Human resources for S&T

Research in the second focus area analyses the main challenges related to the expansion and transformation of the human resources base for science. This focus area can thus be unpacked into three themes:

Postgraduate education
Academic career and mobility studies
Inequalities in the scientific workforce: race and gender

Postgraduate education

Social identities and careers of international doctoral students
An analysis of current trends in doctoral enrolments and graduations

Academic career and mobility studies

The experiences of doctoral supervision at African universities
The postdoc in South Africa: history, trends and policies
A national study of postdoctoral research fellows in South Africa

Inequalities in the scientific workforce: race and gender

Scientometric analysis of the African workforce
Science as a field of struggle: a multi-method empirical study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research