Professor Melissa Steyn will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ from 2014 to 2017.

Visiting Fellow and Host

Fellow: Professor Melissa Steyn, South African National Research Chair in Critical Diversity Studies; Director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS), University of Witwatersrand

Host: Professor Pauline Leonard, Professor of Sociology and Chair of ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, Co-Director of the Work Futures University Strategic Research Group

Aims of the collaboration

• To explore synergies for postgraduate collaboration and training, and in particular developing doctoral researcher and Early Career Researcher capacity.
• Joint research project on changing work contexts in South Africa.
• Exploration of changing work contexts across a range of BRICS countries.

Fellowship activities in 2015

• First Fellowship visit to Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖÆåÅÆ_Ìì·¢ÓéÀÖAPP-¹ÙÍø|ÏÂÔØ, January 2015
• Social Sciences Distinguished Lecture:? ?¡®Apartheid supporters and other extinct species¡¯?
  Link to the lecture

Fellowship activities in 2016

• Next visit expected April 2016.? Proposed activities include: public lecture on Critical Diversity Framework,?collaborative research discussions related to BRICS countries, masterclasses and supervisory sessions with PhD students, development of funding proposals.

Links

Work Futures Research Centre