Human Sciences Research Council

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The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa's statutory research agency for the humanities, conducts research that generates critical and independent knowledge relative to all aspects of human and social development


History

Founded in 1969, as an offshoot of the ***

Originally it had ** institutes, which included an Institute for Languages, Literature and Arts, which included a National Documentation Centre on the Performing Arts (later the Centre for South African Theatre Research) and an Institute for Communications Research.


The new HSRC

In the late 1980s the HSRC was reformed, and now has 6 research programmes and 3 Centres.

The research programmes are:

Education and Skills Development Economic Performance and Development Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB (including the Africa-wide research network, SAHARA) Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery Human and Social Development


The Centres are:

Centre for Africa's Social Progress Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators Centre for the Study of the Social and Environmental Determinants of Nutrition


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