International Partnerships: Sociology Department | Academic Staff | Brief focus of the collaboration and institution/academics involved | | Dr Lucien van der Walt | With Peter Cole of Western Illinois University (US), Dr Lucien van der Walt wrote "Crossing the Colour Lines, Crossing the Continents: the racial politics of the transnational IWW in South Africa and the US, 1905-1925", which was presented at "Labour Crossings: world, work and history'', 5 to 8 September 2008, University of the Witwatersrand, and at also at the 2008 "Neither Colour, Nor Nationality: the IWW organizes across the colour line in South Africa and the United States,'' co-author with Lucien van der Walt, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Birmingham, Alabama, 1 to 5 October, 2008 | | Co-organised "Labour Crossings: world, work and history", 5-8 September 2008, in Johannesburg, via the History Workshop (Wits University) and the Centre for Sociological Research (University of Johannesburg), in association with the International Association of Labour History Institutions (global, current secretariat based in France) and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (Europe, headquartered in Austria). The event drew in papers from Austria, Botswana, Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK, US and elsewhere: the tally was around 30 countries present. | | Submitted to publishers the edited volume Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution. My co-editor Steve Hirsch is based at the University of Pittsburgh (US), and contributors include Luigi Biondi (Brazil), Arif Dirlik (Hong Kong), Tony Gorman (UK), Dongyoun Hwang (USA), Geoffroy Laforcade (US and France), Emmet O Connor (Northern Ireland), Kirk Shaffer (US), Alexander Shubin (Russia), and Edilene Toledo (Brazil). This volume has arisen from sessions at international conferences in 2006 and 2008. | | Academic Staff | Brief focus of the collaboration and institution/academics involved | | Dr Lucien van der Walt | As Associate Editor for Southern Africa for Immanuel Ness (coordinating editor), International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500 to Present , Blackwell, New York, Dr Lucien van der Walt commissioned and edited entries from an international cohort of scholars including Franco Barchiesi (US), Nanhlanhla Dlamini (Swaziland), Allison Drew (UK), Ackson Kanduza (Botswana), Miles Larmer (UK), Wazha Morapedi (Botswana), and Balam Nyeko (Lesotho). | | Dr Bridget Kenny | Collaborations on research and writing with Prof Franco Barchiesi, Department of African and African American Studies, Ohio State University, USA. Output: publication conference paper (submitted for publication) | | Collaboration with the Department of African and African American Studies, University of Maryland, USA. This is a new collaboration meant based on a comparative work for a project titled, ''Gendered service work and racial regimes of service''. | | Teaching collaboration with Prof Mark Anner, Penn State University, Sociology Department. Teleconference link up for half course of SOCL 4045/7048 Work and Labour in the Global Economy. | | Dr Terry-Ann Selikow | Collaborating with the University of Alberta, Canada and Makere University, Uganda, to put in a CIHR grant (Canadian Institute of Health Research). Submitted. | | Dr Samuel Kariuki | Editorial Board Member: Afriche e Orienti | | Academic Staff | Brief focus of the collaboration and institution/academics involved | | Prof Roger Southall | Editor, Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Administered from Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, and published by Francis and Taylor, Oxford, UK. | | Research partnership with Dr Henning Melber, Director, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden which has led to publication of: Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics. 2006. Co-edited with Henning Melber. HSRC Press. Nordic Africa Institute. A New Scramble? Imperialism, Investment and Development in Africa. Co-Editor with Henning Melber. UKZN Press 2009. New project starting on Liberation movements as governments. | | Prof Roger Southall serves on the following editorial boards: AA· Africa Spektrum, Germany AA· Democratization AA· British Journal of Industrial Relations | | Academic Staff | Brief focus of the collaboration and institution/academics involved | | Dr Michelle Williams | Co-authored publication with Professor Kim Voss (University of California, Berkeley), ''The Local in the Global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium'', recently published in The University of California, Berkeley s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Working Paper Series ( 2009 Paper iirwps-177-09). | | Adjudication Committee for the Social Economy program-Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (July 17-19, 2008) | | Reviewer for Project Grants for India projects-Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2009) | | Co-organized conference on the developmental state with experts from