African Unit for Transdisciplinary Research

Worldwide, countries have to respond to local and global socio-technological shifts and needs, specifically the transformations wrought by a rapidly shifting understanding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Science, technology and innovation policy (STI) finds itself at the intersection of these local and global challenges. 'Innovation Policy at the Intersection: Global Debates and Local Experiences' shows that a comprehensive rethink in STI policy-making is required - one that takes a systemic view of the varied challenges, and adopts an inclusive and holistic approach to STI policy. Such a rethink has to bring together the global and local, the theoretical and practical. The chapters in this book follow three broad concerns: - The theories and approaches that have historically informed STI policy-making, along with the most influential current approaches in different country contexts; - The development and application of comprehensive STI monitoring and evaluation systems as developed and implemented by various public agencies; and - The role and function of STI policy advisory bodies within their respective contexts. 'Innovation Policy at the Intersection' provides a comprehensive lens of different theories and practices across a unique spectrum of national contexts, including Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Finland, Iran, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, and Sweden

This article is the country report on South Africa in the Global Handbook on Student Affairs and Services (3rd edition). It provides an overview of Student Affairs and Services in South Africa with respect to the higher education system and evolution of student affairs, the typical organizational structure of student affairs and services, staffing, theoretical influences, professionalization, and issues and challenges.

In this paper, we critically reflect on our conceptualization and operationalization of "rapid photovoice" as a close-up, emanci-patory, action research methodology which has multiple, intersecting social-justice goals; and consider the methodology's potential for helping to achieve such goals. We first consider photovoice in relation to its typical use in public health research, as well as in prior research into student experiences of higher education. We then consider our pragmatic redesign of the methodology as rapid photovoice (RPV), which we conceptualized in response to the goals, parameters, and constraints inherent in our project, which studied student movement violence and wellbeing. In the third part of the article, we describe and discuss our operationalization of RPV in this study on four university campuses in South Africa. In the fourth section, we reflect on some of the ethical considerations arising from the topic and the methodology. In the final section of the article, we critically assess the interim outcomes of our use of RPV in terms of (1) psychologically empowering students to reflect on traumatic experiences in a safe space and enhancing their self-awareness of wellbeing, wellbeing resources and coping strategies; (2) the politically eman-cipatory potential of photovoice to represent student experiences authentically and with immediacy to higher education policy role-players, and (3) its ability to co-create artifacts of collective memory that provide authentic empirical material for making trustworthy knowledge claims.