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Title: | Government, Universities and the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council): A Perspective on the Past and Present |
Authors: | Chisholm, Linda Morrow, Seán |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 63 |
Pages: | 45-67 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | research centres universities research financing science and technology policy Bibliography/Research Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government History and Exploration |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/219634 |
Abstract: | The article considers the history of the Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC) relationship with government and universities in South Africa in three periods (1917-1945, 1945-1990 and 1990-2005), characterizing the first as relatively harmonious, the second as conflictual and the third as uneasy. Underpinning this relationship is the nature of the funding of research in universities and entities such as the HSRC. This the article explores from its foundation to the current period, linking a discussion of it to the degree of independence of researchers and as mediating its relationships with government and universities. The article uses secondary sources to develop the argument and ends with a plea for the history of the HSRC to be written. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |