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Good Evidence: How do select committees use evidence to support their work? report

SPS report finds the roles of parliamentary select committees are changing in pursuit of ‘good evidence’

Evidence use by parliamentary select committees is changing as their functions are evolving to not only provide government scrutiny but also offer further opportunities for public participation, according to new research.

26/01/2023
Publishing Events overview
25/01/2023

Publishing for Academics - Event Series

Come and meet an exciting range of external speakers involved in writing and publishing academic material incuding books, journal articles and monographs.

SPS academic’s new open-access book examines the practices of humanitarian journalists
25/01/2023

SPS academic’s new open-access book examines the practices of humanitarian journalists

Promoting the voices of marginalised people involved in crisis situations across the globe - and highlighting neglected crises – can lead to new approaches for humanitarian journalists, according to a new book.
George Palattiyil appointed as Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg
23/01/2023
Social Work

George Palattiyil appointed as Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg

Head of Social Work George Palattiyil has been appointed as Senior Research Associate with the Department of Social Work and Community Development at the University of Johannesburg.

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RTC Seminar
30 January 2023
13:00 - 14:00
Centre of African Studies

Relevance and Relation of Decolonial Studies in Methodology

This seminar will explore decolonial perspectives in crafting research design.
30 January 2023
15:30 - 17:00
Centre of African Studies

Lives in African Science: epistemic space and dynamism in careers of Kenyan researchers

Friday 3 February, 2.00-3.30 PM
Social Policy

States and Welfare States: Government for the People

Join us for the second Social Policy seminar of the semester, with a provocative new look at comparative social policy from Professor Paul Spicker.
03 February 2023
15:00 - 17:00
Social Anthropology

Incising amaXhosa: states of personhood in male circumcision

How do circumcision practices -- enculturated into a phenomenal rite of passage -- coalesce emergent and existing states of Xhosa personhood?