UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
Institute for Social Development
Daniel Tevera
Daniel Tevera is an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and he is a former chairman of the department. His research focuses on resilience, but it is the domain of urban food systems, migrant spaces and urban informality that his recent work has focused on. He has published several books and many influential articles on migration and migrants, urban food security, waste management and environmental security. He has extensive research experience in southern Africa (especially, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia). He has participated in the Southern African Migration Programme (a consortium of Canadian and African researchers) as national team leader. He was part of the management team of the African Food Security Urban Network, a research, policy and capacity-building network of Canadian and African universities, NGOs and municipal governance networks. He is the inaugural Programme Coordinator of the Leadership for Environment and Development in Southern Africa (LEAD-SA).
Mulugeta Dinbabo
Mulugeta Dinbabo, is a Professor of Development Studies at the Institute for Social Development, University of the Western Cape. He is an established researcher whose research trajectories have been influenced by the critical role of Migration Studies and Postgraduate Teaching. Professor Dinbabo has supervised and graduated more than 50 Master's and PhD degrees and built a stronger research ethic and published extensively in local and international journals. So far he has produced over 40 publications in peer-reviewed or refereed local and international journals. He is also the founder and Chief Editor of the African Human Mobility Review (AHMR), which is an accredited journal by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed on-line journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa.
Bradley Rink
Bradley Rink is a Human Geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Studies & Tourism at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). His interest in mobilities and migration research and teaching is grounded in the social aspects of movements and circulations in African cities. He is the 2021 recipient of the Royal Geographical Society Wiley Digital Archive research fellowship. His recent outputs have been published in leading journals within his field including Mobilities, Transfers, Journal of Geography in Higher Education and Tourism Geographies as well as various edited collections. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Urban Forum (Springer Nature), PI for the UWC-registered project Mobilities in the global South, and sits on the Editorial Boards of Mobilities and Journal of Urban Mobility. He is a member of UWC's Migration and Mobilities Interdisciplinary Collective in Africa (MMICA) and the African Urban Mobilities Network and serves the Association of the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) as an elected member of the Executive Committee. He is the recipient of the 2017 CHE-HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award.
Amiena Bayat
Amiena Bayat has a PhD in Economics from UWC and a MA in Development Economics from Williams College (USA). In addition to her qualifications in Economics, she has a post-graduate qualification in Survey Data Analysis. She is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social Development (ISD), University of the Western Cape. Amiena has undertaken assignments for the UNDP, UNIDO, the EU and the South African Presidency. Her work on economic development is extensive, ranging from sustainable livelihoods, poverty & inequality and food security. She has undertaken several large-scale surveys in South Africa, including one for the South African Presidency.
Sergio Carciotto
Sergio Carciotto is a migration specialist who consults independently on migration, displacement and refugee rights. He holds a PhD degree in Development Studies from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He also has a MA Degree in Migration Studies and Refugee Rights from the University of Rome and a MA Degree in Development Studies from the university of the Western Cape. His research interests include migration policies, migrant networks and livelihoods and the link between migration and citizenship. Sergio serves as the journal editor of the African Human Mobility Review and has published in national and international migration journals. He also previously worked as a protection associate for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Razack Karriem
Razack Karriem obtained his PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Prior to joining the Institute for Social Development at UWC, he taught in the Department of City and Regional Development at Cornell University and in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr Karriem also worked for the Department of Land Affairs (on land reform and rural development) and at the Department Constitutional Development (on provincial and local governance). Prof. Karriem research interests are in urban and rural development, the role of social movements in promoting development from below, as well as urban sustainability and climate change. He has researched and written on the Brazilian Landless Movement's struggles for land reform and an ecologically sustainable rural development model. His current research project focuses on the housing struggles of Abahlali baseMjondolo or the Shackdwellers Movement of South Africa.
