Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson & Murray Leibbrandt. (2025). A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa. Journal of Social Policy, 54(4), 1047-1071. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000636

Nicola Branson & Emma Whitelaw. (2025). Tracking Progress Towards Gender Equity in the South African Academic Economics Pipeline. South African Journal of Economics, 93(3), 325-354. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.70000

Jimmy Winfield & Emma Whitelaw. (2024). Blended, flipped and lit: Student perceptions and performance under blended learning with a flipped classroom and a lightboard. South African Journal of Higher Education, 38(6). https://doi.org/10.20853/38-6-5970

Nicola Branson, Johs Hjellbrekke, Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod, Mike Savage & Emma Whitelaw. (2024). The socio-economic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective. The British Journal of Sociology, 74(4), 613-635. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13115

Nicola Branson & Emma Whitelaw. (2024). Consequences of secondary school closures for learning in South Africa: Evidence from university application and enrolment data. International Journal of Educational Development, 108, 103062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103062

Emma Whitelaw & Nicola Branson. (2024). What goes up must come down? The effect of ‘2020’ on university students' academic performance trajectories. South African Journal of Economics, 92(2), 135-160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12367

Nicola Branson & Emma Whitelaw. (2024). South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system wide higher education institutional data. South African Journal of Economics, 92(1), 9-30. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12361

Emma Whitelaw, Samantha Filby & Tessa Dowling. (2019). Leveraging Language: Preliminary Evidence from a Language-Based Intervention at the University of Cape Town. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 7(2), 75-93, DOI: 10.14426/cristal.v7i2.223

Tessa Dowling & Emma Whitelaw. (2018). Working towards Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Speech Assessments for South African Children: A Xhosa Case Study, Language Matters, DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2018.1467479. 

Tessa Dowling, Somikazi Deyi & Emma Whitelaw. (2017). Merger of noun classes 3 and 1: A case study with bilingual isiXhosa-speaking youth, South African Journal of African Languages, 37(1), 41-49, DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2017.1316925.

Hannah MacGinty & Emma Whitelaw. (2025). Degrees of uncertainty: What is happening to graduate (un)employment in South Africa? Econ3x3. 26 March.

Nicola Branson & Emma Whitelaw. (2023). South Africa’s higher education funding conundrum: could the current funding system hamper social mobility and university performance? Global dev. 29 November.

Emma Whitelaw & Nicola Branson. (2023). Catalyse social mobility through the success of students. University World News. 24 August.

Nicola Branson & Emma Whitelaw. (2022). When campuses close: Using institutional data to unpack South African university students’ enrolment and performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, SALDRU. 31 August.

Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson & Murray Leibbrandt. (2022). Social stratification and post-school funding thresholds: A dynamic approach to profiling the missing middle, Econ3x3. 16 March.

Emma Whitelaw, Samantha Culligan & Nicola Branson. (2020). Students will return on an unequal footing because of poor remote-learning access, Daily Maverick. 27 September. 

Nicola Branson & Emma Whitelaw. (2025). Post-School Education and Training Policies - From 1994 to Now. Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) Policy Paper 34. 

Nicola Branson, Johs Hjellbrekke, Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod, Mike Savage and Emma Whitelaw. (2023). The socio-economic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective. (ACEIR Working Paper Number 10). Africa Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research, University of Cape Town. 

Nicola Branson, Vimal Ranchhod and Emma Whitelaw. (2023).  South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system wide higher education institutional data. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town. (SALDRU Working Paper Number 300).

Nicola Branson, Vimal Ranchhod and Emma Whitelaw. (2023).  What can we understand about learning losses in 2020 from university application and enrolment data? Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town. (SALDRU Working Paper Number 301).

Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt. (2023). Learning in lockdown: University students’ academic performance during COVID-19 closures. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT. (SALDRU Working Paper No. 289 Version 2).

Emma Whitelaw, Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt. (2022). Social stratification and post-school funding thresholds: A dynamic approach to profiling the missing middle. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT. (SALDRU Working Paper No. 288).

Emma Whitelaw and Nicola Branson. (2020). Private transfers and graduate responsibilities: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT. (SALDRU Working Paper No. 270).

Emma Whitelaw & Nicola Branson. (2024). Assessment matters: What can we understand about the National Senior Certificate results during COVID-19 from university entrance exams?. (COVID-Generation Research Note). RESEP Stellenbosch University.

Emma Whitelaw & Nicola Branson. (2020). Black Tax: Do graduates face higher remittance responsibilities?

Emma Whitelaw, Samantha Culligan & Nicola Branson. (2020). Student ability to learn at home: An introductory look at student access to remote learning resources.