Projects

Despite extensive social science research documenting the coercion and damage attendant and endemic to the sex industry and decades of legal debate on approaches to this problem, no effective legal challenges...

This is a book-length biography of Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela (b. 1964) and situates her life and writing within three broad contexts. First, it centers Aboulela’s experiences as a migrant Muslim...

Many parts of Africa are today not connected to an electricity grid. Both, centralized energy systems with extended energy distribution networks, which are common in other parts of the world, and decentralized...

Human-caused changes are affecting the environment in ways that challenge many organisms, including parasites. Many of these parasites are exposed to the environment (as environmental or “off-host”...

Gold dominated South Africa for a century. Hundreds of thousands of people from across Southern Africa laboured in the bowels of the earth to extract it, recruited through an extensive, highly organised...

This project provides a historical perspective on migration, demonstrating that it is the defining feature of our species, without which homo sapiens would not have thrived and populated our planet. Migrants...

Bioinspiration is the use of physical and technological principles to design devices working almost as biological entities (from the animal and vegetal species). This project aims to contribute in the...

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are devastating disorders affecting millions worldwide. All aging populations worldwide are increasing. With the population increase,...

Obesity is a medical condition defined as the excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to human health. Health hazards associated with obesity include heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Worldwide...

In recent decades nations around the world have begun to open up significant amounts of the non-personal data they generate, gather and hold. From education to housing, health to transport, urban planning...

This project addresses the question of what constitutes good scientific reasoning. The starting point is the observation that scientific reasoning takes place in the realm of uncertainty: We do not know...

Changed circumstances since the adoption of the primary international human rights treaties, a multitude of scattered education rights norms, and distinct new challenges require a “reframing” of the...