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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.
UCT ReseaRCh RepoRT '11