAfrica(Mattes,Mozaffar,Bakan)•TheRoleOrientationsofAfricanMPs(Mozaffar,Barkan,Mattes)•WhatDoAfricansWantFromTheirMPs,AndDoTheyGetIt?(Mattes,BarkanandMozaffar)•DescribingandExplainingtheResponseofAfricanLegislaturestoHIV/AIDS(Searle)

OpenSocietyMonitoringIndex •TheSouthAfricaOpenSocietyIndex(Paremoer,Africa,Mattes)

Public OpinionAfrobarometerCapacityBuildingProject

•DemocratizingtheMeasureofTheQualityofDemocracyinSub-SaharanAfrica(CarolynLoganandMattes)•SocialCapitalinLesotho(Monyake)•PoliticalValuesandGenerationalChangeinBotswana(Lekalake)•MeasuringandExplainingLegitimacyinSouthAfrica(Taderera)•TheEvolutionofNationalIdentityinSouthAfrica(Romo)

CivicEducationandDemocracy •ExaminingSouthAfrica’s‘BornFree’Generation(Mattes)

Voting and ElectionsComparativeNationalElectionsProject

•TheLinkagesBetweenPartisanshipandPopularConceptionsofDemocracy,andDemandandSupplyofDemocracy(Mattes)

Political Consequences of HIV/AIDSTheImpactofAIDSonDemocracy •TheImpactofHIV/AIDSonLocalGovernment(Strand,RobertCameron)

HIV/AIDSGovernance •DisincentivesforPoliticalLeadershiponHIVPreventioninEasternandSouthernAfrica(Strand)•HoldingLeadersAccountablefortheResponsetoHIV/AIDS(Strand)•AccountabilityinWorkplaceResponsestoAIDS(Strand)•MakingAccountabilityWorkfortheAIDSResponse(Strand)•TheBuckStopswithUs:TheNeedforStrategicActiontoRealisePoliticalCommitmentsonAIDSandSRHR(Strand)•DescribingandExplainingtheResponseofAfricanLegislaturestoHIV/AIDS(Searle)

Director:MikeMorris

Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing

PRISMbrings together researchersworking in the broadareas of globalisation, industrialisation, industrial policy,innovation and industry sectoral and services studies.PRISMhas a strong emphasis on policy driven researchactivities.

Theother senior researchers inUCT involved invariousPRISMactivities areDavidKaplan,AnthonyBlack, andDonRoss.

PhDstudentssupportedbyPRISMandworkingondirectlyrelatedresearchwereLynReed,JudithFessehaieandHeinGerwel.PRISMresearchassociateswereRaphaelKaplinsky(OpenUniversity),JoLorentzen(HSRC)andJustinBarnes(BMA).

PRISMmembersareinvolvedinanumberofcollaborativeprojects with researchers at the Universities of Ghana,Ibadan, KwaZulu-Natal, Nairobi, Wolverhampton, OpenUniversity,Mzumbe,AddisAbaba,Mauritius,Universityof Western Sydney, Institute for Social Studies (TheHague),aswellasresearchandpolicyorganisationssuchas theAfrican Economic Research Consortium, InstituteofDevelopmentStudies,UNIDO,WorldBank,TransNa-tionalInstituteandNEPAD.

Photographs:

Top Right: MikeMorrisspeakingattheAfricanExport-ImportBank(Afreximbank)meetinginJune.

Middle Right:ParticipantsatanMMCPworkshopintheCSSR.

Bottom Right:Mike Morris, Raphael Kaplinsky, Judith Fessehaie,MasumaFarooki,andDavidKaplan,whotookpartintheMMCPSynthesisWritingWorkshopinAu-gust.

