This event, from 22 to 24 October 2025 is hosted by the HSRC and the National Research Foundation. It aims to foster meaningful partnerships, enhance the co-creation of knowledge, and promote the integration of academic inquiry with society-driven priorities. Engaged research (ER) is increasingly acknowledged as a pillar in fostering multi-sectoral collaboration to generate and disseminate knowledge for impact.
Join us at the upcoming conference, “Engaged research as a pathway to bridging knowledge and society,” where researchers, practitioners, community members, and policymakers will converge to explore innovative approaches to engaged research (ER) that address pressing societal challenges.…
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in collaboration with Stellenbosch University cordially invites you to join our webinar exploring the critical link between poverty, inequality, and gender-based violence perpetrated against vulnerable women in South Africa. This online event will take…
In 2016, a team of HSRC researchers visited Vuwani in the Limpopo Province of South Africa shortly after dozens of schools were burned down during violent demarcation protests. In 2024, the researchers returned to conduct a follow-up study as part of an HSRC-commissioned project celebrating 30 years…
The HSRC cordially invites you to join our seminar on the unfolding security crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Recently, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the longest and most complex conflicts in Africa’s modern history has re-escalated. What began as a political…
The HSRC is pleased to invite you to the launch of A New History of Formal Schooling in South Africa 1658-1910: An education of Contradictions, on the 6th of March 2025 in Cape Town. This book presents the first history of schooling gathered as a single and continuous text since the 1980s. It…
The HSRC, in partnership with the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF), cordially invites you to participate in a high-level diplomatic engagement on Diplomacy at a Glance in Africa Regional and International Relations on 27 February 2025 in Pretoria. This timely engagement aims to provide a platform for…
The HSRC is pleased to invite you to the launch of African Literature and Intellectual Histories: Reflecting on Ntongela Masilela’s Work. The book is about Professor Ntongela Masilela (1948–2020) who is recognised as one of South Africa’s most eminent scholars. Join us to discuss his highly…
The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), in partnership with the CSIR and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), invites you to a virtual webinar/workshop to discuss opportunities and constraints to the uptake of skilled postgraduate students in the South African waste…
This session will present the groundbreaking findings of the first national study on the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in all nine provinces of South Africa. The report delves into the prevalence of various forms of violence, including Physical, sexual, emotional, and economic violence,…
The HSRC cordially invites you to join the launch of our podcast series, Hustling the African Dream on 4 December 2024 at the HSRC Cape Town office. Conceptualized by a team of young researchers in the Young African Research Fellowship Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and…
