ISER Research Reports
Our most recent research report "Living in Rhini, is now available. The report is a 2007 update on the 1999 Social Indicators Report" by Valerie Moller (Quality of Life Chair). Contact: v.moller@ru.ac.za or K.farrington@ru.ac.za
Our Makana Research Group reports on Tourism and Agriculture in the Makana Municipality, commissioned by the local Municipality, are intended to inform the development of a Local Economic Development Strategy. These will be available as research reports shortly.
Previous ISER Research Reports obtainable in hard copy are:
Perceptions of Fortune and Misfortune in Older South African Households: Social Pensions and "Good Life" by Valerie Moller. (2011) 163pp No. 16 Price: R30.00 ISER Research Report 16ISER R Report 16 FortuneMisfortune.pdf
Destigmatising TB in the Time of HIV/AIDS. Attitudes, beliefs, and recommendations from an Eastern Cape community by Valerie Moller (2008) 95pp. No. 15. Price: R25.00
Living in Rhini: A 2007 update on the 1999 Social Indicators Report by Valerie Moller (2008) 84pp. No 14.
'TB is not an easy thing': Focussed discussions on the stigma related to tubercolosis in the Eastern Cape in a time of HIV/AIDS by Valerie Moller and Ida Erstad with Dalindyebo Zani and Andile Tobi (2006). 77pp. No. 13. Price: R25.00TB is Not Easy - FocusGroupReport Nov 2006.pdf
Direct-use values of non-timber forest products at Ntubeni and Cwebe on the Transkei Wild Coast by C.M Shakleton, H.G. Timmermans, N. Nongwe, N. Hamer and R.C.G. Palmer (2004). 43pp. No. 12. Price: R20.00
Small-scale rural fisheries as a vehicle for rural development: A case study of two villages in the former Ciskei, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa by Simpiwe Seti (2004). 100pp. No. 11. Price: R25.00
'Gardening is our life'. Food gardens and quality of life in Grahamstown East by Valerie MIller and Simpiwe Seti (2004). 39pp. No. 10. Price: R25.00
Growing up in Grahamstown East/Rini: A sample Survey of Youth 15-24 Years by Valerie Møller in collaboration with Charlotte van Hees and Andile Tobi (2001). 136pp. No. 9. Price: R20.00
Monitoring Poverty and Inequality in Buffalo City by Robin Richards and Ellen Kamman (2001). 33pp. No. 8. Price: R20.00
East Bank Land Restitution Claim: A Social History Report by Landiswa Maqasho and Leslie Bank (2001). 36pp. No. 7. Price: R20.00
Living in Grahamstown East/ Rini: A Social Indicators Report by Valerie Møller (editor), with contributions by Cecil W. Manona, Charlotte van Hees, Edmund Pillay and Andile Tobi (2001). 88pp. No. 6. Price: R20.00
Street trading in Grahamstown by Zanele Silo, Andile Tobi, Mphikeleli Mnguni and Valerie Møller (editor) (2001). 34pp. No. 5. Price: R20.00
“It takes a whole village to raise a child”: Youth development in Grahamstown by Charlotte van Hees (2000). 130pp. No. 4. Price: R20.00
Youth development in Grahamstown: A social map. A guide to organisations catering for youth development compiled by Charlotte van Hees (2000). 44pp. No. 3. Price: R18.00
West Bank Land and Restitution Claim: Social History Report by Landiswa Maqasho and Leslie Bank, with Busisiwe Mrawu (1999). 30pp. No.2. Price: R18.00
Experiencing space and place in Grahamstown’s informal settlements by Jan Coetzee (1999). 50pp. No. 1. Price: R20.00ISER R Report 16 FortuneMisfortune.pdf
