Social Surveys Unit's Researchers
Professor Jeremy Seekings (of UCT's Departments of Political Studies and Sociology) is the Director of the Social Surveys Unit.
In part of 2002, Dr Owen Crankshaw served as Acting Director of the Unit, and continued his research on the changing social structure of Johannesburg. His research was published as Working Paper no. 15 and 20.
Dr Margo Russell has been a part-time research fellow in the CSSR. She has been conducting research on families and households in Southern Africa, and has written three working papers for the CSSR.
Rachel Bray has been a part-time research fellow in the CSSR, conducting research on children. She is primarily responsible for the research project on Growing Up in the New South Africa. She has written three working papers for the CSSR.
Dr Frederik (Frikkie) Booysen (University of the Free State) was a visiting research fellow in the second half of 2003. Dr Booysen runs a panel study of households in two parts of the Free State Province, comparing changes in households affected by AIDS with a control group. Whilst in the Unit, Dr Booysen wrote two working papers. WP no.56 examined how the social safety net of welfare grants provides for HIV-affected households. WP no.57 examined the relationships between migration and household composition.
Dr Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala (University of Natal) was briefly in the CSSR in 2003, discussing her recent work on sexual behaviour and AIDS in Durban. Besides giving a series of lectures, she presented a seminar on the commodification of everyday sexual relationships in Durban, which was published as WP no.68.
Cecil Mlatsheni (from UCT's School of Economics) was a research fellow for parts of 2003 and 2004. In each year he was relieved of some of his teaching responsibilities in order to work on the 2004 Wave 1B youth employment/unemployment module for the Cape Area Panel Study.
Other research fellows in the SSU in 2004 have included Sten Dieden, Dr Lori Hill, Dr Andries du Toit, and Dr Susan Levine. Sten Dieden has been working on household structure and income. Lori Hill's work is on schooling, using data from the Cape Area Panel Study. Drs du Toit and Levine conduct research on farms and farmworkers in the Western Cape. Their research falls into the Unit's project on Social and Economic Change in the Rural Western Cape.
The SSU has also had a series of junior research fellows.
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