Research Grants

SUCCESSFUL GRANTS:

2023-2024. PI. UWC Hub of the UNESCO Chair on Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Expansion of Political Space. University of York. R 300 000.
2023-2024. CO-I. Re-Imagining Crisis. British Academy. R4 million.
2022 – 2023. CO-I. Pandemic social infrastructure: Understanding and learning from CBOs’ local recovery practices. South African lead researcher with partners in UK and Columbia. Urban Studies Foundation. R500 000.
2021 – 2023, CO-I. Off-grid Cities. NRF Global Change Social Sciences Research Programme. R2.5 million.
2021- 2026. McMaster University, Canada. Participedia (www.participedia.net). Co-I. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Cluster Co-Chair.
2021 - 2022, CO-I. ReUnite: Reimagining the University: Enhancing the Protective Role of Universities in Conflict and Crisis, UK GCRF, 18 months, £250 000 (Funding cancelled due to UK realignment of funding, however research ongoing with support from University of York, UK).
03/2020 – 07/2020: CO-I. University of Edinburgh SFC-GCRF Covid-19 Fund. Project title: Lockdown diaries in Cape Town. Budget £15 987
2020 – 2023: CO-I: UK GCRF grant. Scaling up Off-Grid Sanitation. Theme leader: Political Economy Analysis. South African CO-I budget: R4 million
2018- 2019: CO-I: University of York, UK, Pump Prime Funding Grant (theme leader on informality and urban governance). £40 000
2017- 2019: Sole-applicant: NRF Thuthuka Rating Track grant. R364 000
2018: Lead-applicant: National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences workshop and publication grant. R259 000
2016: Sole applicant: University of the Western Cape Senate Research Funding Grant. R30 000
2015: Sole applicant: University of the Western Cape Senate Research Funding Grant. R30 000

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