April 2026
“This house is not for sale”: Otherwise than a house − the Black family home in Soweto
Publication
Nonlinear dynamics and topological transitions in DNA supercoiling
Publication
Advances in Optical Analysis of Materials and Complex Biological Systems Using Infrared Spectroscopy
Publication
Overcoming dietary dogmas
April 2026
‘It’s as if the more things change, the more they remain the same’: Land tenure and colonial legacies in West Africa
Project
Division of labor, and the organization of work in the natural world
I am writing a book on division of labor in animal social groups, that also explores the broader question of how animal societies organize around work.
April 2026
Epistemic integrity and political values in language scholarship
April 2026
Bearing witness to exceptional violence in the Global South: Storytelling and healing in Cambodian survivor narratives
Project
The Killing of the Dogs
This story of organised around and imaginary organised dog killing in a South African township during the period of resistance to apartheid oppression.
April 2026
Investigating energy sources for the future: Biochar and carbon-based materials for energy and environmental sustainability
March 2026
The Fascination of Bees: Social disruption and honey bee colony survival
Project
Generative AI to Strengthen Global Health Security
Infectious disease threats to individual and public health are numerous, varied and frequently unexpected.
March 2026
West African Pidgin: World language against the grain
Project
How do you sign it? Creating a multimedia multilingual descriptive grammar of South African Sign Language on a digital platform
In August 2023 South African Sign Language (SASL) became the 12th language to be officially recognized in South Africa. This has drastically...
Project
Women Cabinet Ministers in West Africa: Insights from The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone
Across the world cabinet ministers are significant political players and yet they are grossly under researched, in part because of a dearth of consistent and comparable data.
Project
Waterworlding: More-than-human and more-than-digital
Technology providers from around the world are currently marketing digital water meters to households or communities with the promise of using water more efficiently and distributing it more fairly in the face of increasingly scarce drinking water resources and simultaneous population growth.
Project
Science and Technology in Indian Agriculture: History, Evolution and Emerging Challenges
This project is essentially a plan to write a book on the interrelationships between science, technology and agriculture in India, with specific reference to the challenges of sustainable development and climate change.
Project
Children’s Mental Health and Human Rights Amidst Conflict: How Agency and Activism Shape Psychological Resilience and Survival Skills
This project explores how children living in conflict zones respond to violence, displacement, and systemic injustice—not only as victims, but as active agents of survival and resistance.
Project
Knowledge, Power, and Policy: Constructing a Political Economy of Innovation and Research in Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa has long been a leader in scientific research and innovation on the African continent.
Project
What would it take to make a virtual microbiology lab?
Computational Biology offers a valuable complement to complex experimental approaches to study infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis.
Project
Spiritual Place-Making in Contemporary Gardens
This project explores the growing synergies between gardening and spirituality.
Project
Breaking the ice: how integrating cryogenic Electron Microscopy can overcome historical scientific isolation and enable local pharmaceutical and vaccine Development in South Africa.
With the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three pioneers in cryogenic electron microscopy, the world was awakened to the cutting-edge technology of 'cryo-EM'.
Project
Epistemology and its discontents: Working as a psychologist in troubled times
This monograph project outlines the discipline of psychology’s complex relationship with human rights, acknowledging instances of complicity in injustice alongside its potential for liberation.
Project
Landscaping the Cape: “improvement”, the politics of visibility & the heritage e/affects of socio-ecological commoning, 1872 – 1948
This project builds on scholarship about landscape and memory in Cape Town by looking at how “nature” historically structured the material making of the cityscape, and the racially-heterogenous socio-natural commons that emerged in the city during the 20th century.
