RESEARCHERS FEATURED

Stephanie Matseleng Allais

Stephanie Matseleng Allais is the Research Chair of Skills Development and Professor of Education in the Centre for Researching Education and Labour at Wits University. Her research is located in International and Comparative Education, and Education and Development, focused on relationships between education and work. Her research focuses both on political economy of transitions from education to work and curriculum, and knowledge aspects of educational preparation for work, with a focus on developing countries.

Demitri Constantinou

Adjunct Professor Demitri Constantinou, MD, is a sport and exercise physician in the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine in the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences. His research spans clinical sports medicine, sports cardiology, and doping in sports. He is a National Research Foundation C-rated researcher in the health and medical sciences and his specialisations include sports-doping, exercise therapy, sports cardiology, and sports performance. With over 80 publications, including peerreviewed articles, book chapters, and abstracts, he is recognised by local and international experts.

EBRAHIM-KHALIL HASSEN

Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen is a Senior Researcher and co-theme lead for the Inclusive Economies Programme at the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO). His research and advocacy work seeks to find evidence-based alternatives to structural inequality and unemployment. At the GCRO, he leads a multidisciplinary team that is constructing alternatives for public procurement reform. These reforms aim to address corruption, sustainability and support small business. This work informs and is informed by a project seeking to grow employment in Gauteng, and in South Africa, in the context of an unequal society.

Bridget Kenny

Bridget Kenny is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Wits University. She works on labour, gender, race and urban space, with specific focus on service work, precarious employment, work and technology and political subjectivity in South Africa historically and today. Her books include Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and the co-edited Wal-Mart in the Global South (University of Texas Press, 2018).

Jane Ndlovu

Jane Ndlovu is a Chartered Accountant (SA), a 2023 Wits Female Academic Leaders Fellow (FALF), and Senior Lecturer in the Wits Margo Steele School of Accountancy. Her research focuses on South African tax policy, exploring key areas such as digital services tax, VAT in e-commerce, environmental taxation, and tax justice with a focus on gender equity. She has published widely in journals including in the Journal of Law, Society and Development, Journal of Economic and Financial Services, New Agenda, Intertax, and International Tax Studies.

Zintle Ntshongwana

Dr Zintle Ntshongwana has been a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Wits University since 2022. She was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Fort Hare, where she earned her PhD as well as undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Social Work. Her research interests include family social work, foster care, domestic and genderbased violence, and disability. She is a Wits Female Academic Leaders Fellow (FALF) and in 2023 received research recognition from the Wits Faculty of Humanities.

Chevonne Reynolds

Associate Professor Chevonne Reynolds brings her enthusiasm for winged creatures to the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences at Wits University. While primarily focused on bird research, she is equally invested in studying bees, bats, and dung beetles. Her work harnesses the power of citizen science and remote sensing to understand how these species adapt to human-modified landscapes. A self-described BBBBs researcher (birds, bees, bats, and beetles), Reynolds combines field ecology, big data, and statistical modelling to understand our complex socio-ecological landscapes.

Marius Van Staden

Marthinus (Marius) van Staden is an Associate Professor in the Wits School of Law. His research focuses on the public law aspects of labour law, particularly statutory interpretation and constitutional law. He examines the intersection of labour rights and social justice in South Africa, with emphasis on vulnerable workers’ rights and workplace discrimination. He has published extensively in leading journals and is a National Research Foundation-rated researcher. His work explores how public law shapes labour relations in an evolving technological landscape.