 | International Liaison |
Head: International Liaison
Mandate
The International Liaison unit provides leadership and support to identify, coordinate and manage strategic international relations and engagements of the HSRC.
News
The HSRC under the auspices of the Department of Science and Technology, together with its partners CODESRIA, the International Social Science Council and UNESCO participated and jointly hosted a seminar at COP17 in Durban, aptly titled: “The Social Sciences in a Changing Climate: Meaningful knowledge that works”. This important event was attended by key stakeholders from government, research, policy-makers, donors and members of international organisations committed to the climate change response.
The report from the seminar and presentations are available:
View the report The Social Sciences in a Changing Climate: Meaningful knowledge that works;
Presentation by Peter Jacobs from EPD search unit: Regenerative farming, indegenous knowledge and climate change:
Expand environmentally friendly agriculture in rural Limpopo;
Presentation by Heide Hackmann (ISSC) & Asuncion Lera St Clair (CICERO): Transformative cornerstones of social
research for climate science change.
Important announcement
Unit Head: Bridgette Prince
Ms Prince is appointed as Director: International Liaison in the Office of the CEO.
Formerly she was a programme manager and the networking and gender coordinator in the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Alliance (SAHARA) at the HSRC.
Before joining the HSRC in January 2004, she was a programme manager at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, where she was responsible for the implementation and management of the programme section. During this time, she was responsible for managing South Africa's first population-based HIV/AIDS survey and the Mandela Foundations HIV leadership and treatment programmes.
Her areas of research interest include developing strategic partnerships and the management and coordination of projects in the HIV/AIDS and gender arena and otherwise. She has been involved in several large-scale, high-profile projects including the Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study on HIV/AIDS in 2002, 2005 and 2008, the Nosocomial Study in the Free State in 2005 and the National Study on Educator Demand and Supply.
Since her appointment in 2006 she has managed to extend our outreach to Africa through building and managing critical and strategic relationships with institutions and universities and has grown our bilateral involvement as well as our relationship with foreign embassies and international donors. Through her coordination the HSRC's international exchange of scholars and expertise have remarkably increased.
She serves as a member of the International Scientific Board of AIDS Impact and has participated on all the conference planning committees since 2005.
Telephone: +27 (0)21 466 7968
E-mail: mailto:bprince@hsrc.ac.za
Additional Staff
Michiline Meyer: Administrator and Personal Assistant to the Director