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Major Research Projects with Policy ImplicationsMaking the Most of Commodities (MMCP) TheMMCPisaUniversityofCapeTownandtheOpenUniversitycollaborative

research/policy programme - Jan 2009 to November 2011 - funded by theIDRC,WilliamandFloraHewlettFoundation,OppenheimerInstitute.ProjectLeaders areMikeMorris andDavidKaplan (UCT), andRaphaelKaplinsky(Open University) with 16 researchers working across 8African countries.TheMMCPaimstoassistAfricancountriestomaximisethepotentiallinkageopportunitiesemanatingfromtheproductionofcommoditiessoastopromotesustainableindustrialgrowth,andtoensurewidespreadaccesstothefruitsofthisgrowthinacontextofgoodgovernance.Thefocusofthecountry/commodityresearch studies are: Angola (oil), Botswana (diamonds), Gabon (timber),Ghana (gold),Nigeria (oil),SouthAfrica (mining services),Tanzania (gold)andZambia(copper).AdditionalcrosscountrystudiesfocusoninfrastructureinEastAfrica,Chineseinvestmentininfrastructure,andknowledgeintensiveservices intomining.The results have been presented at 9 PolicyDialogueworkshops.TheMMCPhaspublished14DiscussionPapersin2011,availableonthePRISM/MMCPwebsites,aswellasjournalarticles.

China in Africa AlargePanAfricanresearchprojectorganisedthroughtheAERCfocussingontheimpactofChinaonSubSaharanAfricainrespectofAid,TradeandFDI.Ithasbeenoperationalforthepastfiveyearsandendedin2011withworkingpaperspublishedontheAERCwebsite.MikeMorriswasajointconvenoroftheproject.

African Clothing and Footwear Research Network(ACFRN)

The AFCRN (founded in 2001) is a network of researchers from Kenya,Tanzania,Ethiopia,Mauritius,SouthAfrica,DenmarkandFranceworkingontheclothing/textileandfootwear/leathersectorsinSSA.Thecurrentongoingproject is a focuson ‘Adjusting toGlobalChineseAscendancy inClothing’spanning 7African countries. Mike Morris is SouthernAfrica coordinator,researcherandexpertadvisor.TheresearchhasresultedinajournalpublicationandanILOconferencepaper.

Cooperation in Clothing and Textiles Industry AprojectundertakenbyMikeMorrisfortheWorldBankPublicGovernanceprogram.ThishasresultedinareportandaforthcomingWorldBankWorkingPaper.

Zambia Growth Strategy InternationalGrowthCentre,London:Zambia-facilitatingandprovidingqualitycontrolforacountrystrategyonZambiawhichDavidKaplaniscooperatingon.SpecificallyresearchprojectsonInvestmentIncentivesandontheInformalSectorandthedevelopmentofabusinessdirectory.

Closing Skills and Technology Gaps WorldBankprojectwithDavidKaplan.ExaminingthetechnologicalperformanceofSouthAfrica,identifyingareasoftechnologicalcapacity,commercialisationofnewknowledge,androleofventurecapital.ResultedinthepublicationoftwoWorldBankpaperswithKaplanasleadauthor.

The Role of the Business Sector in R&D David Kaplan prepared a Report plus Policy Proposals for the MinisterialCommitteeonScienceandTechnology.

Intellectual Property AWorldBankProjectwithDavidKaplanastheSouthernAfricancollaborator,focussing on intellectual property, the role of venture capitalists and thecommercialisationofinventions.TheprojecthasculminatedinaWorldBankpublishedbook.

Technology Absorption in Southern Africa WorldBankprojectwithDavidKaplanonFosteringTechnologyAbsorptioninExportOrientedManufacturingfirms in four SouthernAfrican countries.ResultedinthepublicationofabookpublishedbytheWorldBank.

Employment Intensive Growth Funded by SANPAD and involving collaboration with the Trans NationalInstituteandInstituteforSocialStudiesintheNetherlands.AnthonyBlackisprincipalinvestigatorofthisprojectwhichincludesanexaminationofSouthAfrica’scapital-intensiveindustrialisationprocess.

