Projects
Study visit at the Business and human rights Unity at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and field visits to the African Regional and sub-regional mechanisms of human rights protection as well as to some human rights organisations which support vi Ghent University
African countries need to attract Multinational Corporations (MNCs) for their development. But at the same time, many MNCs have been accused of involvement in human rights abuses and their victims face many obstacles to accessing remedies in domestic jurisdictions. This research will explore the potential of the African regional and sub-regional mechanisms to fill that gap in human rights protection.
Landscapes of youth at work: places, practices and possibilities for livelihood making in South Africa KU Leuven
This thesis is about young people’s livelihood making in contemporary South Africa.
In a first exploration of youth at work, I use the concept of employability as analytical lens to evaluate young people’s engagements with work in the labour market through the development of a multidimensional employability index. This quantitative perspective clearly shows the impact of lived realities at the individual, household, and neighbourhood ...
Afro-Indo agendas in Johannesburg: South Asian female migration to South Africa and the shaping of urban space KU Leuven
The point at which two continents, Asia and Africa fold or collapse on each other, creates an interesting discussion on migration – the flows of communities, commodities, and ideas. The meeting of shores via the Indian (African) ocean provides a highway of passage. The proposed research locates the everyday practices of Indian migrant communities in South Africa within the chronicles of transoceanic narratives, specifically in relation to the ...
Towards a health-enabling working environment: developing and testing interventions to decrease HIV- and TB-stigma among healthcare workers in the Free State Province, South Africa. University of Antwerp
HIV Illness Identity, Household HIV Competence and Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence, an analysis of associations among a treatment-naïve adult population living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa. University of Antwerp
Towards a health-enabling working environment: developing and testing interventions to decrease HIV- and TB-stigma among healthcare workers in the Free State Province, South Africa. University of Antwerp
Understanding the dynamics of accessing chronic medicines in rural and urban settings in South Africa Institute of Tropical Medicine
Prevention and improved diagnosis of adolescent genital disease in schistosomiasis endemic KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (IRSES). University of Antwerp
The First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Human Migration, Language Spread, Climate Change and Early Farming in Late Holocene Central Africa Ghent University
The Bantu Expansion is not only the main linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. It is also one of the most controversial issues in African History that still has political repercussions today. It has sparked debate across the disciplines and far beyond Africanist circles in an attempt to understand how the young Bantu language family (ca. 5000 years) could spread over large parts of Central, Eastern and ...