Mentorship and training are key to enhancing skills, fostering collaboration, increasing research and data uptake, strengthening institutions, and empowering the next generation of scholars, and form a key component of the Siyaphambili initiative.
In the past, we have partnered with DataFirst to offer training in longitudinal data management and analysis using the South African National Income Dynamics Study. Under our project funded by G2LM|LIC, we plan to extend this with content designed around the use of the Ghanaian Socioeconomic Panel Survey.
A number of graduate students have been supervised by members of the team. Browse their theses below:
Whitelaw, E. (2023). Post-school education in an unequal society. PhD thesis. Faculty of Commerce, School of Economics, University of Cape Town.
Culligan, S. (2022). Using Census, Institutional and Geospatial Data to Estimate the Socio-Economic Profile of Post-School Students by Institutional Type. Master’s thesis. Faculty of Commerce, School of Economics, University of Cape Town.
Kahn, A. (2020). Analysing the role of language in the context of education, employment and income in South Africa. PhD thesis. Faculty of Commerce, School of Economics, University of Cape Town.
Smith, L. (2012). The effect of selected academic development programmes on the academic performance of academic development students at a South African university: An empirical study. PhD thesis. Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. University of Cape Town.
If you are interested in developing your dissertation within any of our projects or themes, please email us nicola.branson@uct.ac.za or emma.whitelaw@uct.ac.za.