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Prolific reSearcherS 2008/2009Professor Sarp AdaliSchool of Mechanical EngineeringAdali@ukzn.ac.zaPProfessor Sarp Adali is a Professor of solid mechanics at the School ofPMechanical Engineering which he joined in 1984. He was Head of thePSchool between 2000 and 2004 and is currently Director of the Centre forPComposite Materials and Structures. Professor Adali was an NRF A-ratedPresearcher between 1994 and 1998 and currently enjoys a B1 rating. PHis research areas are: composite materials and structures – design,optimisation and analysis; vibration damping using piezoelectric control;and the mechanics of carbon nanotubes and nano-composites.Since 1984 he has supervised or co-supervised 28 MSc studentsand 10 PhD students.Professor Adali has authored more than 150 journal papers andbook chapters, presented more than 120 papers at conferences andhas done a host of lectures at overseas universities. He is a memberof editorial boards for several respected mechanical engineeringpublications and co-edits others.Professor Adali has been a member of scientific boards at numerousinternational conferences and is a reviewer for a variety of respectedindustry publications.Professor Chris BallantineSchool of MusicBallanti@ukzn.ac.zaProlific Researchers2008/2009PPthe University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Fellow of the University, and anProfessor Christopher Ballantine is Professor of Music Emeritus atPthe University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Fellow of the University, and anPinternationally acclaimed researcher and writer on music. A graduatePof the universities of the Witwatersrand, Cambridge, and Cape Town,Phe occupied the LG Joel Chair of Music until the end of 2007.Professor Ballantine’s research explores the meaning of music, itssocial implications, and the forces that shape it. His publications tendto be both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, and cover a wide rangeof issues in the fields of musicology, the sociology of music, popularmusic studies, and ethnomusicology.The author of three books (Marabi Nights: Early South AfricanJazz and Vaudeville; Music and its Social Meanings; and TwentiethCentury Symphony), Professor Ballantine has published extensivelyin a range of leading scholarly journals (including Popular Music,Ethnomusicology,Journal of Ethnomusicology,African Music, Opera, Musical Quarterly,BritishJournal of Southern African Studies,Critical Arts, and Music Review). He has contributed chapters to booksand scholarly encyclopedias (including the New Grove Dictionaryof Music & Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and theContinuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World), and he serveson numerous international editorial boards. He was winner of the TopResearcher Award from the Centre for Science Development (HumanSciences Research Council) in 1996.Professor Ballantine’s current research principally concerns therelationships between music on the one hand, and ‘race’, gender andpolitics on the other, in the making of identity in post-apartheid SouthAfrica. It is supported by a long-term research grant from the NationalResearch Foundation.UKZN Research Report // 2008/2009 61