Author: Megan Roux

News / Peace, justice and strong institutions

Upcoming research: Accountability – What makes people do the right thing all the time?

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Nadeem Salie is currently a guest researcher in the Centre for Global Criminology at the Department of Anthropology. The centre is a research organisation independent from policy or law enforcement agencies. In 2015, Nadeem came to Copenhagen as a Visiting PhD Researcher, and spent seven months at UCPH’s Department of Anthropology. Nadeem returned to UCPH in December 2016 to complete his research. Nadeem was awarded his PhD in Law from the University of Cape Town in 2018

Affordable and clean energy / Applied Sciences / Clean water and sanitation / Climate action / News

Circular economy: Breaking the plastic waves

Megan Rouxby Megan Roux

You’ve heard it all before: the state of our plastic waste crisis is dire. And it’s true. Around 13 million tonnes of plastic leaks into the ocean annually, and this is just expected to increase unless we act now. Of all of the plastic waste generated, the majority is plastic packaging, and constitutes 60% of the coastal waste

Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Resources

AfricaLics (Part 2): A first-hand account of the Visiting Fellowship Programme (VFP) experience

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To get the perspective of a former participant of the AfricaLics Visiting Fellowship Programme (VFP), I spoke to Justina Onumah from the University of Ghana, where Justina is a PhD candidate. Justina has studied Agricultural Economics in her undergraduate and Master’s degrees, but switched to development studies for her PhD. She also works at the CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) in Ghana.

Partnerships for the goals / Resources

AfricaLics (Part 1): South-North partnerships through the lens of AfricaLics

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African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (AfricaLics) is the African regional network of the larger network Globelics. Founded in 2012- the network aims to connect scholars, researchers and policy analysts in innovation and development studies in Africa. This is the first of two articles about the organisation

Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Natural Sciences / News / Sustainable cities and communities

No such thing as waste: resource recovery and shifting perceptions

Megan Rouxby Megan Roux

‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a well-known expression, but one with pernicious effects in the context of waste. We’ve always done things a certain way. Things are made, used, and thrown away. But where do all these thrown-away things go? What do they become? What could they become? Our linear way of thinking and behaving is being increasingly criticised as landfills overflow, water supplies dry up, and air becomes unbreathable.

Clean water and sanitation / Natural Sciences / Resources / Social Sciences

Multidisciplinary collaboration to secure the future of water in Cape Town

Megan Rouxby Megan Roux

In 2018, the City of Cape Town declared a city-wide water crisis, which would be punctuated by ‘Day Zero’ – the day the city would run out of water. The drought had been looming for years, and the City of Cape Town had made some management changes, but all rested on the assumption that rain would fall at the same rate as in the past.