Department of Information Science Research Seminar-13 March 2012

As part of the Unisa Research and Innovation Week (12th-15th March 2012) the Department of Information Science organised Research Seminar on the 12th March 2012. At this Seminar, staff members discussed the various research projects that they are currently involved in.
1. Ms Nampombe Mnkeni-Saurombe: Public programming Of public archives in the East and Southern Africa Branch of the International Council of Archives (ESARBICA): Towards an inclusive and integrated model (Doctoral Research proposal)

2. Ms Isabel Schellnack-Kelly: Records management fundamentals and the attainment of public sector integrity (Doctoral research proposal)

 

3. Mr Salmon Makhubela: Knowledge retention in mining industries: A case study of platinum mines in the North West Province (Masters Research Proposal)

4. Ms Nicoline Wessels: Strategies for deep learning in an information literacy module in an ODL environment (Doctoral Research Proposal)

 

5. Mr Jan Maluleka Factors influencing research collaboration in Library and Information Science schools in South Africa. (Masters Research Project)

6. Ms Veli Jiyane: The role of the information and knowledge society in poverty alleviation and economic empowerment among informal sector women entrepreneurs in South Africa. (Completed Doctoral Research)

7. Prof Bosire Onyancha: LinkedIn for property? Web status of national libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Research project)

8. Prof Thomas van der Walt and Ms Veli Jiyane: Children and climate change: a caste study of Isimangaliso Wetland Park (Research project)

9. Prof Thomas van der Walt and Ms Namps Saurombe-Mnkeni: People in their own right: children’s rights as reflected in children’s literature (Part of a collaborative research project: Korczak’s children: paths on the pedagogical and literary thought of the work of Januscz Korczak) (Research project)

10. Prof Thomas van der Walt and Mr Jan Maluleka: Children’s reading behaviour in Africa: part 1 – Namibia. (Collaborative research project with the University of Namibia)