Ariane De Lannoy is Associate Professor/Chief Researcher at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at UCT, with over 20 years of research experience. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cape Town, in 2008.
Her work has had a consistent focus on youth and youth development in the complex context of post-apartheid South Africa, with extensions to work related to the rest of Africa. She has strong expertise in developing mixed method studies and leading multi-stakeholder projects.
Ariane is currently one of the project leads working on the development and implementation of a Basic Package of Support for young people who are not in Education, Employment and Training (NEET) – a programme developed on the basis of rigorous, longitudinal research and several rounds of stakeholder engagements; she also leads the work on the interactive Youth Explorer platform, that maps indicators on youth well-being alongside service provision at various geographical levels, as well as NT-SARS-based indicators that show the scale and distribution of formal, full-time equivalent employment in South Africa. Both projects are part of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention.