CSSR Organogram - Centre for Social Science Research

CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Promoting Evidence-based research and public policy
SSU
SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES UNIT
BEATRICE
CONRADIE
MARINE
DROUILLY
Beatrice is Director of the
SSU. Her research investigates
how agriculture functions
in a broader society, in
the presence of increasing
regulation. A second strand of
Beatrice’s research investigates
how farmers respond to
envi¬ronmental changes. A third
element brings in a localised
study of productivity growth to
explain why some regions of the
local farming economy are more
successful than other parts.
Marine is a French ecologist
with a passion for Africa
and Science. After working
on predator projects on 4
continents, she returned to
university to pursue her PhD
in wildlife conservation and
behavioural ecology. She is
particularly interested in
human-wildlife conflicts
which she thinks are the
biggest challenges wildlife
conservationists will have to face
in the 21st century.
Adam is working as a journalist
on GroundUp. He is covering
the Khayelitsha Commission,
an investigation into policing
in Khayelitsha. Before this he
has worked as a researcher
for various organisations on
different projects. He completed
his Masters in Criminology at
UCT in 2011.
ADAM ARMSTRONG
MIA GRANVIK
Abigail’s current research
focuses on the politics of welfare
policy reform in Zambia. She
is also interested in gender,
conflict resolution, peace and
security.
ABIGAIL KABANDULA
GABRIELLA
KELLY
Kezia is completing her Master’s
degree in Applied Economics.
She is particularly interested in
development economics and her
current area of research is youth
unemployment in Cape Town.
KEZIA LILENSTEIN
SINGUMBE
MUYEBA
Singumbe’s interest is in
institutions and the link
between property rights,
capital assets and development.
Particularly, he works on the
effects of government housing
subsidies in Cape Town and the
privatization of public housing
in Lusaka (Zambia). He is
also examining measures of
institutional capital. Singumbe
is further involved in examining
the politics of social protection
policies in Zambia.
WESLEY
MARAIRE
ROBIN SMAILL
Mia completed a BA in
Sociology and Social
Anthropology at the University
of Basel, Switzerland, and
then a MPhil in Development
Studies at UCT in 2013.
Since working with a Swedish
development organisation in
Kenya she has been working as
a junior research officer on the
‘Legislating and Implementing
Welfare Policy Reforms’ project
at the CSSR, covering Lesotho
and Swaziland.
INGE CONRADIE
SAM HAMER
Gabriella’s research interests
include socio-economic rights
and justice issues and social
protection policy and she is
currently undertaking a PhD
in Sociology at UCT, focusing
on the South African Disability
Grant. Her other interests
include the Child Support Grant
and worked as a research intern
at the Alliance for Children’s
Entitlement to Social Security in
ADAIAH
2012.
Wesley holds an Honours
degree in Industrial Sociology
and is completing a Masters in
Labour Law at UCT. He was
awarded a Scholarship in 2013
to complete a Working Paper
surveying the attitudes held by
workers in the clothing industry
towards four key issues: tradeoff between regularly negotiated
wage increases and job security;
production incentive systems;
informal homeworking; and
cooperatives.
Robin is completing a Master’s
degree in Sociology at UCT
with his dissertation testing
Life History Theory (LHT)
in the context of Cape Town.
LHT understands human
behaviour as an adaption to
environmental circumstances,
social and physical, so as to
optimise biological outcomes. It
would seem that the years of life
before school are important in
determining life strategy or a life
path.
Inge received a BA in Value
and Policy Studies, majoring in
Economics and Organisational
Decision-Making, from
Stellenbosch in 2012. Currently
she is completing her Honours
in Economics at the University
of Cape Town, with her thesis
on the topic: The Livelihoods
and Lives of Agricultural
Casual Workers in Laingsburg:
Why do they ‘choose’ to stay.
Sam commenced his work as a
research assistant under Prof.
Jeremy Seekings in February
of 2014. He is currently
researching projects whose
subjects span a wide array of
issues in the realms of welfare
policy, politics, and economic
development. He is a 2013
graduate of Yale University,
where he majored in History,
and hails from Chicago.
JEREMY SEEKINGS
ADMIN
Thobani is part of the Cape Area
Panel Study team. His primary
responsibilities are monitoring
and evaluation, fieldwork
(face to face and telephonic
interviews) and data cleaning.
He assists with other research
projects and CSSR office
administration.
Nondumiso currently holds
a Diploma in Education and
serves as the CSSR Senior
Secretary and Receptionist.
