Postgraduate Teaching & Supervision

Postgraduate Teaching 

I have had inputs in postgraduate teaching through the delivery of seminars for GES711 History and Philosophy of Geography, Research Methods, taught by Prof Shirley Brooks.  In 2015 my GES711 seminar was entitled ‘Between the spaces of field and home: Negotiating the borderlands of identity and the terrain of difference on the streets of Cape Town’. In the seminar I reflected on my PhD fieldwork in order to illustrate the journey from self (home) to research (field) as one that involves a journey into the contact zone requiring the researcher negotiate self and the ‘other’.  The seminar was offered to students as they were preparing to embark on their fieldwork, and like much of my teaching it was research-led in that the content was drawn from a forthcoming chapter in an edited collected entitled ‘Between the spaces of field and home: Negotiating the borderlands of identity and the terrain of difference on the streets of Cape Town’ that will be part of Jacobsen and Farrell’s  (eds) Writing Fieldnotes in the Streets: Ethnographic Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in Contemporary Urban Africa.  

Since 2016, I have presented a GES711 seminar entitled ‘Autoethnography: Reflections of a relational body on the bus’.  The seminar is based on my recent auto-ethnographic research involving public transport in Cape Town and serves as a means to introduce the opportunities and challenges of ethnography and autoethnography as methodological approaches for students’ research. See links to files below for details on these seminars.

Postgraduate Supervision

PhD

2022 - present Goeiman, Johnathan.  Navigating space, waste and mobilities: an exploration of street waste-pickers’ entanglements with the urban(e) and the mundane University of the Western Cape, PhD, Geography & Environmental Studies [in progress]

Graduated Masters

2023 Majiet, Musfiqah, Gated communities for the working class: A Cape Flats case study, University of the Western Cape, MA, Geography & Environmental Studies [completed requirements]

2023 Burgess, Ashleigh. Assessing sense of place amongst returnees of District Six, Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, MA, Geography & Environmental Studies 

2021 Goeiman, Johnathan.  The Bakkie Brigade in Cape Town’s urban waste economy: exploring waste mobilities and the precariat, University of the Western Cape, MA, Geography & Environmental Studies 

2019  Paulsen, Adrian. Mapping Urban Food Security in Delft: A Bottom Up Perspective, University of the Western Cape, MA, Geography & Environmental Studies 

2017 Ramsawmy, Sharon. Gated nature and its role in creating place attachment and place identity in post-apartheid South Africa: An analysis of Grotto Bay Private Residential Estate, University of Cape Town, MPhil, Environmental and Geographical Science

2016 Taylor, Frances. Open Streets Cape Town and its role in shaping everyday experience of public space and mobility in Observatory, Woodstock and Salt River, University of Cape Town, MPhil, Environmental and Geographical Science

2014   Schmitt, Brian: Realizing the Benefits of Beekeeping Development Projects in the Western Cape

2012 Wicht, Cabral. Changing Climate, changing perceptions: A study of public perception of climate change in Lavender Hill, Cape Town (Co-supervisor), University of Cape Town, MSc specialising in Climate Change & Sustainable Development

Graduated Honours

2020  Mahlangu, Linda: Outlaws in the concrete jungle. University of the Western Cape

2020  Makitle, Mojalefa Patrick: The Heterogeneousness of the Homogenous: Investigating the Perception of Space and Place in a Typical South African Township. University of the Western Cape

2019   Du Preez, Bronwyn: Coffee culture and neighbourhood change: Pushing the boundaries of the urban poor. University of the Western Cape

2019   Jacobs, Zina: Exploring the relational infrastructures of mobility in Town Centre, Mitchells Plain. University of the Western Cape

2019   Rhodes, Hilton: Affordability, reliability and safety: The lived experience of public transportation in Cape Town, based on staff at the University of the Western Cape. University of the Western Cape

2018  Abdul, Ruwayda: Reframing urban art: Perceptions of graffiti and place in Woodstock, Cape Town. University of the Western Cape

2018  Crow, Justin: Horsepower: Human/animal mobile assemblages in the contemporary city. University of the Western Cape

2018  Grobler, Lisa: Connection, Place, Transit (CPT): Understanding airport atmospherics and meaning making at Cape Town International Airport. University of the Western Cape

2018  Harrison, Kaylin: Between (h)ome and Home: Exploring sites of translocality in Maitland, Cape Town. University of the Western Cape

2017  Fortuin, Rantin. Exploring the contestation over small scale fishing in the tourism economy in the coastal town of Arniston. University of the Western Cape

2017  Ngulube, Tafadzwa. Work and Play: Using GIS to explore ludic spaces at UWC: A multi-strand ethnographic approach. University of the Western Cape

2017  Paulsen, Adrian. Making the Invisible Visible: Geographies of Inclusion and Exclusion within the context of students with disabilities at UWC. University of the Western Cape

2017  Petersen, Naeem. Monsters in the city?: New-build gentrification and cultural change in Bo-Kaap. University of the Western Cape

2016  Homu, Linet. Social and spatial dimensions of food amongst an immigrant population: A case study of Strand. University of the Western Cape

2016  Klaas, Lwando. Living with aeromobility: The relationship between an informal settlement and aeromobility. University of the Western Cape

2016  Lemekoana, Pearl. The role and meaning of a wall: discursive and material practices in Langebaan. University of the Western Cape

2016  Xorile, Noluyolo. Mobile begging on Metrorail trains in Cape Town. University of the Western Cape

2014  Moir, James: Shifting in the City: Driving forces of Landscape Change and the Creation of an Elitist Landscape at Oranjezicht City Farm

2013  Dor, Greg. Exploring the links between the Informal Economy and mobility in Mowbray. University of Cape Town

2013  Wells, Heidi. What is the relationship between retail market growth and sustainable neighbourhood development? A case study of the Neighbourgoods Market, Woodstock. University of Cape Town

2012  Gamedze, Asher. The GSCID: Whose community, whose improvement? University of Cape Town