Professor Melissa Steyn will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton 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 Southampton, 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.