NONDUMISO HLWELE
THERESA ALFAROVELCAMP
ELIZABETH
GUMMERSON
Heide is Executive Director
of the International Social
Science Council (ISSC), based
at UNESCO in Paris, France.
She has a research background
in science policy studies, the
international governance
of science, and research
evaluation.
HEIDE HACKMANN
KEVIN
CELESTE KRIEL
Celeste is a PhD student in
Economics at UCT, and a
research associate at the CSSR.
Her current work looks at the
impact of antiretroviral therapy
on labour force participation.
Celeste is a deputy director
of research in the provincial
department of economic
development and tourism.
Previously she worked as a
researcher for ASRU.
THOPANI NCAPAI
NICOLI
NATTRASS
SAMUEL TELZAK
Collette holds a PhD in Politics
from the University of Cape
Town. She has previously
worked at the Institute for
Kevin’s research at the CSSR
Security Studies, Idasa and
focuses on the post-apartheid
as an elections analyst for the
history of social grants and their
South African Broadcasting
use of biometric identification.
Corporation during elections.
He is also a PhD student in
Collette’s postdoctoral
research examines the effects
the Program in Anthropology
of political intermediation
& History at the University of
on voter behaviour in two
Michigan.
African national and
COLLETTE SCHULZ-South
provincial elections using
Comparative National
DONOVAN
HERZENBERG the
Elections Project data series.
Claudia and Dirk both hold
PhDs in Social Development
from UWC. Together they
coordinated the Basic Income
Grant (BIG) Coalition and the
worldwide first BIG Pilot Project
in Namibia. Their research
interests are Economic security,
social security, poverty, HIVAIDS, alternative economic
DIRK models, participatory action
research and micro-simulation.
TAKWANISA
MACHEMEDZE
Shana is the Program Manager
for Francophone Africa of the
African Legislatures Project at
UCT.
She is a PhD student in
comparative politics at New
York University and also serves
as a consultant, specialising in
transparency, accountability and
parliamentary development.
SHANA WARREN
Nicoli Nattrass is Director
of ASRU. She works on:
unemployment, AIDS
and economic policy in
South Africa; the politicaleconomy of the international
antiretroviral treatment
rollout; the social determinants
of AIDS denialism and
conspiracy theory and the
challenges these pose for
sexual behaviour and scientific
medicine.
Eduard holds a PhD from UCT
on national and transnational
AIDS activism focusing on
South Africa and Uganda.
Formerly, he worked for
DataFirst. He is now a postdoctoral research fellow,
working on welfare policymaking. He also also runs
the CSSR’s website. He has a
background in philosophy
and retains a strong interest in
political philosophy.
Takwanisa is a PhD student
whose research interests focus
on sexual risk behavior and its
determinants. Current research
explores the possible influences
of HIV/AIDS-related stigma on
sexual risk behavior.
Nathan is the editor of
GroundUp and the author of
Debunking Delusions. His
research interests include the
epidemiology of HIV and TB.
DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA RESEARCH UNIT
ROBERT MATTES
NATHAN GEFFEN
REBECCA HODES
Rebecca is the principal
investigator of the ‘Mzantsi
Wakho’ study and author of
Broadcasting the Pandemic:
HIV on South African
Television. Her D.Phil was in
the History of Medicine, and
her current historical research
focuses on science, race and sex
in South African history. She
is a 2013 – 2014 fellow of the
American Council of Learned
Societies’ African Humanities
Program.
ANNABELLE
WIENAND
Annabelle is a doctoral student.
Her thesis is focused on the
different aesthetic, political and
philosophical strategies used by
contemporary South African
photographers to represent the
HIV epidemic. The dissertation
is also concerned with the
history of photography in Africa,
the social and political history of
HIV/AIDS in South Africa and
the contexts where photographs
are published.
FaSRU
FAMILY AND SOCIETY RESEARCH UNIT
CLAUDIA &
HAARMANN
SHAHEEN
MOZAFFAR
DARU
AIDS AND SOCIETY RESEARCH UNIT
REBECCA
MAUGHAN-BROWN
Shaheen is a Professor of
Political Science and Research
Associate at the Centre of
Legislative Studies, Bridgewater
State University in Bridgewater,
Massachusetts. His research
focuses on the comparative
analysis of electoral systems,
party systems, legislatures,
politics and ethnicity, and
democracy in Islam emerging
African democracies and
elsewhere.
Previously, Liz administered
the Centre for the Study of
African Economies (CSAE) at
Oxford University and worked
for various NGOs in economic
and social development in
southern Africa. Currently, Liz
coordinates research on various
CSSR projects including the
African Legislatures Project
(ALP) and Afrobarometer. A
Licentiate of Trinity College,
London (Clarinet Teacher’s
Diploma) Liz plays in
Windworx, Cape Town.
