SASUF Goes Digital: 2020 Edition

• Moderator introduces the topic and the speakers (10min)
• 3 speakers (one of each from early / mid / late career) make a presentation based on their own experience with ethics and the changes they identify due to internationalization, to COVID-19 and digitalization, the challenges it represented for them, while others react to the presentation (45min, 15min each)
• Round table: open discussion between the speakers to confront their views and opinions, share experiences, best practices, … (30min)
• Wrap-up session (5min)

• High Energy Density and Power: Hybrid Supercapacitors from Renewable Sources | Patrik Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology) and Ncholu Manyala (University of Pretoria)
• Birds as city slickers? Unravelling physiological mechanisms of how birds cope with urban life | Caroline Isaksson (Lund University) and Arjun Amar (University of Cape Town)
• The influence of homogeneous and non-homogeneous I-131 and I-123 SPECT activity distributions on patient-specific three-dimensional dosimetry | Michael Ljungberg (Lund University) and Johan van Staden (University of the Free State)
• STEM Pedagogical Competence in contexts of HE transformation | Thomas Olsson (Lund University) and Christine Winberg (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)
• Structural studies of C-SA HIV Protease and it’s inhibition | Katja Petzold (Karolinska Institutet) and Gert Kruger (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
• Ectopic fat deposition and insulin resistance: understanding the link in black SA women | Tommy Olsson (Umeå University) and Julia Goedecke (South African Medical Research Council)
• Health Policy and Systems Research: Strengthening community-based health systems | Anna-Karin Hurtig (Umeå University) and Helen Schneider (University of Western Cape)
• Improving performance of wide-bandgap materials | Vanya Darakchieva (Linköping University) and Hendrik Swart (University of the Free State)
• Unravelling the multilingual mind | Marianne Gullberg (Lund University) and Emanuel Bylund Spångberg (Stellenbosch University)
• Adaptation of language assessments for Swedish, SeSotho and SeTswana Speaking children | Christina Samuelsson (Linköping University) and Michelle Pascoe (University of Cape Town)

1. A network of academics willing to experiment with letter writing across the globe 

2. A sharing of innovative and creative methods for the social sciences and humanities to connect people in a personal way in this digital age 

3. Opportunities for greater collaboration in education for a sustainable society  through social transformation 

1. Highlight the importance of hearing impairment as a global health concern, in particular, congenital or early acquired hearing impairment, with an estimated prevalence of 5.5/1000 in South Africa and 2/1000 in Sweden and the need for universal neonatal screening in order to facilitate early identification, diagnosis and the start of habilitation of children with congenital or early acquired hearing impairment. 

2. Explain the differences between the healthcare and education systems in South Africa and Sweden related to hearing impairment. 

3. Showcase our research project which is a collaborative effort, not only between the researchers from Sweden and South Africa, but also educators and therapists from CHAT (Children Hear and Talk) a special Early Childhood Centre (ECD) which is part of the Carel du Toit Centre, a special school for deaf children who are taught to speak; providing background to the project and its current status; also highlighting the services/habilitation offered at CHAT. 

4. Share the preliminary findings of the study and describe the way forward. 

• Moderator introduces the topic and the speakers (10min)
• 3 speakers (one of each from early / mid / late career) make a presentation based on their own experience with supervision and the changes they identify due to internationalization, to COVID-19 and digitalization, the challenges it represented for them, while others react to the presentation (1h, 20min each)
• Round table: open discussion between the speakers to confront their views and opinions, share experiences, best practices, … (40min)
• Wrap-up session (10min)

The Session and timing:

10:00 Anthony Brown welcomes people, introduces Dennis and Irina and frames the session 

10:05 Dennis Francis 

10:30 Irina Schmitt 

10:55 Anthony Brown facilitates any questions from the attendees

11: 20  Closing 

• Moderators: Trynos Gumbos, Univ of Johannesburg and, Marie Thynell, Univ of Gothenburg, 
• An overview of the project and, peri-urban areas and small rural towns in South Africa; and methodology used to collect data: Emaculate Ingwani and Per Schubert 
• Ecosystem services and benefits derived from the ecological functions of the natural ecosystems – a Swedish perspective: Nils Ekelund 
• TOD, Transit Oriented Development - Verna Nel
• The impacts of peri-urban expansion and municipal service provision: Experiences from Makhado Biaba Town: Luminosa Rutendo Gurure
• Livelihoods  pathways  in peri-urban  zones of  small rural towns: Experiences  from Makhado Biaba Town: Shonisani Felicia Phaswana
• Rethinking the growth centers strategy as key to local economic development: Lessons from Makhado Biaba Town: Winny Ngudo Nthange

• lessons learned from other countries in skills development for socio-economic change.
• the importance of socio-economic transformation.
• vocational and technical skills acquisition and
• the role of adult education in socio-economic transformation.
• recommendations for the implementation of the NSDS

• Professor Julian May – Changes in food security in South Africa since the end of Apartheid: Evidence using child malnourishment.
• Professor Rina Swart – Exploring the dietary intake of South Africans over the period of 1997-2019 by age and income decile to postulate the foodprint of these changes.
• Associate professor Wayne Twine – Exploring the environmental dimension of malnutrition in South Africa, and how it intersects which household characteristics to determine the impact pathway on food security and nutrition.
• Fezile Wagner, PhD candidate; Maquines Odhiambo Sewe, PhD; and Masoud Vaezghasemi, PhD – Developing spatio-temporal binomial hierarchical regression model to assess the association of climate signals on stunting in South Africa.