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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and amounts to about a third of all global deaths. Decline of death rates for CVDs is faster in high-income compared to low- and middle-income...
Since the start of my career the focus of my scholarly research has been what has been defined as the “agrarian question”. This question is concerned with understanding the processes by which capitalism...
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide. The complexity and intricacies of the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a pivotal role in the progression and development of this disease....
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...
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...
Africa has been dependent on official development assistance or aid for decades. Despite the aid over the years, poverty remains widespread on the continent with 460 million people living below the extreme...
Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts. Conceptualising inhospitability as being unwelcoming and not generous,...
The germline functions to perpetuate life and relay genetic and epigenetic information across generations. Errors during the germline specification cause devastating and long-lasting effects. Our knowledge...
Within global urban historiography there has been no detailed exploration of the nature and consequences of mingling across ethnic, racial or national boundaries in cities strongly socially and spatially...
My project involves writing a song cycle to form the basis of an opera, Where Does The Air Go?. The opera is a long-term project, an all-women’s opera that I am curating with collaborators from the...
The law of unjustified enrichment is about achieving corrective justice, and the aim of my project is about developing a more perfect way of attaining this goal by investigating the phenomenon of enrichment...
The evolution of individuality was first systematically addressed in a very influential book by Leo Buss in 1987. In this book he developed the concept that evolutionary innovations in replicator hierarchies...