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Chapters in Books:Hodes, R. 2011.HIV/AIDS onTelevision, Beat It! andNew Forms ofHealthCitizenshipinSouthAfrica,inBarz,G.&Cohen,J.(eds),The Cul-ture of AIDS in Africa(Oxford,OxfordUniversityPress):156-179

Mattes,R.2011.ForgingDemocrats:APartialSuccessStory?,inShapiro,I.&Tebeau,K.(eds)After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa?(Univer-sityofVirginiaPress):72-104

Nattrass,N.2011.AIDSPolicyinPostapartheidSouthAfrica,inShapiro,I.&Tebeau,K.(eds),After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa?(Univer-sityofVirginiaPress):181-198

Nattrass,N.2011.AIDS,GenderandAccesstoAntiretroviraltreatmentinSouthAfrica,inJ.Klot&Nguyen,V-K.(eds),The Fourth Wave: An As-sault on Women. Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century(NewYork:SSRCandGeneva:UNESCO):379-98.

Nattrass,N.andSeekings,J.2011.Theeconomyandpovertyinthetwen-tiethcentury,inA.Mager,Nasson,B.&Ross,R.(eds),The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2: The Twentieth Century (CambridgeUniversityPress):518-72.

Paremoer,L.&Jung,C.2011.TheRoleofSocialandEconomicRightsinSupportingOppositioninPostapartheidSouthAfrica,inShapiro,I.&Tebeau,K.(eds)After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa? (UniversityofVirginiaPress):199-230

Seekings,J.2011.PovertyandInequalityinSouthAfrica,1994-2007,inShapiro,I.&Tebeau,K.(eds)After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa?(UniversityofVirginiaPress):21-51

Seekings,J.2011.Race,ClassandInequalityintheSouthAfricanCity,inG.Bridge&Watson,S.(eds),The New Blackwell Companion to the City (Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell,2011):532-46

Seekings, J. 2011. Measuring the Gendered Consequences of AIDS:Householding andPoverty in SouthAfrica, in J.Klot&Nguyen,V-K.(eds),The Fourth Wave: An Assault on Women. Gender, Culture and HIV in the 21st Century(NewYork:SSRCandGeneva:UNESCO):423-43

Wienand,A.2011.VisualApproachestoHIVLiteracyinSouthAfrica,inBarz,G.&Cohen,J.(eds),The Culture of AIDS in Africa(Oxford,OxfordUniversityPress):94-110

Wreford,J.2010.LooseningtheBondsofHistoricalPrejudice:TraditionalPractitioners asAgents of Reconciliation andChange in ContemporarySouthAfrica,inDigby,A.,Ernst,W&Muhkarji,P.(eds),Crossing Colo-nial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines in Trans-national Perspective, (NewcastleuponTyne,CambridgeScholarsPress)

Journal Articles:Black,A.2011.Trade liberalization, technicalchangeandfirmlevel re-structuringintheSouthAfricaautomotivecomponentsector,International Journal of Institutions and Economies,3(2):173-202.

Black,A.2011.Employment intensivegrowth:What role for industrialpolicy?New Agenda,41:16-25

Geffen, N. 2011.When to StartAntiretroviral Therapy inAdults: TheResultsofHPTN052MoveUsCloser toa‘Test-and-Treat’Policy. The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine,online.

Grebe,E.andNattrass,N.2011.AIDSConspiracyBeliefsandUnsafeSexinCapeTown.Aids and Behavior,online

Grebe, E. 2011. The TreatmentAction Campaign’s Struggle forAIDSTreatmentinSouthAfrica:Coalition-buildingthroughNetworks.Journal of Southern African Studies, 37(4):849-868(December)

Hodes, R. and Naimak, T. H. 2011. PilotingAntiretroviral Therapy inSouthAfrica:TheRoleofPartnershipsintheWesternCape’sProvincialRoll-Out,African Journal of AIDS Research,10(4):415–425(December)

MacGregor,H.andMills,E.2011.FramingRightsandResponsibilities:AccountsofWomenwithaHistoryofAIDSActivism.BMC International Health and Human Rights 2011,11(Suppl3):S7(December)

Maughan-Brown B, Venkataramani AS, Nattrass N, Seekings J, andWhiteside AW. 2011. A Cut Above the Rest: Traditional MaleCircumcision and HIV RiskAmong XhosaMen in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome,58(5):499-505.

