Current PhDs

2014 Cohort

Hlokoma Manqalaza

Home Country: South Africa

Project Title: THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ORGANISATIONAL PROXIMITY IN THE CONTEXT OF RURAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CASE STUDY OF MARLOW AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL

Department: School of Public Leadership

2015 Cohort

Izel Vortser

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: The use of structural elements in music to evoke emotional responses towards advertisements.

Department: Business Management

Wihan Lategan

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: Towards a model of status consumption among black middle class South Africans.

Department: Business Management

Ben Higgins

Home Country: UK

Project Title: Towards Sustainable Urban Futures: The Potential of Foresight in Governance to Improve Sustainable Urban Development Outcomes in South Africa.

Department: School for Public Leadership

2016 Cohort

Martina Mchenga

Home Country: Malawi

Project Title: Vulnerable Households and Health: Evidence from surverys in Malawi and South Africa

Department: Economics

Noe Careme Fouotsa Manfouo

Home Country: Cameroon

Project Title: A combined Hydroeconomics and Game theory approach to support optimal water allocation in the Lake Chad Basin

Department: Logistics (Operations Research)

Jacques Pienaar

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: The development of a generic South African graduate competency model: Future strategic leaders

Department: Industrial Psychology

Tawanda Chingoza

Home Country: Zimbabwe

Project Title: Applying machine learning on remotely sensed and GIS data to analyse socio-economic change in SSA

Department: Economics

Ines Tiekwe Mbonda

Home Country: Cameroon

Project Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Investor Over-reaction and Under-reaction in the South Africa Equity Market: A Mathematical Statistical Approach

Department: Statistics and Actuarial Science

Calumet Links

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: Manifest Destiny: Did the Advancement of the Cape colonial frontier stunt long term economic growth?

Department: Economics

Farai Nyika

Home Country: Zimbabwe

Project Title: The economic consequences of voter disenfranchisement in the Cape Colony 1887-1910

Department: Economics

2017 Cohort

Hassan Kimbugwe

Home Country: Uganda

Project Title: HEALTH EXPENDITURES AND OUTCOMES IN UGANDA

Department: Economics

Paul Wabiga

Home Country: Uganda

Project Title: Foreign Direct investment Exportation and employment generation - Firm level analysis

Department: Economics

Heinrich Nel

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: QUANTIFYING LIFECYCLE MOBILITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE CAPE PANEL

Department: Economics

Helvi Petrus

Home Country: Namibia

Project Title: FUNDING FOR ROADS IN NAMIBIA: OPTIMAL USER CHARGES AND COST RECOVERY

Department: Economics

Neema Towo

Home Country: Malawi

Project Title: The impact of training on productivity: The macro-micro analysis

Department: Economics

Thabang Molise

Home Country: Lesotho

Project Title: Essays on macroprudential policies and financial stability in Emerging Market Economies

Department: Economics

Rossouw van Jaarsveld

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: The application of statistical learning and machine learning in anti-competitive analysis

Department: Economics

Leon Matsuro

Home Country: Zimbabwe

Project Title: Firm and worker dynamics in an uncertain economic environment

Department: Economics

Joel Gondwe

Home Country: Malawi

Project Title: Considering the Impact of Composition and Contextual Effects on Learner Outcomes

Department: Economics

2018 Cohort

Angela Lee Marsburg

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: The development of a constitutive model of psychological well-being at work, in South Africa, and its empirical testing over time

Department: Industrial Psychology

Flora Hofmann

Home Country: Germany

Project Title: Order picking optimisation

Department: Logistics (Operations Reserach)

Jeannie de Villiers-Strijdom

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: Modelling annuity decision-making.

Department: Business Management

Sotola Olusegun

Home Country: Nigeria

Project Title: Understanding the Private and Public Sector Corruption Nexus: Evidence from Nigeria

Department: SPL

Dominic Okoliko

Home Country: Nigeria

Project Title: Media(ted) climate change in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya: Investigating conditions for public engagement

Department: SPL

Mkupete Jaah

Home Country: Tanzania

Project Title: Examining Child Health and Nutrition inequalities in Tanzania

Department: Economics

Trust Gangaidzo

Home Country: Zimbabwe

Project Title: A Socio-economic Perspective of Stressful Life Events and Hypertension in Developing Countries

Department: Economics

Bernard Njiri

Home Country: RSA

Project Title: Trade and financial shocks, external financial adjustments and macroeconomic policy responses

Department: Economics

Prince Changole

Home Country: Malawi

Project Title: An Analysis of Merger Characteristics, the Merger Process and Merger Decisions in South Africa

Department: Economics