three countries: Professor Peter Evans (University of California, Berkeley), Professor Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford University), Professor Ching Kwan Lee (University of California, Los Angeles), Dr. Thomas Is c (Finance Minister, Kerala, India). May 25-28, 2008 | | Currently co-editing volume on Developmental state with contributions from Brazil, USA, India, UK, Taiwan, and Ireland. The co-editor is Professor Ching Kwan Lee, University of California, Los Angeles | | Taught Master's level course at the University of Kassel, Germany's Global Political Economy Masters Program (July 2009) | | Gave talk at the Center for International Studies, Caracas, Venezuela (July 2, 2008) | | Invited to contribute to an edited volume on Marxism and Social Movements (edited by Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland, Maynooth) | | In the process of setting up a Global Ethnography network with colleagues in Canada, USA, Ireland, and Germany | | Academic Staff | Brief focus of the collaboration and institution/academics involved | | Dr Michelle Williams | GIS Mapping Project with Professor Patrick Heller, Brown University (July 2008-August 2009) | | Invited and Organized two-week seminar series by Erik Olin Right, University of Wisconsin (September 2007) | | Participating in Real Utopias project on cooperatives (Organized by Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin and Ramon Fletcher, University of Barcelona, Spain)-the outcome will be a book manuscript. | | Research collaboration on cooperatives with colleagues at: the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil; Working World, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Center for International Studies, Caracas, Venezuela; University of Barcelona, Spain; UK cooperatives College; University of Wisconsin, USA; University of Bologna, Italy. | | Paul Germond | The ArhapWits Research Unit has formal links and a Memorandum of Agreement with the Religion and Public Health Collaborative at Emory University, Atlanta, USA. This includes: § Funding for collaborative workshops. We have ddeveloped and piloted a two day participatory research workshop, The Participatory Inquiry into Religious Assets for Sexual Health (PIRASH) with participation from the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Research sites have been Potchefstroom, with Eldorado Park, Hillbrow, Jabavu (Soweto) and Parkview, in Johannesburg, and Atlanta. § There have been two Sociology Post grad students who have spend time at Emory doing short courses on Public Health. § Two Emory MPH students have spent two month periods in the ArhapWits Office working on the collaborative venture. ArhapWits has good collaborative relationships with the Department of Sociology and the Medical School at Boston University, which include visits from us to Boston, December 2008 and April 2009 | | Academic Staff | Brief focus of the collaboration and institution/academics involved | | Dr Leah Gilbert | Conferences and general academic links: International Sociological Association (ISA); Executive member of Research Committee on the Sociology of Health (RC15); International Social Pharmacy; and Medical Sociology Group of the British Sociological Association | | I. Social Inequalities and Health: Research Grant to The Israel National Institute For Health and Health Services Research (NIHP): Explanatory Pathways to Social Inequality and Health in Israel -an integrated evaluation of individual psychological and community factors. In collaboration with Dr Varda Soskolne and Dr Orly, School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem. (See co-authored publications) | | II. Innovative Health Technologies: An ESRC research programme in collaboration with the MRC (UK): Exploring the Wider deployment of innovative health technologies: the case of emergency hormonal contraception. In collaboration with Dr Claire Anderson, Director of Pharmacy Practice and Social Pharmacy, Pharmacy School, Nottingham University | | III. The Wits/Colorado/African Population and Health Research Center (Nairobi) group has responded to an NIH call for applications for Global Partnerships for Social Science AIDS Research. The intention is to build on the existing collaborations to extend research on AIDS and especially to take advantage of the rollout of HIV/AIDS treatment in Agincourt. I was invited to participate and contribute towards the proposal above by the Principal Investigator Prof Jane Menken, Director of the Institute for Behavioural Sciences (IBS), University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | | IV. Understanding the Social Complexity of Anti-Retroviral Therapy - NRF Funded project. The Principal Investigator is Professor Leah Gilbert, Department of Sociology, Wits in collaboration with Professor Claire Anderson and Dr Paul Bissell, Centre for Pharmacy, Health and Society, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK, as well as Dr Elizabeth Walker, Social Work, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, UK | |
