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UCT Research Report '11
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pedagogics in higher education; urbanisation, social
dynamics and inequality; the nature of sociology; issues in
social research methods; globalization, it’s meaning and
impacts.
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza’s NRF Research Chair is now
in its fourth year of research activity and development.
Professor Jeremy Seekings continues to serve as co-editor
of the “International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research” published in Oxford; as does A/Professor
Melissa Steyn, as an associate editor of the “Journal of
International and Intercultural Communication”.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
4
Associate Professors
3
Senior Lecturers
5
Lecturers
2
Research Staff
1
Admin and Clerical Staff
3
Total
18
Students
Doctoral
24
Master’s
22
Honours
19
Undergraduates
2680
Total
2745
Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor David Cooper
Research development in higher education; students
in the South African higher education system; issues of
engaged scholarships at universities.
Professor Owen Crankshaw
Racial and class divisions; sociology of housing and
labour markets and the relationship between urbanisation,
housing and employment.
Dr Jacques de Wet
Senior Lecturer; methodological issues in quantitative
and qualitative research; social change and identities in
post-Apartheid South Africa; people-centred development
theory and practice.
Dr Zimitri Erasmus
Senior Lecturer; understanding and disrupting ‘race’,
racism(s), and the idea of ‘mixed race’; creolisation; and
qualitative methods.
Dr Johann de V. Graaff
Senior lecturer; development theory; teaching sociology;
rural education.
Dr Jonathan Grossman
Senior lecturer; development of workers’ movement;
Marxist theory and practice.
Dr Judith Head
Senior lecturer; Poverty, inequality & public health; HIV/
AIDS in SA & Brazil.
Emeritus Associate Professor Ken Jubber
Evolutionary theory; social theory; history of sociology,
philosophy of sociological knowledge.
Associate Professor David Lincoln
International division of labour; plantation agriculture;
development.
Emeritus Professor Johann Maree
Emeritus; Industrial relations and industrial strategy; worker
participation: skills development.
Dr Frank Matose
Senior Lecturer; Natural resource commons;
co-management; biodiversity management and rural
livelihoods; land reform and biodiversity conservation;
Southern Africa.
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza
Rural development; traditional authorities; land rights;
rural/urban linkages; land and the struggle against poverty.
Dr Amrita Pande
Globalization; gendered bodies and gendered work
spaces; new reproductive technologies and women’s
movement in the Global South.
Professor Jeremy Seekings
Political sociology; unemployment; social stratification &
race; public policy; social movement; urban sociology.
Professor Ari Sitas
Historical forms of deviance and social action; labour
and livelihoods; industrialisation and work challenges in
emerging powers; reconciliation and trauma; the labour
movement in South Africa; migrant and marginal forms
of labour.
Associate Professor Melissa Steyn
Whiteness; diversity and otherness; social identities;
intercultural communication; social transformation.