College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 41 Professors, Visiting Associate Professor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Professors of Practice, and Senior Research Associates). Postdoctoral Research Fellows (PDRFs) hosted at SARChI-ID and supervised by Prof Tregenna during 2020 were Dr Clement Mulamba, Dr Zhuqing Mao, Dr Hlalefang Khobai, Dr Jefferson Galetti, Dr Arpan Galetti, Dr Jonathan Jenner, Dr Milene Tessarin and Dr Paulo Morceiro. Several honours (4), master’s (8) and doctoral (12) students were hosted at SARChIID and supervised by Prof Tregenna and colleagues. We had graduations, albeit virtual, of both master’s and doctoral students during 2020. We are delighted to have such a large and dynamic team with related research interests, making for vibrant exchange and the development of ideas. evenTs SARChI-ID did not hold the usual number of events throughout the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but focused on co-hosting a few key events, which were held virtually. We co-hosted the TIPS Annual Forum, with the theme ‘Regional Industrial Development’. The keynote address was delivered by Prof Arkebe Oqubay, a Senior Minister in Ethiopia and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, who is also a widely published author and a Professor of Practice at SARChI-ID. Our PDRF Dr Zhuqing Mao sat on the Steering Committee alongside Prof Tregenna and several of our postdocs and postgraduate students presented their research at the conference. The conference was successful despite the new virtual format, with high-quality presentations from around the continent and the world, many of the papers having strong policy relevance. We also co-hosted ‘Rethinking Economics for Africa’ (REFA) 2020. The 2020 conference had four major streams: gender in economics; the natural environment in economics; labour and work in economics; and economic inequality. Our PDRFs Dr Milene Tessarin and Dr Paulo Morceiro sat on the Steering Committee along with Prof Tregenna, PDRF Dr Jonathan Jenner made a presentation, and several of our postgraduate students participated in the event. The virtual format of the event allowed for wider international presentation than in past events. researCh aCTiviTies Researchers at SARChI-ID produced many outputs during 2020, including from our postdocs and international research associates. Research topics included industrialisation and deindustrialisation, structural change, industrial policy, innovation, technological change, a range of dimensions of the 4IR, value chains, trade, learning and capabilities, spatial dimensions of development, financialisation, entrepreneurship and the economics of skills development. Prof Tregenna published several journal articles and book chapters. She also collaborated with Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Clement Mulamba flanked by a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Rajesh Many and Senior Research Associates, Rendani Mamphiswana and Karmen Naidoo.
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