Moore,E.2011.Divorceandstigma in Ireland:How the lawandothersocialinstitutionsshapetheexperienceofstigma.Irish Journal of Family Law,14(3):64-71(Autumn)

Muyeba,S. andSeekings, J. 2011.Race, attitudes andbehaviour in ra-cially-mixed, low-incomeneighbourhoods inCapeTown,SouthAfrica,Current Sociology,59(5):655-671

Seekings,J.2011.BritishColonialPolicy,LocalPolitics,andtheoriginsoftheMauritianWefareState,1936-50.The Journal of African History,52(2):157-177

Seekings,J.andNattrass,N.2011.State-BusinessrelationsandPro-PoorgrowthinSouthAfrica.Journal of International Development,23(3):338-357

Seekings, J. 2011. ‘TheChanging Faces ofUrbanCivicOrganisation’,Transformation75:140-61

Standing,H.,Hawkins,K,Mills,E. Theobald,S.andUndie,C. 2011.Contextualizing‘Rights’inSexualandReproductiveHealth.BMC Inter-national Health and Human Rights,11(Suppl3):S1(December)

Wolf,P.S.A,&Figueredo,A.J.(2011)Fecundity,offspringlongevity,andassortativemating:parametrictradeoffsinsexualandlifehistorystrategy.Biodemography and Social Biology,57(2),171-183.

University Publications and Works of a Pop-ular Nature; Unrefereed Journal Articles:Allen,C.2010.IsthebacklashagainstAIDS-specificfundingjustified?AnBloch,R.andOwusu,G.2011.LinkagesinGhana’sGoldMiningIndus-try:ChallengingtheEnclaveThesis.MMCP Discussion Paper1

Corkin, L. 2011. Chinese Construction Companies inAngola:A LocalLinkagesPerspective.MMCP Discussion Paper2

Fessehaie,J.2011.DevelopmentandKnowledgeIntensificationinIndus-tries Upstream of Zambia’s Copper Mining Sector.MMCP Discussion Paper3

Grebe,E.andWoermann,M.2011.InstitutionsofIntegrityandtheInteg-rityof Institutions: Integrity and ethics in thepoliticsofdevelopmentalleadership.DLP Research Paper15.

Hanlin,C.2011.Thedrive to increase localprocurement in theMiningSectorinAfrica:Mythorreality?MMCP Discussion Paper 4

Hodes, R. 2011. The Making of South Africa’s Sexual Offences Act(2007):StructureandAgencyinaWomen’sRightsCoalition.CSSR Work-ing Paper 298

Hodes,R. andGrimsrud,A. 2011.The antiretroviralmoratorium in theFreeStateProvinceofSouthAfrica:Contributingfactorsandimplications.CSSR Working Paper290

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Publications

Hodes,R.andNaimak,T.H.2011.PilotingARTinSouthAfrica:theroleofpartnershipsintheWesternCape’sprovincialroll-out.CSSR Working Paper291

Hodes,R.,Thorpe, J. and Stern,O. 2011. Structure andAgency in thePoliticsofaWomen’sRightsCoalitioninSouthAfrica:TheMakingoftheSouthAfricanSexualOffencesAct,2007.DLP Research Paper16.

Hodes,R.‘Theunsungrevolution’(articleonnewscientificdevelopmentsrelatingtoantiretroviraltreatment),Health-e (28September2011).Avail-ableathttp://www.health-e.org.za/search/searchresults.php.

Hodes,R.(withHoffman,M.andCooper,D), letter to theeditorof theMailandGuardianinresponsetoE.Mhlanga,‘Abortion:aroadtoDa-mascus’,Mail and Guardian(7October2011).Availableathttp://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-07-letters-to-the-editor-october-7/.

