5. Inaugural Lectures

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    Achieving better infrastructure procurement and project outcomes
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023-11) Laryea, Samuel
    The focus of my research has been on analysing tendering, procurement, and contracting processes in the construction industry to determine how they may be improved for better project outcomes and value for money. • Tendering: o Ethnographic studies of contractors’ tender processes, which was the first ever live observational study of the entire bidding process of contractors, to analyse the whole process, and ascertain how risk influences pricing levels. This was the research for my PhD. o Impact of tendering procedure on price formation in construction contracts. • Procurement: o Impact of innovative and collaborative procurement and contracting strategies, o Electronic procurement, o Procurement strategy and outcomes, o Using procurement to achieve socio-economic development objectives, o Procurement of professional services with a specific focus on the relationship between fees and quality. • Construction contracts: o Risk apportionment and commercial review of construction contracts. The research has been highly relevant in academia and industry (e.g. ICE/NEC). I have drawn on it in my teaching over the years, and now I have also drawn on it to develop new academic programmes like the PG Diploma in CM which we started offering in 2022.
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    The many branches of the tree; a personal view of Palaeobotany in Africa
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2014-05) Bamford, Marion
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    Bones of Contention: Shifting Paradigms in Human Evolution with the Skeletons of Australopithecus sediba
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2013) Berger, Lee R.
    In summary, at first glance Australopithecus sediba appears to add despairing complexity to our present understanding of the emergence of early Homo by adding yet another species, this time with an unexpected mosaic of primitive and derived characters, to what we thought we knew of the experiments occurring between the last australopiths and the first definitive members of the genus Homo somewhere around 2 million years ago. Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis both appear to show a trend in encephalization without the frontal complexity seen in Australopithecus sediba, as well as a retention of the general megadentia seen in many late australopiths, as well as, at least in the case of Homo habilis, retention of more primitive australopith aspects in its post-cranial anatomy, surprisingly more primitive in some areas than that observed in sediba.
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    From the Earth and back again to the Moon (with a brief stop on Mars)
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2012-10) Ashwal, Lewis D.
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    Evolution of therapies in inherited bleeding disorders: a remakable journey from blood to gene therapy
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017-04) Mahlangu, Johnny
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    Emergence, risk and enactment: Advancing a multifocal approach to the study of violence
    (2021-08-25) Bowman, Brett
    Violence, in its many forms, remains a defining and seemingly intractable feature of modern life globally. This lecture outlines emergence, risk and enactment as three scholarly focal points for understanding violence in South Africa and beyond. It addresses how and why violence was first identified for study and intervention by the social and health sciences, describes the promises and limits of the current focus on risk, and reviews recent approaches to studying violence in situ that is, as it unfolds rather than how it is reported for counting or meaning making. The lecture then provides several suggestions for strategically fusing these focal points to produce the enhanced picture of violence required to take violence scholarship and intervention programming forward.