Postdoctoral Research Fellows
SCIS hosts post-doctoral fellows from South Africa and around the world. Post-doctoral fellows spend between one and three years at SCIS, undertaking cutting-edge research, and participating in the intellectual life of SCIS. Meet our current Post-doctoral fellows bellow:
Dr Eddie Cottle
Dr Eddie Cottle is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. Eddie's scholarly focus and interest is on the theorisation of labour strikes, which remains an under-researched area globally in the labour studies field. He is particularly interested in strike theory, labour history, strike statistics and comparative studies in social conflict. He is currently an executive board member of the International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts and the editorial board of the Workers of the World Journal. He is a former trade unionist and was the policy and campaign officer for Building and Wood Workers International (BWI), Africa and Middle East Region. He also served as head of collective bargaining support at the Labour Research Service (LRS) in Cape Town. Recently, Eddie Cottle coordinated the 6th Conference of the International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts held in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr Mbuso Moyo
Dr Mbuso Moyo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Climate Change and Inequality Project. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Johannesburg. His research was on youth unemployment, aspirations and development in the Royal Bafokeng Nation, a ‘traditional community’ that has carved for itself a lofty position as a ‘successful’ platinum mining community in South Africa’s North West province. His work interrogates the political economy of mining, extractivist accumulation and the various modes of popular resistance it has engendered in coal, copper, platinum, and lithium mining host communities in the global South in general and sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Moyo’s work amplifies the point that mining operations undermine rural communities' access to, and rights over, land resulting in land enclosures. The just energy and digital transitions, Moyo believes, hold the promise for mine host communities for as long as appropriate industrial policies are crafted to engender structural transformation and employment creation. Moyo’s current research activities include: a. collecting fragments or artefacts of the situation through photographic recordal of the mining operations, and their impact on the environment, and livelihoods in coal, platinum, and lithium mining host communities in Zimbabwe; b. building a digital archive of the unfolding situation; and c. collecting and analysing material about industrial policy and the legal frameworks on mineral exploitation and beneficiation.
Dr Courtney Hallink
Dr Courtney Hallink is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. She recently completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Courtney also holds an MSocSci in Sociology from the University of Cape Town and a BA (Hons) in International Relations from the University of Toronto. Courtney’s scholarly work explores the intersections between work, unemployment, social policy, and race, gender and class stratification. She is particularly interested in examining the ways in which the historical institutionalisation of social citizenship reproduces stratification in the (post)-colonial present. Courtney’s work is theoretically grounded in social reproduction theory; race and capitalism; critical whiteness studies; and the racial state.