Kaplan,D.2011.SouthAfricanMiningEquipmentandRelatedServices:GrowthConstraintsandPolicy.MMCP Discussion Paper 5

MacDevette,M.2011.Diseaseburden,proportionalityandtheAIDSfund-ingdebate-Towardsclarityonwhethertheworldisspending‘toomuch’onHIV/AIDS.CSSR Working Paper 297

MacDevette, M. 2011. Needling the entitlement balloon:Assumptions,costprojectionsandflawsintheCentreforGlobalDevelopment’sAIDS-Costmodel.CSSR Working Paper 294

Mattes,R.2011.Thebornfrees:Theprospectsforgenerationalchangeinpost-apartheidSouthAfrica.CSSR Working Paper 292

Mbayi,L.2011.LinkagesinBotswana’sDiamondCuttingandPolishingIndustry.MMCP Discussion paper 6

Mjimba,V.2011.TheNatureandDeterminantsofLinkagesinEmergingMineralsCommoditySectors:ACaseStudyofGoldMininginTanzania.MMCP Discussion Paper 7

Morris,M.,Kaplinsky,R.andKaplan,D.2011.CommoditiesandLink-ages:IndustrializationinSubSaharanAfrica.MMCPDiscussionPaper13Morris,M.,Kaplinsky,R.andKaplan,D.2011.CommoditiesandLink-ages:MeetingthePolicyChallenge.MMCP Discussion Paper 14

Morris,M.,Kaplinsky,R.andKaplan,D.2011.OneThingLeadstoAn-other”–Commodities,LinkagesandIndustrialDevelopment:AConcep-tualOverview(Revised).MMCP Discussion Paper 12

Muyeba,S.andSeekings,J.2011.Privacyandtheweaknessofcommu-nity:Poorpost-apartheidurbanneighbourhoodsinCapeTown,SouthAf-rica.CSSR Working Paper296

Oyejide,T.A.andAdewuyi,A.O.2011.EnhancingLinkagesofOilandGasIndustryintheNigerianEconomy.MMCP Discussion Paper8

Perkins,D.andRobbins,G.2011.Thecontributiontolocalenterprisede-velopmentofinfrastructureforcommodityextractionprojects:Tanzania’scentral corridor andMozambique’s ZambeziValley.MMCP Discussion Paper 9

Schreiner,W.AndMattes,R.2011.Thepossibilitiesofelectioncampaignsassites forpoliticaladvocacy:SouthAfrica incomparativeperspective.CSSR Working Paper293

Strand,P.2011.MakingaccountabilityworkfortheAIDSresponse.CSSR Working Paper295

Teka,Z.2011.BackwardLinkagesintheManufacturingSectorintheOilandGasValueChaininAngola.MMCP Discussion Paper 11

Terheggen,A.2011.TheTropicalTimberIndustryinGabon:AForwardLinkagesApproach.MMCP Discussion Paper 10

Thaler,K.2011.Driversofmaleperpetrationoffamilyandintimatepart-nerviolenceinCapeTown.CSSR Working Paper 289

Thaler,K.2011.Weapons,violenceand theperpetrator-victimnexus inSouthAfrica.CSSR Working Paper288

Thesis Titles, Masters Graduates:Chileshe,C.‘AnapplicationofLindberg’sthesisinassessingdemocraticgrowthinZambia’

Chisonga,N.‘AccesstohousinginCapeTown:Doyoungpeoplemovesmoothlyfromparentalhomestoindependentlivingarrangements?’

