Projects

The chance find of a diamond on a small hillock in South Africa one hundred and fifty years ago initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate far into the future....

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary research paradigm that emerged after WWII and that studies the mind at psychological, computational and neurobiological levels of analysis. The cognitive sciences...

The presented project aims at a systematic study of multiple scale models in epidemiology. Mathematically we plan to address and systematically study aspects of two drawbacks of the classical singular...

The most important wine country in Africa is South Africa where grapes and wine were introduced by the white settlers in the 17th century.  South Africa has a global standing as a wine producer. It is...

This project will use a multi–site comparative design to explore how ruling parties in Zambia (and Zimbabwe) extend their reach through dispensing ‘public’ goods such as market and bus stalls...

This project enables the completion of ongoing research that explores knowledge systems in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands. Through the completion of a monograph of the same (provisional) title,...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) intervened in Kenya after the disputed 2007/8 election that led to displacement of more than 650,000 people and death of 1133 lives according to the post–election...

In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown (2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within...

Metal bioavailability-based approaches are used to predict the bioavailability of metals in surface waters and toxicity to aquatic organisms. Over the years, several bioavailability-based models have been...

Innovations in biological evolution and in human culture  – from science to the arts – arise by processes with multiple parallels. One of them is that many innovations originate as ‘sleeping beauties’,...

Orthogonal polynomials appear in many areas of applied mathematics and in particular in numerical analysis. Within machine learning and optimization, typically, they provide natural basis functions that...

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem which affects both developing and developed nations. However, the mandate for international measure enforcements are limited. Significant number of bacteria...