DATE |
INSTITUTION |
PROJECT NAME |
FIELD |
1998/9 |
Environmental Affairs, Limpopo Province |
Tree survey on the banks of Limpopo river |
Ecology |
1999/2000 |
Vaaltriangle Technikon |
Psychometric testing of first year students |
Psychometrics |
2002-2005 |
North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) |
Psychometric testing of first year students and selection of Pharmacy students |
Psychometrics |
2002 |
Conservation Services, Northern Cape Province |
Survey on tourists at nature parks |
Tourism |
2004 |
IRCA (Pty) Ltd |
Evaluation of safety at mines |
Industrial Psychology |
2000-2005 |
EDUTRADIS CC |
Evaluation of safety programme sand perceptions of employees at cement factories |
Industrial Psychology |
2005 |
MEC and Language Committee of North-West Province |
Extraction of Language statistics from 2001 census data and interpretation |
Demography |
2005 |
North-West Province Education department |
An survey to determine the health status of teachers and there habits which are stress related. |
Questionnaire survey |
2007 |
UNESCO |
Harassment of school learners |
Questionnaire survey |
2007 |
INVERITAS GLOBAL HOLDINGS (PTY)LTD |
Determining reliability and validity of standardised questionnaire regarding job safety. |
Industrial Psychology |
Examples of projects in the health sciences in which we have been involved in over the past decade:
• About 50 bioavailability and bio-equivalence studies for pharmaceutical firms applying for registration of Medicine at regularity authorities.
• The THUSA Project, together with the School for Physiology and Nutrition of the PU for CHE (this is an RDP-oriented project in the Northwest Province).
• Stress project of the School for Physiology and Nutrition of the PU vir CHE.
• VIGHOR Project together with the School for Biokinetics, Recreation and Sports Sciences.
• Anglo Gold Health Services: Development of data basis of patient information by cleaning the data. Statistical analysis on the data.
• Ackermann Laboratories: Analysis of clinical trials where the efficiency of new anti-perspirant products were determined.
• Bosvet Consultants CC: Analysis of animal trials to determine anti-worm products' efficiency.
• CSIR Miningtek: Determining the relationship between body temperature and health status of male and female mine workers.
• Dr. A Gill, Ophthalmologist, Klerksdorp: Relationships between measurements of optical coherence tomography (OCT) of eye diseases.
• Biozetika Agri-source (Pty)Ltd: Comparison between two products which enhance milk production in cows.
• Pikto Designing Engineers CC for Varori International: Comparison of new intravenous infusion system with standard systems.
• POWIRS-project of Fakulty of Health Sciences: measuring the physiological en psychological aspects of a group of women of the North-West Province.
• Varichem Pharmaceuticals, Harare: the evaluation of clinical and laboratory outcomes of patients who were administered with a 3-in-1 fixed dose combination of generic Nevirapine, Lamivudine and Stavudine. A quality control analyses on these products were also done.
• School of Pharmacy, North-West University – Senzani clinical trial, where deodorants were compared in subjects.
• SASOL Technology (PTY) LTD – Industrial physiological study.
• Pharmacy Board in collaboration with School of Pharmacy, NW University: Study to determine the activity time of procedures (services) for which pharmacists may levy a fee.