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The Children's Institute is made up of a multi-disciplinary team of research and support staff. Experience is wide-ranging, with staff members having qualifications in anthropology, education, information sciences, journalism, law, public policy and development, political science, social welfare; and experience in statistical, social and legal research.

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Research and advocacy staff

Director:
Prof Shirley Pendlebury
Expertise: Education; teacher education & development; participatory democracy & social justice; public reasoning

 

Senior researcher: Child poverty:
Lizette Berry
Expertise: Child socio-economic rights indicators; child poverty

 

Senior researcher: Child poverty:
Ariane De Lannoy
Expertise: Education & adolescents' educational decision-making; HIV/AIDS; young adults' perceptions of vulnerability; perceptions of opportunity structure

 

Senior researcher:
Katharine Hall
Expertise: Child poverty; socio-economic rights

 

Chief research officer: HIV/AIDS:
Dr Patricia Henderson
Expertise: Ethnography of childhoods; philosophy; theories of embodiment, performance & phenomenology; teaching anthropology courses on the figure of the child; contested childhoods & children's rights

 

Senior advocacy co-ordinator: Child rights:
Lucy Jamieson
Expertise: Child rights; participatory democracy; governance; law reform & policy development

 

Researcher: HIV/AIDS:
Sue Moses
Expertise: Children & HIV/AIDS; children’s participation; social policy; sociology & anthropology of childhood

 

Senior researcher: Child rights
Prinslean Mahery
Expertise: Children's health & socio-economic rights; legislative review; advocacy & law reform

 

Researcher: HIV/AIDS:
Andile Mayekiso
Expertise: HIV/AIDS; migration studies; infants & HIV/AIDS; street children; social policy

 

Acting HIV/AIDS manager:
Helen Meintjes
Expertise: HIV/AIDS & children; alternative care; social policy; children's participation; media

 

Senior researcher: Child rights:
Dr Tendai Nhenga-Chakarisa
Expertise: International law; human rights law; child rights; child labour; applying international children's rights law in African cultural contexts; curriculum design & legal drafting

 

Child rights manager:
Paula Proudlock
Expertise: Child rights; legislative review; law reform; democracy & governance; socio-economic rights for children

 

Senior researcher: HIV/AIDS:
Norma Rudolph
Expertise: Child rights; action research & appreciative inquiry; education; HIV/AIDS & children

 

Quotes

I write to compliment you on this remarkable venture [SA Child Gauge] and the editors for the vivid and striking publication. The lesson we can draw from your work is that we must cherish all the children of the nation equally, with special emphasis on those who are vulnerable. More power to your elbow.
Prof K Asmal, [then] Member of Parliament, March 2006
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