ELIZABETH
WELSH
ASRU
Rebecca is working on the
Imitation Games project,
examining race and social
fluency. She has a Master’s
Degree in Social Work and
Public Health, from Tulane
University. Previously, Rebecca
directed the department of
Student Health Education at Yale
University. She currently works
for Power-free Education and
Technology, a Cape Town-based
NGO.
Samuel graduated from Yale
University in May 2013 and is
currently pursuing a Research
Master’s on perceptions of
social mobility and economic
inequality with support from a
Fox International Fellowship.
ELENA MOORE
PEDRO WOLF
Pedro is a Senior Lecturer in
the CSSR and Department
of Psychology. His research
interests include evolutionary
psychology, and research
methods. While working with
the CSSR, he aims to expand the
use of evolution as a metatheory
in the broader social
sciences and improve UCT’s
methodological capabilities
AMY KENNEDY
ASSOCIATE RESEARCH FELLOWS
Elizabeth has a PhD from
Princeton and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the
CSSR from 2012-2013. She
is now back in the USA but
continues to work on CSSR
projects, including research on
pverty, health and inequality.
Rajen is a Senior Research Fellow
for the CSSR, a Sociology Professor
and is also based at the UCT
Graduate School of Development
Policy and Practice. He holds a
PhD from UCLA. His interests
include performance measurement
in the health sector, specifically
developing and validating process
and outcome measures in substance
abuse treatment programmes,
examining clinical co-morbidity
in People Living with HIV/AIDS
and investigating the impact of
substance abuse on adherence to
ARV regimens.
Amy is the Working Paper
editor for the CSSR. She is
currently pursuing an Honours
degree in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics at UCT.
MARIUS COQUI
EDUARD GREBE
Theresa is a historian, on
extended leave from her
position at Sonoma State
University in California. She has
a strong interest in migration.
Her published work includes a
book on migrants into Mexico
from the Middle East.
RAJEN
GOVENDER
Marius is the financial officer at the CSSR. He is currently doing
undergraduate coursework in chemistry.
Adaiah is studying for
a masters in economic
development, having
completed an honours degree
in psychology. She is currently
working for the CSSR on
a project involving the
interactions between mental
health and unemployment.
LILENSTEIN
GENERAL
Jeremy Seekings is Director
of the CSSR. He runs research
projects combining quantitative
and qualitative data. His own
research currently covers aspects
of race, class and everyday life
in contemporary South Africa
and elsewhere, as well as the
comparative politics of social
policy-making across the global
South.
Elena is Director of the FaSRU
and a Senior Research Fellow.
Her interests lie in the field of
personal life, kinship, gender,
intergenerational relations,
divorce, family law and policy,
feminist theories, biographical
methods and mixed methods.
She is currently working on a
biographical study on ‘Personal
Life and Relationships in South
Africa’ and is also involved in a
socio-legal study investigating
the operations of reformed
customary law in practice.
Nicole has been involved in
research with the African
Gender Institute and the School
of Public Health at UCT. Her
research interests centre on
issues relating to women.
Currently positioned more
broadly in the Sociology of
birth, her research focuses on
home birth in the greater Cape
Town area. As a mother of
two, she is especially interested
NICOLE MIRIAM in narrativity and the means
through which we speak of and
DANIELS
author our human experiences.
Kirsty holds an Honours degree
in Sociology from UCT. She
is currently undertaking a
Master’s degree in Sociology
at UCT, through coursework
and dissertation. She has been
involved in a National Research
Foundation Chair in Customary
Law Research Project which
aimed to understand the
operation of reformed customary
marriage, divorce and succession
laws in practice.
KIRSTY BUTTON
STANFORD
MAHATI
Stanford is a migration researcher
for the CSSR. He is conducting
research on the project on “the
functioning and consequences
of transnational child raising
arrangements in South and North:
Angolan, Nigerian and Ghanaian
migrant parents living in South
Africa and the Netherlands”. He
has worked in South Africa and
Zimbabwe for over ten years
collecting and analysing data. An
Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius “Settling
Into Motion” Fellow, he specialized
in the field of childhood studies and
child migration.
LINDISWA JAN
CHANTAL MILNE
Isaac is a researcher and
doctoral student in the CSSR,
working on variations in social
assistance programmes for
families and children in selected
southern African countries. His
thesis is an analysis of why some
countries in this region make
social protection provision for
children and adults, and others
not.
