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Research Interests and Funding

Research Interests

  • South African post-apartheid urban transformation

  • Contemporary Indian urban processes of participation and governance

  • Fear and (in)security in cities

  • Poverty and urban governance

  • Urban housing and land (for low- and high-income households)

  • Migration from Southern Africa to the UK

  • Urban segregation and territorialisation

    • Research Funding

    • Centre for the Study of International Governance (CSIG), University of Loughborough grant to co-organise seminar: South African migration to the UK, with Dr Daniel Conway (2010)
    • Royal Geographical Society 30th International Geographical Congress Award: to participate in Society of South African Geographers conference (2009)

    • British Academy Small Research Grant: 'Embedded in the city? Participation and urban governance for low-income households in Cape Town' (2009-2010)

    • British Council Researcher Exchange Programme (RXP) to Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi, India: 'The voices of the poor in urban governance: an India-South Africa comparison' (2009)

    • Researcher for international research project: 'The voice of city dwellers in urban governance. Participation, mobilisation and local democracy - comparing Indian/South African debates', led by Dr Claire Benit-Gbaffou (University of Witwatersrand), Dr Marie-Helene Zerah (CSH, Delhi); Dr Stephanie Tawa-Lama Rewal (CSH, Delhi) (2009-2011) 

    • Royal Geographical Society Small Research Grant: ‘The voices of the poor in urban governance: overlapping spaces of community-level political participation in South Africa’ (2008-09)

    • Researcher for international research project: ‘Spaces of political mobilisation and relationships between residents and local government in South African cities’, funded by ‘Institut de Recherche pour le Développement’, led by Dr Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, University of Witwatersrand (2008-2011)

    • Researcher for international research project: ‘Territorialization and Urban Space in Large Cities: A North-South Comparison’ led by Prof Sylvy Jaglin, ENPC, University of Paris XIII (2005-2007)

    • Leverhulme Trust post-doctoral ‘Study Abroad Studentship’: Diversity and integration in post-apartheid urban South Africa, held at University of Cape Town (2006-2007)

    • ESRC +3 PhD Studentship held at University of Oxford (2002-2005)

    • Linacre College (University of Oxford) Domus Fellowship (2003-2005)

    • International Geographical Union 2004 Conference bursary (2004)

    • ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit to University of Cape Town (Oct – Dec 2003)