Students include PhD and Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Current PhD students:
Charity Monareng. Real Rehabilitation: Implementing a Responsive, Medium Term Government-led Rehabilitation Strategy for Habitual Drug Users in an Impoverished Setting in Cape Town.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing & Simon Howell
Current Postdoctoral Fellow:
Julie Goodness. 2020 - 2022. The Art of the Resilience Programme. The University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing, UCT and Benoit Dupont, University of Montreal.
Recent Postdoctoral fellows
Annette Hubschle. 2019 - 2020 Environmental Futures Programme. University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing.
Tariro Mutongwizo. 2017 - 2020. Resilient Communities Programme. University of New South Wales. Griffith University. Supervision: Clifford Shearing and Cameron Holley.
Tariro Kamuti. 2019 - 2020. Discourses of Predator Persecution under Livestock and Game Farming, and its Implications for Conservation in South Africa. University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing and John Donaldson, SANBI.
Nick Simpson: The Art of the Resilience Programme. 2017 - 2019. University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing.
Louise Du Toit. 2017 - 2018. Climate Change Mitigation and Insurance. University of Cape Town.
Cameron Harrington 2014 – 15. Fulcrum Institutions Programme, GRG, University of Cape Town. Current position: Assistant Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.
Samantha Peterson 2013 – 14. Fulcrum Institutions Programme, GRG, University of Cape Town. Current position: Environmental Outcomes Adviser, World Wide Fund for Nature.
Recent PhD graduates
2020
Mafaro Kapiso. Hybrid Governance in the Global South: A case study of collusion within the South African construction industry.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing & Dee Smythe.
2018
Melani van der Merwe. An In-Depth Exploration of the Networks of Private Sector Governance in the Changing Electricity Market in South Africa.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing (UCT) and Jan Froestad (University of Bergen)
Saul Roux. Sustainable Transitions in Cities in the Global South: A Case Study of the City.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing and Zarina Patel ( UCT)
2017
Guy Lamb. Jagged Blue Frontiers: The Police and the Policing of Boundaries in South Africa.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Elrena van der Spuy and Clifford Shearing
Irvin Kinnes. Contested Governance: Police and Gang Interactions.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing and Elrena van der Spuy
2016
Annette Hubschle. A Game of Horns: Illegal Economic Exchange in Rhinoceros Horn.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies/ University of Cologne.
Supervision: Clifford Shearing, University of Cape Town and Jens Beckert,
University of Cologne
2015
Julie Berg. Polycentric Security Governance: Legitimacy, Accountability and the Public Interest.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing
Current position: Lecturer, The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
Centre, University of Glasgow.
Moliehi Shale. Resilience and Risk in the Informal Economy: A Study in the Regulation of Flooding.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing (UCT) and Tanja Börzel (Freie Universitat)
Current position: Consultant, Researcher in climate change adaptation and
environmental risk governance, Share Value Africa.
Suzall Timm. Modalities of Regulation in the Informal Economy: A Study of in Waste Collectors in Cape Town.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of
Witwatersrand.
Tom Herbstein. Insurance and the Anthropocene: Like a Frog in Hot Water.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing
Current position: Programme manager, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
2014
Amanda Alexander. The Idea of the Civilian in International Law.
Australian National University. Supervision: Clifford Shearing and Hilary Charlesworth, ANU
Current position: Lecturer in the Thomas More Academy of Law,
Australian Catholic University, North Sydney.
Esther Thomas. Sustainable Conflict Management by Multinational Mining Companies in Areas of Limited Statehood.
Freie University, Berlin. Supervision: Clifford Shearing (UCT) and Tania Borzel, Freie University, Berlin
Current position: Research Associate, Freie University, Berlin.
Laura Drivdal. The Politics of Informal Settlement Leadership: Ambiguities of Speaking Publicly and Mediating Conflicting Organisational Logics.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing, Jan Froestad, Bergen University, Norway
Current Position: Adviser, Centre for the Study of the Science and the
Humanities, University of Bergen.
Sophie Nakueira. New Architectures of Governance: Transnational Private Actors, Enrolment Strategies and the Security Governance of Sports Mega Events.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing
Current position: Research Fellow at Max Planck Research Institute, Halle, 2017 - February 2019. She is also a Research Fellow in the Global Risk Governance programme.
Tariro Mutongwizo. Contours of Non-state Governance: Encountering States in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
University of Cape Town. Supervision: Clifford Shearing
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, University of New South Wales.