ISAAC CHINYOKA
ANYA
JAMY FELTON
Anya is a Masters graduate
in Development Studies.
Her dissertation explored
conceptions of parenting
through investigating informal
foster arrangements for children
living in a large township as
compared to other residential
care settings found in South
Africa in terms of financial,
legal and social characteristics.
She collected life-history and
attitudinal data from children
and their foster parents using a
WOOLLEY range of ethnographic tools.
Robert Mattes is Professor of
Political Studies and Director
of the Democracy in Africa
Research Unit at the University
of Cape Town. He is also a
co-founder and co-Director of
the Afrobarometer, a regular
survey of public opinion in 18
African countries. His research
has focused on the development
of democratic attitudes and
practices in South Africa and
across the continent.
Jamy is a research assistant at
DARU and Master’s student in
Political Studies at UCT. Her
thesis topic is titled “Public
Evaluations of the South
African Presidents”. She is
working on the Cape Area
Surveys. Her research interests
include presidential popularity,
voting behaviour, and other
forms of political/social
attitudes.
Lindiswa is a Masters candidate
in Practical Anthropology
at UCT. She is currently a
Research Assistant for the
African Legislatures Project at
the CSSR. She has experience in
community development, social
and development activism and
volunteering, focusing on youth
development through arts and
cultural activities. She started a
community events management
initiative that focused on youth
development programmes
organisation and coordination.
Chantal is a junior research
fellow at the CSSR. She holds a
Master’s degree in Public Affairs
and Administration from UCT.
Chantal’s primary research
interests include democratic
public administration and
public administration theory.
She is currently the programme
manager in DARU on the
Open Society Monitory Index
and part-time lecturer in the
Department of Political Studies.
Kevin holds a PhD in
Population and Public Affairs
from Princeton University and
was a post-doctoral research
fellow in the CSSR from 20122013. He is now back in the
USA but continues to work on
CSSR projects, particularly on
the 2012 Cape Area Study of
democracy education in Cape
Town secondary schools.
KEVIN O’NEIL
MAXINE RUBIN
Maxine holds an Honours
degree in Justice and
Transformation from UCT.
Her research interests include:
transformation policies; social
and distributive justice; political
ethics and thought; and postconflict reconstruction and
development. She will be
pursuing her MA in “Postwar Recovery Studies” at the
University of York. She has been
working on Module II (formal
structures and mechanisms of 17
African parliaments) of the ALP
for DARU.
CARMEN ALPIN
Carmen joined the CSSR in
2013 as the Afrobarometer
Network Data Manager. Prior
to this, she worked at Idasa in
the same capacity. A Spanish
national, she graduated in Social
Psychology at the Autonomous
University of Barcelona and
holds an MSc in Development
Management as well as an
MSc in Industrial Relations &
Personnel Management (LSE).
DEAN HOROWITZ
Dean holds a degree
in Human Resource
Management from UCT. He
has worked for organizations,
start-ups and companies on
their online media focusing
on social media. He is
currently studying Political
Communication Honours at
UCT focusing on social media
and opposition parties. He is
currently working on the SA
National Elections Project
for DARU, creating a central
database for all election
studies in SA.
SOHYEON KIM
Sohyeon is a Master’s candidate
in Political Studies at UCT.
She holds a BA in Political
Science and Economics
from Sookmyung Women’s
University in Seoul, South
Korea. Her thesis topic is
the impact of foreign civil
society assistance on the level
of civic participation in SubSaharan Africa. At DARU,
she is working on the African
Legislatures Project.
SIHLE
NONTSHOKWENI
SAMANATHA
RICHMOND
CARLOS SHENGA
Sihle is studying Political
Science Masters at UCT,
focusing on democracy and
education. Her dissertation
looks at the extent to which
race and school culture impacts
educational expectations in
the Western Cape. Sihle is a
research assistant in DARU
working on the Cape Area
Study dataset.
Samantha completed both
her Honours and Master’s
dissertations with Professor
Mattes in DARU. Her areas
of research interest include
democracy, citizenship
and education.” She is the
Operations Manager for the
Afrobarometer Network’s
Capacity Building Programme
and a DARU Research Fellow.
Carlos is a Ph.D. candidate in
Political Studies at UCT. He has
been conducting research for
the ALP and collaborating with
CNEP (Comparative National
Election Project), CSES
(Comparative Study of Electoral
Systems) and Afrobarometer
in Mozambique. His thesis
compares Mozambican and
African legislatures by focusing
on legislative recruitment,
development, performance and
legitimacy.