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Critical reflections on conducting qualitative health research during Covid-19: The lived experiences of a cohort of postgraduate students in a South African university
(Sage journal, 2023-01-02)
COVID-19 ushered in public health guidelines restricting face-to-face contact and movement, and encouraging social distancing,
all of which had implications for conducting field-based research during the pandemic. For ...
We are not Islands: The role of social support in the relationship between perceived stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and psychological distress
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated an overall increase in the global prevalence of mental health disorders and psychological distress. However, against this backdrop, there was also evidence of adaptation and coping, which ...
Lockdown, resilience and emergency statecraft in the Cape Town food system
(Cities, 2022)
Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, rapidly growing cities of the global South were at the epicenter of multiple converging crises affecting food systems. Globally, government lockdown responses to the disease triggered ...
The effect of school summer holidays on inequalities in children and young people’s mental health and cognitive ability in the UK using data from the millennium cohort study
(BMC Public Health, 2022)
Background: Summer learning loss has been the subject of longstanding concern among researchers, the public
and policy makers. The aim of the current research was to investigate inequality changes in children’s mental ...
Designing online learning environments in higher education: Building capacity of lecturers to design and facilitate blended e-pedagogy for mature students
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Amidst the spread of COVID-19, higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa
were compelled to offer academic programmes through online learning by utilising digital
information and communication technologies (ICT) ...
Adult education and learning access: Hope in times of crisis in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The call for chapters for this book was inspired by the shock of COVID-19 impacting
on the adult and community education sector in our country. However, the
proposals for chapter after chapter that landed in our inboxes ...
How viruses evolve
(2020)
The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By March, the infection began to spread to other Asian countries and overseas. ...
Tin Roof owner adamant venue not source of Covid-19 ’superspreader event’
(Independent Online, 2020)
Cape Town - A large number of Covid-19 cases among high school pupils tracked to a bar in Cape Town has raised questions about social gatherings and easing of lockdown.
James Truter, owner of the Tin Roof bar in Claremont, ...
Socio-economic crisis, social security, distributive justice, and vulnerable adults’ access to post-school education and training in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Emerging international theoretical perspectives illuminate new understandings
about adults’ access to post-school education and training (PSET) in contexts of crisis.
As the crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic ...
COVID-19 and HIV: so far it seems the outcome is not what was feared
(The conversation, 2020)
Based on
official figures
– which may be somewhat under reported – COVID-19 has not been asdevastating in South Africa as initially feared.
Back in March and April this year
case numbers
on the continent were still ...