MacDevette,M.‘Diseaseburden,costmodellingand theAIDSfundingdebate-Towardsclarityonwhethertheworldisspending‘toomuch’onHIV/AIDS’

Moya,N.‘EvidenceofcentralisationinSouthAfricanlocalgovernment:Acriticaloverview’

Mughogho,D.‘TheroleofpublicopinioninAfrica’sthirdtermbids’

Murambiwa,R.‘Exploringattitudes towards immigrants inCapeTown,SouthAfrica’

Penfold, E. ‘An analysis of the role of political institutions in definingethnicityandelectoraloutcomesinRwanda’

Romo,M.‘Nationalidentityinpost-apartheidSouthAfrica’

Schwendeman,J.‘Genderparityandthe“usualsuspects”inSouthAfricaneducation’

Searle,A.‘AfricanlegislaturesandHIV/AIDS:Anexploratoryanalysis’

Thaler,K.‘Violenceandsocietyinpost-apartheidCapeTown’

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Above: MatthewMacDevette,whograduatedwithaMastersthisyear,alsohostedaPotterseminar

Below: Alexandra Searle and Michelle Romo acheiveddistinctionsfortheirdissertations

Seminars:Verena Kroth (London School of Economics)PoliticalBudgetCyclesandIntergovernmentalTransfersinaDominantPartyFramework:EmpiricalEvidencefromSouthAfrica

Illana van Wyk (HUMA, UCT)Tatama chance:Contingency and theLottery in Post-ApartheidSouthAfrica

Daniel Kaufman (Brookings Institution)Governance inAfrica in aWorldwide Perspective:What theDataTellUs,andtheChallengesinConstructingandUsingGovernanceIndicators

Robert Cameron (UCT), Per Strand (UCT) and Lauren Smith (UCT)TheImpactofAIDSonLocalGovernmentPerformance:EvidenceoftheThirdWaveoftheAIDSEpidemic

Elena Moore (DARU)ContinuityandChangeAmongAfricanWomeninThreeGenerationFam-iliesinCapeTown

Carlos Shenga (DARU)PoliticalIntermediationandAttitudestowardDemocracyinMozambique

Robert Mattes (DARU)The‘BornFrees’:TheProspectsforGenerationalChangeinPost-ApartheidSouthAfrica

Nathan Geffen (ASRU and Treatment Action Campaign)StartingHAART:WhatShouldourGuidelinesSay?

Zoe Duby, Department of Public Health (UCT)HeterosexualAnalSex:Knowledge,AttitudesandPracticeinFiveEastAfricanCommunities

Lee McIntyre (Boston University)CanSocialScientistsLearnFromPhilosophers?

Ursula Hoadley and Jaamia Galant (UCT)SchoolsPerformingAboveDemographicExpectations(SPADE):AnIni-tialResearchDesign

Debby Gerritsen (Utrecht University)ParticipationofMigrantYouthintheNetherlands:EducationandLabourMarketPerspectives

Maria Garcia and Beatrice Conradie (CSSR and School of Economics) Nature-basedTourismValueandtheDemandforResponsibleTourismontheAgulhasPlain

Nicola Branson (SALDRU, UCT)HealthandEducationalOutcomesforChildrenBorntoTeenageMothersinCapeTown

Singumbe Muyeba (SSU)The Effects of Property Rights on Economic, Social and CulturalCapitalamongPoorBeneficiariesofLow-CostHousinginCapeTown,SouthAfrica

Jenn Schwendeman (Sociology, UCT)GenderedEducationalOutcomesinSouthAfrica

Duncan Pieterse (CSSR)Exposure to Violence and Earnings: Examining the Causal Effect forYoungSouthAfricans

Matthew MacDevette (ASRU)IstheWorldSpendingTooMuchonHIV/AIDS?

Tafara Ngwaru (ASRU)The Impact of Socio-economic Status andOther StructuralDrivers onHIVinSouthernAfrica

Ralph Ssebagala (SSU)WhoisatRiskofDefaultingonConsumerDebtinSouthAfrica?

Pedro WolfADayintheLife:TheRelationshipsAmongNegativeAffect,Covitality,andSpatialBehaviourMeasuredbySelf-reportedSpatialBehaviour,andbyGlobalPositioningSystem(GPS)Technology

Khaled Alan Ahmed (UKZN)UtilisingtraditionalhealthpractitionerstoincreaseHIVtestinginSouthAfrica:Whatarethecostsandchallenges?

