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SALDRU Researcher Wins UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award

31st Oct 20181st Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU Researcher, Dr Brendan Maughan-Brown, received a UCT College of Fellows Young Researcher Award on 10 October 2018. According to UCT news, the

ETCP Hosts Tobacco Control Stakeholder Engagement Event

31st Oct 201816th Nov 2018Fazila Farouk

A key aim of the stakeholder meeting was to bring together key parties in tobacco control – from academia, civil society and policy makers to discuss the current tobacco control landscape in sub-Saharan Africa (and South Africa in particular) to forge a way forward.

De Lannoy Appointed to Supervisory Board of ANTHUSIA

27th Sep 201828th Sep 2018Fazila Farouk

Chief Researcher at SALDRU, A/Prof. Ariane De Lannoy, has been appointed to the supervisory board of ANTHUSIA. ANTHUSIA is a multi-disciplinary research project in the Anthropology of Human Security in Africa conducted by a consortium of four universities in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Norway.

SALDRU at the UNU-WIDER Conference in Helsinki

26th Sep 201826th Sep 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU’s director, Prof. Murray Leibbrandt, acting director, Prof. Vimal Ranchhod and SALDRU research associate, Prof. Lawrence Edwards, attended the UNU-WIDER conference titled, Think

New study on socio-economic effects and costs of incomplete secondary education

30th Aug 201830th Sep 2021Fazila Farouk

The DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, hosted at Wits University, awarded a seed grant to SALDRU to collaborate on a study into the longer-term socio-economic effects and costs of incomplete secondary education.

SALDRU Hosts Annual General Meeting

17th Aug 201830th Aug 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU hosted its AGM on 8 August. Prof. Murray Leibbrandt presented the director’s report, followed by Tania Hendricks who reported on the unit’s finances and Fazila Farouk who covered SALDRU’s communications portfolio. This was followed by updates from representatives of SALDRU's projects.

Murray Leibbrandt goes on sabbatical leave

17th Aug 201830th Aug 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU’s director, Prof. Murray Leibbrandt, is on sabbatical leave for a year from August 2018 to end July 2019. He is spending his academic leave in the U.S., where he is currently based at Yale University until the end May 2019. Thereafter, he visits the University of Michigan until the end of June 2019.

When are wage jobs not worth the trouble for township youth?

26th Jul 201817th Aug 2018Fazila Farouk

It's argued that the pathway out of poverty is through a paying job. But Rocco Zizzamia's research finds that poor urban youth are disproportionately likely to turn down or quit jobs. This finding suggests that jobs may not always deliver the benefits we hope they will.

Congratulations on your promotion, Professor Ranchhod!

30th Jun 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU is very pleased to announce that Vimal Ranchhod, SALDRU’s Deputy Director, has been promoted to full Professor with effect from July 1st, 2018. Ranchhod joined SALDRU as a post-doctoral fellow in 2008, after graduating with a PhD from the University of Michigan in the USA.

How are UCT students funding their studies?

29th Jun 201828th Oct 2021Fazila Farouk

Speaking at the 2018 Siyamphumelela Conference, a three-day event that took place in Johannesburg in June, SALDRU’s Dr. Nicola Branson presented preliminary findings from a study that examines the sources of funding for students at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The study was initiated in response to the wave of 'Fees Must Fall' students’ protests in 2015.