Monash South Africa Research news and events

Newsletter June 2011

Current Research

• Mr Marshall Mdoka - School of Arts: Geography and Environmental Science
• Dr Robert Peacock - School of Arts: Criminal Justice and Criminology
• Dr Ravayi Marindo - School of Health Sciences, Public Health
• Marketing team - School of Business and Economics
• Ms Linda Downsborough - IWC-Africa Water Research Node

Editorship

• Dr Jacques Steyn
• Dr Pier Frassinelli

Other research news

Prof Setswe attended and presented a paper at the Annual Society for Behavioural Medicine Conference.  He also attended a meeting of all field editors of the Journal of Translational Behavioural Medicine in his capacity as field editor in Africa.  He also serves as the African representative in the Organising Committee of the International Behavioural Medicine Congress planned to take place in August/September 2012 in Budapest, where he will coordinate a session on “Behavioural interventions for chronic diseases in Africa.”

Newsletter September 2010

Message from the Deputy Pro Vice–Chancellor: Research

• Fabrication, Characterisation, Modelling and Simulation of Germanium, Zinc Oxide, Gallium Nitride and Aluminium Gallium Nitride Schottky Diodes for opto–electronic applications - Dr. Mohan Das
• Insaka: An African Centered Community of Practice for Management of Social Ecological Systems - Linda Downsborough
• Exploring Language and Cognition in Ontogeny from a Socio–cultural Perspective - Maria Damianova
• Measuring retail efficiency - Adele Berndt
• Nuclear proliferation international history project - Anna–Mart van Wyk