Kalpana Dixit

January-May 2012 Kalpana Dixit is pursuing her doctoral research in the Department of Political Science, Pune University, India on the topic “Changing Paradigm of Democratic Governance: A Case Study of Electricity Sector Reforms in Maharashtra.” Her research interests include political economy of development, political process in India, politics of restructuring,... Read more

Tatenda Mukwedeya

Tatenda is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He obtained an MA in Development Sociology from the same institution and completed his Bsc Hons in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. His interests lie in development and political sociology, particularly around issues... Read more

Duncan Pieterse

Duncan Pieterse is a PhD candidate in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He completed an Honours and Masters in Business Science (Economics) at the University of Cape Town. Duncan’s PhD research examines the impact of exposure to violence on the outcomes of... Read more

Fengyan
Dai

Academic Year 2011-12 Dai is a PhD student of Economics at CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). Her research interest is economic growth and social inequality in contemporary China. She has participated in several programs at CASS, which mainly investigated domestic migrants in China. These programs covered problems of housing,... Read more