Brendan Maughan-Brown (SALDRU) and Atheendar Venkataramani (Washington University)Variation in traditional male circumcision practices and HIV risk:EvidencefromCapeTown,SouthAfrica

Tom Shapiro (Brandeis University)Bringingwealthandracetoanunderstandingofpovertyandinequality

Kai Thaler (SSU)Theutilityofmixedmethodsinthestudyofviolenceandconflict

Abigail Hatcher (University of California)Reducingintimatepartnerviolence:LessonsfrominterventionsinruralKenyanandSouthAfricansettings

Workshops and Conferences:Joint CSSR/IJR/DataFirst quantitative analysis workshop: Quantitative analysis of public opinion data using the SA Reconciliation Barometer14-18November

MMCP Synthesis Writing WorkshopAugust

DARU/CNEP ConferenceAugust

Africa Day 201123-25May

ALP Zimbabwe Introductory WorkshopMay

Dr Christopher Bratt (University of Kent)Postgradutate Teaching Demonstration 2February

MMCP Final Results Workshop17-20January

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Seminars and Workshops

Our Mission StatementTheCentreforSocialScienceResearch(CSSR)isaninterdisciplinaryresearchcentreattheUniversityofCapeTowndedicatedtoconductingandbuildingcapacityforsystematic,policy-relevantsocialscienceresearchinSouthAfrica,theregionandacrossAfrica.

TheCSSRpresentlyconsistsoffourunits:AIDSandSocietyResearchUnit(ASRU),DemocracyinAfricaResearchUnit(DARU),PolicyResearchonInternationalServicesandManufacturing(PRISM),SocialSurveysUnit(SSU),aswellasasmallDirectorate.UnitHeadsreportontheirresearchactivitiesthroughtheCSSRDirectortotheDeanofHumanities.TheCSSRisalsoassistedbyanAdvisoryBoardthatmeetstwice-yearly.WealsocontinuetoworkcloselywithUCT’sDataFirstResourceUnit(whichwasstartedaspartofCSSR),anextensivedigitalarchiveofsocialsciencedatabases.

Methodologically,CSSRresearchisempirical,butproblem-driven.Whileweutilisebothquantitativeandqualitativestrategiesofdatacollection,ourworkisbasedonsystematicresearchdesignswithclearconceptualisationofvariablesandtransparentrulesforoperationalisingvariables,selectingcases,andcollectingandanalysingdataanalysis(incontrasttoadhocfactcollectionornarrativedescription).Afterareasonableperiod,mostcollectedquantativedataareturnedintopublicaccessdatasetsanddepositedwiththeDataFirstResourceUnit.

Substantively, theCSSRconducts research in the broad areas of democratisation, globalisation, development, industrialisation, poverty andpublichealth.TheAIDSandSocietyResearchUnit(ASRU)conductsresearchonthesocialimpactsofHIV/AIDS,includingissuesofparenting,disclosure,sexualbehaviourandpublicwelfare,againusingbothsurveyandqualitativedata.TheDemocracyinAfricaResearchUnit(DARU)conductsresearchonarangeofissuesarounddemocratisationinSouthandSouthernAfrica,usingpublicopiniondatabutalsocreatingnewsystematicdatabasesonelections,legislaturesandlocalgovernment.PolicyResearchonInternationalServicesandManufacturing(PRISM)focusesresearchandpolicyworkonissuesofglobalisationandindustrialisationinSub-SaharanAfrica.TheSocialSurveysUnit(SSU)conductsresearchonarangeofsocialdynamicsusingsurveydata(especiallytheCapeAreaPanelSurvey,andtheCapeAreaSurvey)andrelatedqualitativedata.

