Senior Researcher Ms Tabeth Masengu will be undertaking a year long research stay in Ghent Belgium. This is part of her joint PhD programme and it  commences from 1 September 2017. Tabeth is the first member of the law faculty and law PhD student registered at UCT to undertake a joint doctoral programme and is a pioneer in this regard. Her research questions interrogates the formal and informal aspects of the judicial appointment process that impede women's ascension to the bench. Her dissertation uses South Africa and Zambia as case studies and delves further into a research interest that created the Gender transformation arm of the DGRU work.