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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please see below the advert for a masters bursary at Stellenbosch University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Masters Bursary , Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">:
Use of Social GIS and participatory mapping to facilitate an ethics-based approach to Adaptive Collaborative Water Governance on the Cape Flats Aquifer: A case study in the Philippi Horticultural Area</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Be part of an exciting proactive project to use Geoinformatics to support a community based project to achieve multi-stakeholder agreement on water issues in the
Phillipi Horticultural Area (PHA). The broader project looks at The Ethics of Adaptive Collaborative Water Governance on the Cape Flats Aquifer: A case study in the Philippi Horticultural Area (Water Research Commission, WRC Project Number : 2020/2021-00097).
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">In order to achieve equitable and ethical access to water, the complexities of water governance need to be addressed. This involves aligning objectives and technically manageable resources (natural and
otherwise) with subjective understandings of reality informed by the historical and geographic context in which water governance needs to occur. Today, challenges to water governance are compounded by growing climate uncertainty; a historical reliance on top-down
or control oriented implementation of water governance policy; and strategies which are often unsuccessful or derailed because of a lack of connection and mutual understanding between the stakeholders, the government, and the resource being governed.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), a peri-urban agricultural enclave within the confines of the urban sprawl on the Cape Flats, is sustained
by the Cape Flats Aquifer. The Cape Flats Aquifer (CFA) is an unconfined sand aquifer underlying the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. In the past the CFA was recharged by runoff to the Cape Flats filtered through rivers, marshes and sand dunes. Urban expansion
over the aquifer, however, has now had a significant impact on the hydrological system.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Since the recent drought, the CFA is being developed by the City of Cape Town (CoCT) as a source for potable supply. In addition, during periods of high rainfall intensity, the shallow
water table in the PHA and misused surface drainage systems is a cause of flooding, with the greatest impacts experienced in lower income areas. The polluted and poorly maintained channels intended to guide floodwaters and reduce damage to surrounding agricultural
land are both a resource in the PHA and a hazard which requires proper management. The Stellenbosch University Water Institute conducted an ethics survey on water issues in the PHA. The research study, that was completed early this year, lead to the creation
of the PHA People's Forum - one of the first collaborative stakeholder forums in the PHA.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The research of the advertised project will start with water pollution
workshops with the stakeholders of the newly formed Intergovernmental forum and PHA
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">People's Forum
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">where water pollution information will be collected and sites of water pollution identified.
<b>This will be mapped using GIS and existing water quality data. </b>This is to be followed by
<b>workshops that analyse the potential areas of contamination and flooding, developing a series of both physical, social and environmental indicators, to measure improved environmental and better social conditions of communities living in the PHA</b>. Given
the collaborative and context-dependent nature of the process, the exact nature of these indicators can only be determined after the various governmental, non-governmental, community and commercial role-players have interacted with the proposed community-based
water monitoring plan regularly and continuously. However, it is highly likely given recent concerns on illegal dumping in the canals and the proliferation of boreholes in the PHA that these two issues will form an integral part of the research process.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">advertised masters project
</span>will </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1. participate in workshops to collaboratively identify data to be mapped by the student and communities of issues related to pollution sources, as well as indicators of success of resolving
the issues;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2. <b>
design a data capture </b>approach that uses cellphone technology, such as Kobo Toolbox;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3. <b>
design a web-enabled tool </b>and automated analyses that produces preliminary analysis and monitoring of the collected data, such as maps and graphs of dumping sites, water quality, and other issues emanating from the workshops,
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">4. design a data flow procedure from data collected on cellphones to this website facility;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5. run a test of whether the indicators are being viewed by target users, (affecting behaviour – might be a separate study, e.g. of how have ethics/core values around water and land
changed) and whether it is impacting action by CoCT Storm Water Management (for instance). Develop participatory GIS approaches and tools.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Project Duration: The duration of the project is 2 years commencing from
<b>1 September 2020</b>. The masters will be based in Stellenbosch University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Stellenbosch University Water Institute, under the supervision of A/Prof Helen de Klerk, Dr Zahn Munch, and Dr Leanne
Seeliger.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bursary value:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<b><span style="color:black">R160 000 </span></b><span style="color:black">available in
<b>8 instalments </b>payable on <b>specific deliverables </b>over the <b>two years</b>,
<b>including papers submitted for publication</b>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Eligibility: Possession of a completed Honours (BSc or BA) is essential for the registration of a
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">MSc/MA Geoinformatics/Environmental Studies </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">(please see the Department of Geography
and Environmental Studies admission guidelines here <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww0.sun.ac.za%2Fgeography%2Fprogrammes-courses%2Fmasters%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cdc22cabed2374479e19008d833b1eccb%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C637316186563551295&sdata=sxzdryCfuWHm9ngLgBNmsjwEwJkqho96tfnW4oh13fA%3D&reserved=0">
https://www0.sun.ac.za/geography/programmes-courses/masters/</a>). <span style="background:white">
Advanced <b>geoinformatics </b>skills is required. E</span>xperience in <b>web-based GIS</b> tools if preferable. Experience of or a demonstrated interest in
<b>participatory research</b> is highly advantageous. In accordance <span style="background:white">
with WRC policy, preference will be given to suitably qualified South African</span> nationals, especially from designated groups, but candidates from outside South Africa are also encouraged to apply if they possess relevant skills</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Applications must include the following, combined into a single pdf:
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A motivating letter outlining your suitability, skills and interests, including your ideas for approaching the research and which aspects of the project you are particularly interested in. Your curriculum vitae including details of two contactable academic
references; and a copy of your academic record.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Applications must be submitted electronically to Helen de Klerk (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:hdeklerk@sun.ac.za" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">hdeklerk@sun.ac.za</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">)
by no later than <b><u>15 August 2020</u></b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dr Zahn Münch | PhD | Pr. Sci. Nat. 400332/15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Lecturer: Department Geography and Environmental Studies |
<i>Lektor: Departement Geografie en Omgewingstudie</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Programme coordinator: BSc Geoinformatics |
<i>Program koördineerder: BSc Geoinformatika</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
<i>Fakulteit Lettere en Sosiale Wetenskappe</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">e: <a href="mailto:zmunch@sun.ac.za">
<span style="color:#0563C1">zmunch@sun.ac.za</span></a> | t: +27 21 808 9101 | a: Chamber of Mines Building, Ryneveld Street |
<i>Kamer van Mynwese Gebou, Ryneveldstraat</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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