CSSRprojectsareusuallyteam-oriented,bringingtogethermultiplelocalandinternationalresearchers,andofferingpost-graduatestudentssignificantopportunitiesforhands-ontrainingbyinvolvingtheminallstagesofprojects.ResearchfindingsarepresentedanddiscussedatregularweeklyseminarsandpublishedasCSSRWorkingPapers.

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CSSR Associate Research FellowsJoel Barkan (University of Iowa/Centre for Strategic and InternationalStudies)RobinBloch(GHKInternational)NathanGeffen(TreatmentActionCampaign)ClaudiaHaarmann(TheologicalInstituteforAdvocacyandResearch inAfrica)

Dirk Haarmann (Theological Institute for Advocacy and Research inAfrica)HeideHackmann(InternationalSocialScienceCouncil)RaphaelKaplinsky(OpenUniversity)ShaheenMozaffar(BridgewaterStateUniversity)ShanaWarren(NewYorkUniversity)

Above:NcedekaMbune,CherrelAfrica,LaurenParemoer,andLaraSierra-RubiaattheCSSRend-of-yearlunch.

Top Left: LilyBunkerandLizWelshattheDARUstallforAfricaDayinMay.

Bottom Left: Abigail,ChristianandSingumbeatYaleonaFoxFellow-ship.

Centre for Social Science Research

DirectorNicoliNattrass

DirectorRobertMattes

Director MikeMorris

DirectorJeremySeekings

TheAIDS and Society Research Unit(ASRU)supportsresearchinto thesocialandeconomicdimensionsofAIDSinSouthandSouthern Africa. Special emphasis is placed on exploring theinterface between qualitative and quantitative research. Focusareasinclude:AIDSpolicyinSouthAfrica,AIDS-stigma,sexualrelationshipsintheageofAIDS,thesocialandeconomicfactorsdriving HIV infection, AIDS conspiracy beliefs; the interfacebetween traditionalmedicineandbiomedicine, the internationaltreatmentrollout,globalhealthcitizenshipandleadership,AIDStreatment activism, and the impact of providing antiretroviraltreatmentonindividualsandhouseholds.

The Democracy in Africa Research Unit (DARU) supportsstudents and scholars who conduct systematic research in thefollowingfourareas:publicopinionandpoliticalcultureinAfricaand its role indemocratisationandconsolidation; electionsandvoting in Africa; the development of legislative institutions;and the impact of theHIV/AIDSpandemic on democratisationin southern Africa. DARU has also developed close workingrelationshipswith projects such as theAfrobarometer (a cross-nationalsurveyofpublicopinionintwentyAfricancountries)andtheComparativeNationalElectionsProject,whichconductspost-electionsurveysinovertwentycountriesacrosstheworld.

TheSocial Surveys Unit (SSU)promotescriticalanalysisofthemethodology,ethicsand resultsofSouthAfricansocial scienceresearch.TheSSUseekstointegratequantitativeandqualitativeresearch.Ourcoreactivities include theoverlappingCapeAreaStudyandCapeAreaPanelStudy.TheCapeAreaStudycomprisesaseriesofsurveysofsocial,economicandpoliticalaspectsoflifeinCapeTown.TheCapeAreaPanelStudyisanongoingstudyof youngpeople inCapeTown as theymove from school intotheworldsofwork,unemployment,adulthood,andparenthood.Linkedtothepanelstudyisanethnographicstudyofchildhoodand adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town. The SSU alsoconductsresearchintoinequality,diversityandsocialpolicy.

Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing (PRISM)provides a lens to focus research andpolicyworkonissuesofglobalisationandindustrialisationinSubSaharanAfrica.The CSSR provides management, administrative and financialservices,aswellasassistinginrealisingitswideresearchremit- tointerfacebetweeneconomicsandotherrelevantdisciplines.PRISM provides a home to a number of independent researchactivities, projects and programmes. The broad focus of theresearchactivitiesundertakenareallconcernedwithissuesofglo-balisation,globalvaluechains,industrialisationpaths,theroleofknowledgeintensiveservices,andinternationalcompetitiveness.