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African academies of science as science advisers: The case of South Africa and Uganda
(2022-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent decades, science advising – the process that makes scientific evidence available to policy makers to aid decision making – has gained prominence. The prominence has been accompanied by a greater ... -
Wine scientists and winemakers as two communities: bridging the gap through boundary-spanning activities
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is believed that investments in academic research and development have contributed to new world wine-producing countries entering the international wine markets, traditionally dominated by European ... -
Reflections from emerging evaluators in shaping Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation capacity-building initiatives
(AOSIS, 2020)Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) are increasingly realising the importance of ‘mainstreaming’ emerging evaluators (EEs) in capacity-building initiatives for sustaining the evaluation profession. ... -
Evaluation education in South Africa : characteristics and challenges in a changing world
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: South Africa and other developing countries are facing an ever-increasing demand for competent evaluators. In addition, increasing demands are being placed on those who become evaluators. What does this mean ... -
Public engagement with science : origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy
(Public Library of Science, 2021-07-07)‘Public engagement with science’ has become a ‘buzzword’ reflecting a concern about the widening gap between science and society and efforts to bridge this gap. This study is a comprehensive analysis of the development of ... -
The role of mentoring in the career outcomes of female early-career academics in Africa: a secondary analysis of multi-country data
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Even though previous research has documented the powerful potential of mentoring through the vast array of benefits that it offers, little is known about the relationship between mentoring and academic ... -
Towards a second generation of social media metrics : characterizing Twitter communities of attention around science
(Public Library of Science, 2019)'Social media metrics’ are bursting into science studies as emerging new measures of impact related to scholarly activities. However, their meaning and scope as scholarly metrics is still far from being grasped. This ... -
Remembering Rein Arndt, 1929–2020
(ASSAf, 2020-05-27)Reinhard Richard Arndt died on 1 January 2020 at the age of 90, and 23 years after his retirement from his presidency of the Foundation for Research Development in 1996. A detailed account of Arndt’s professional career ... -
Rolf Stumpf (1945–2020) : tough, decisive and compassionate technocratic-intellectual
(ASSAf, 2021-05-28)Reflecting on the career of Rolf Stumpf, who passed during late October 2020 from cancer, reminded me of a meeting I had around 1992 with the famous Hungarian sociologist Ivan Szelenyi, who had started working on his ... -
Mobility, gender and career development in higher education : results of a multi-country survey of African academic scientists
(MDPI, 2019-06-14)Empirical knowledge of the mobility of African scientists, and women scientists in particular, holds an important key to achieving future success in the science systems of the continent. In this article, we report on an ... -
Development of research excellence : insights from modes of work of high-achieving early-career researchers
(HESA, 2021)When early-career researchers show promise to become the next generation of leading researchers, it is in the best interest of their employers to nurture their careers. This objective requires adequate understanding and ... -
Leveraging media informatics for the surveillance and understanding of disease outbreaks
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Syndromic disease surveillance mechanisms can be enhanced by incorporating mass media informatics for disease discourse and aberration detection and social psychology for understanding risk perceptions ... -
A gender perspective on career challenges experienced by African scientists
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019)Empirical knowledge of the career challenges that confront African scientists, and women scientists in particular, holds an important key to achieving future success in the science systems of the continent. In this article, ... -
Research production and research collaboration in Zimbabwe: A bibliometric study in context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Several bibliometric studies on research production and research collaboration in Africa have been carried out. Most of the studies use mainstream bibliographic databases (Scopus and Web of Science ... -
The uptake of wildlife research in Botswana: a study of productive interactions
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study set out to identify and understand whether research carried out in or about Botswana has been focused on producing useful and used work in the area of wildlife and related natural resources, ... -
A scientometric analysis of the science system in Tanzania
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main goal of the study was to conduct an assessment of the state of science in Tanzania. More specific objectives focused on the levels of research investment, human resources for S&T, and the research ... -
From top scientist to science media star during COVID-19 – South Africa's Salim Abdool Karim
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2020)Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned a handful of leading scientists into highly visible public figures. Anthony Fauci is the media star in the USA; Roberto Burioni in Italy; and in Sweden, it is Anders ... -
Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic
(Cornell University, 2020)The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a bulk of scientific research and related Twitter discussions. To unravel the public concerns about the COVID-19 crisis reflected in the science-based Twitter ... -
Performance measurement of policy priorities: tracking government performance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is universal consensus that governments need to execute their functions well so that the needs of citizens are met. Performance measurement enables governments to determine whether their efforts are ... -
The study of institutionalisation of a national monitoring and evaluation system in Zimbabwe and Botswana.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The aim of the study was to assess the extent to which Zimbabwe and Botswana’s national M&E systems are institutionalised. This was done through answering the following research questions: 1) What is ...
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