Phd Students
Registered PhD students for 2012
Alexander, T T.Alexander@ru.ac.za
Arojjo, OOS g08a5875@campus.ru.ac.za
Steven Arojjo O.O
PhD Title: Youth and Post-war Resettlement in Northern Uganda
Research Interests: My main areas of research interest include the following: Internal displacement, policing, crime, children and youth.
Background: I am currently a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology in Makerere University’s School of Social Sciences. Previously, I worked as a volunteer with the Partnership for Community Safety which involved the Uganda Police Force, Uganda Prison Service and Makerere University’s department of Sociology (where it was housed). As a research I have been involved in a number of research projects and consultancies in Uganda covering child malnutrition, child rights, water, crime and agricultural related issues. I hold a Masters in Sociology from Makerere University with a dissertation on Perceptions about crime, community participation, the police and their implications for community policing in Uganda, a Post graduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management and a Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences) from Makerere University.
Publications
Arojjo Steven O.O and Nyonyintono R.M. (2009) Perspectives and Approaches to African Childhoods Research. In (eds) Marylene Shung King, Rose September, Frederick Moses Okatcha and Carlos Cardoso, Child Research in Africa. CODESRIA Monograph Series.
Arojjo Steven O.O. (2007) ‘Fighting Corruption in Uganda: 1986-2006’ Mawazo Vol. 8 No. 2 December 89-109.
Masamba-Sita N and Arojjo Obbo O.S. (2005) Reorienting of Policies: The Involvement of Local Communities in the Administration of Criminal Justice in Uganda. In R. Mukama and Murindwa-Rutanga (eds.) Confronting Twenty Century Challenges, Kampala: Makerere University Printery.
Book Review
2008 Book Review: Finnstrom S. (2008) Living in Bad Surroundings: War, History and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol 26 issue 4 pp 449-459.
Chabata, T g12C0003@campus.ru.ac.za
Chisaka, J g01C3002@campus.ru.ac.za
Dube, DC g11d6790@campus.ru.ac.za
Huschka, D g02h4136@campus.ru.ac.za
Denis Hushcka
Denis Huschka studied Sociology and Political Science at the Berlin University of Technology in Germany. He earned his Masters Degree in 2001. After a year of research at Rhodes' ISER and appointments at Free University, Berlin and the German Institute for Economic Research, he became the Managing Director of the German Data Forum (RatSWD), an advisory board of the German Federal Government. Huschka is a part time PhD scholar. His topic is social change and modernisation in Germany.
Mafukidze, J g11m7155@campus.ru.ac.za
Mahiya, I g12M0004@campus.ru.ac.za
Magoqwana, BM g03m5108@campus.ru.ac.za
Topic: Labour studies, local government, public management. My MA was attained at Rhodes in 2009 with the topic: Call-centres as a vehicle to improve customer satisfaction in local government: A case study of front-line workers in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. PhD was registered in 2009 continuing with the local government focus (topic- The Call-Centre Labour Process: A Study of Work and Workers’ Experiences at JOBURG CONNECT, South Africa).
Mahundu, F. G. g12m7042@campus.ru.ac.za
I am Fabian G. Mahundu holding B.A (Education) and M.A (Development Studies) degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). I am the public employee working with the Tanzania Commission for Universities (www.tcu.go.tz) working as ‘Admission Officer’. I am a 1st year PhD student (2012) currently enrolled at Rhodes University in the faculty of Humanities, Department of Sociology. My research field is ‘Public e-Service Delivery’. My thesis will focus on: “ICT Innovation and e-Service Quality Management: a case study of the Central Admission System (CAS) in Tanzania”.
Makonese, L g08m6402@campus.ru.ac.za
Coping with HIV/AIDS in a marginalized community in Zimbabwe
Marazi, T g08m5846@campus.ru.ac.za
Tafara Marazi
My name is Tafara Marazi. I am a third year doctorate of sociology student. I joined the sociology department in August 2008 and am a fulltime student. I am male and visually challenged. My doctorate thesis is on survival strategies of the elderly in rural Zimbabwe. It mainly focuses on how the elderly are coping up with the increasing numbers of HIV/AIDS orphans in the absence of robust social safety nets. I look into the alternative means of survival which they resort to; and the extent to which such alternatives sustain them. It is notable that the Zimbabwean economy may be undergoing lots of changes. However, this research is primarily based on the socio-economic situation which prevailed from 2000-2010. During this period, social services seriously deteriorated in Zimbabwe. There was a serious shortage of food stuffs in the shops and repeated droughts following inconsistent rainfall patterns. I conducted the first phase of my fieldwork in 2010. Currently, I am compiling my literature review and other chapters of the thesis based on the data I obtained from the field. Based on the supervisor’s recommendations, I may go to the field again to gather more data for filling in the gaps of knowledge that he may detect in my thesis.
Marimira, S g12M7123@campus.ru.ac.za
Matatu, S g00m1604@campus.ru.ac.za
Sandra Matatu
Undertaking research on e-government and e-governance at the City of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay Municipalities.
Mbekela, CM g92m3219@campus.ru.ac.za
Moorhouse, LM g11m1866@campus.ru.ac.za
Mtyingizana, NB g05m6533@campus.ru.ac.za
Mugara, T g11m7049@campus.ru.ac.za
Naidoo, L g07n0001@campus.ru.ac.za
Reynolds, JH g01r3335@campus.ru.ac.za
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John holds BA and BScocSc(Hons) degrees from the University of Cape Town, and an MSocSc degree from Rhodes. He has worked in the development field for 19 years, and his work has included research, policy development support, project management and programme management in areas such as health, water resource management, environmental management, rural development, growth and development planning, and local economic development. John’s current research is focused on state action in socio-economic development.
Roberts, J g12R7503@campus.ru.ac.za
Tanyanyiwa, P g05T4797@campus.ru.ac.za
My name is Precious Tanyanyiwa and I am currently in my 2nd year of PhD. I joined Rhodes University in 2005, completed a bachelor of social science in 2007 and an Honours degree in industrial and economic sociology in 2008. I proceeded to do a Masters in the field of knowledge production and endogeneity. My thesis ‘Race, class and inequality: An exploration of the scholarship of Professor Bernard Magubane’ was an attempt to addresses the problem of academic dependency in the new generation of African scholars by engaging with the works and scholarship of Professor Bernard Magubane. I’m currently doing research in the field of Sociology of education. My PhD thesis ‘A sociological analysis of the provision of extended studies as a means of addressing transformation in the Humanities Faculty of a historically white university’ addresses issues of higher education access and success by analyzing the Rhodes University Extended Studies Programme.
