The Governance, Law and Social Justice research group works with a wide variety of researchers including ISS faculty, post-docs, visiting researchers and PhD candidates.
ISS faculty and post-docs
Visiting and Affiliated researchers
Joop de Wit - Associate Professor in Public Policy and Development Management
Des Gasper - Emeritus Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics and Public Policy
Antony Otieno Ong'ayo - Academic researcher
Ayhan Işik - Academic researcher
Tefera Negash Gebregziabher - Visiting researcher
Cathi Albertyn - Professor / Co-supervisor from the University of the Witwatersrand, Joint ISS-Wits PhD Programme
Jonathan Klaaren - Professor / Co-supervisor from the University of the Witwatersrand, Joint ISS-Wits PhD Programme
Tshepo Madlingozi - Associate Professor / Co-supervisor from the University of the Witwatersrand, Joint ISS-Wits PhD Programme
Hadeel Abu Hussein - Legal Mobilization Fellow, Legal Mobilization Project
Ahmed Abofoul - Legal Mobilization Fellow, Legal Mobilization Project
Michael Farrely - affiliate researcher
Kody Moodley
Malte Luken
PhD researchers
| Afroza Bulbul | Cinematic representation of gender and sexuality in liberation war movies of Bangladesh (2011 – 2020) |
| Ahmed Elassal | Accountability and service delivery performance in Uganda: A comparative study of the education and social protection sectors |
| Akeerbieke Nuerjiazi | Localized learning and regional development in central Asia: Joint ventures, industrial policy and economic restructuring on rare earth industry in Kazakhstan |
| Alberto Estrada Mares | Migration policies’ influence on Mexico’s migration transition after 40 years of neoliberalism: A case study of migration policies toward digital nomads and NTCA migrants |
| Ana Victoria Portocarrero | Climate change adaptation and food insecurity in Nicaragua: Discourses, power, resistance, transformation |
| Anderson Macedo De Jesus | Values education in Brazil: A study of three educational initiatives based on value formation |
| Andrew Dryhurst | Ai, cryptography & the emergence of web3: An icma-fr analysis of the political economy of the contemporary internet |
| Anne Brinkman | Can we practice as we preach? The contribution of diverse perspectives to the emergence of civic logic in Libya - the case of Libya and EU efforts |
| Ashwin Parulkar | Homeless people and homelessness policy and practice in Delhi |
| Azucena Gollaz Moran | Women´s daily mobilities to work by public transport in Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Beatrice Hati Gitundu | Multilevel disaster resilience governance (MLG) in marginalized communities: The case of grassroots organizations, GROs, in Nairobi’s informal settlements |
| Beatriz Adriana Campillo Carrete | Migration discourses in un emerging governance arrangements: The GFDM, the IOM and the GCSORM |
| Charmika Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara | Interrogating the relationship between the company, the state and human beings: Reimagining juristic personality by re-centering the human in human rights |
| Claudia Rodriguez Orrego | The political economy of rights-based judicialization of healthcare in Colombia: Distributive dynamics of judicial interventions on the reform of healthcare policy |
| Delu Lusambya Mwenebyake | Understanding humanitarian governance in Democratic Republic of Congo: Community-driven accountability and advocacy in humanitarian actions |
| Eftal Ozmen Ilbilgi | Constructing integration from below: Comparative urban experiences of young people in the Netherlands |
| Ekaterina Evdokimova | Persistent institutionalization of children with severe multiple impairments in Russia: Reasons, dynamics, solutions |
| Elizabeth Swartz | When power meets uncertainty: Collapse, crisis and the politics of urban water scarcity in South Africa |
| Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo | A feminist humanitarian action? Possibilities and encounters: Learning from the experiences of crisis affected populations in Colombia |
| Guido Maschhaupt | Coalition-building for pro-poor policy reform |
| Hao Zhang | Policy advocacy and global climate governance: The case of Chinese NGOs |
| Haya Alfarra | Decolonizing humanitarianism: A diaspora humanitarian perspective: the case of Palestinian German diaspora organisations’ response to the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip |
| Hyeonggeun Ji | Humanitarian governance on climate-related displacement |
| Ilaha Abasli | Re:construct - seeking to understand the social dimension of transition to the circular economy in the low and middle-income contexts |
| Jaffer Najar | Locating marginalized voices in human trafficking discourse: Learning from the experience of urban migrants in India |
| Jameson Lingl | Towards a general theory of conflict: An examination of zero-sum thinking in conflict dynamics at the intersection of systems, situations and psychology |
| Jimmy Maguru Mugisha | The ‘unexpected visitors’ and ‘good-host’ discourse: Social accountability, policy and realities of sexual and reproductive health of young people in two refugee settlements in Uganda |
| Kim Chi Tran | On being education nomads: How Mongolian herders' children straddle ways of knowing and relating. |
| Manuel Mindreau Montero | Green industrial policy, value chains and critical raw materials: the case of Brazil |
| Margaux Schulz | Fighting back against accumulation by dispossession: The territorialization of anti-neoliberal struggles - an immanent causality morphogenetic approach |
| Mausumi Moran Chetia | Ideas of home and human security for communities affected by disaster-displacement in India |
| Mohsen Yazdanpanah | On money, capitalism and development: An inquiry to the generative mechanism of capitalism |
| Nguyen Minh Quang | Mekong Delta before the flood: Climate policy and community action |
| Petronilla Wandeto | Neopatrimonialism, pockets of effectiveness and pro-poor policy-making: Competitive clientelism and agro-industrial policy-making in Ghana and Uganda |
| R. Matika | Questioning the guardians: socio-legal case study analyses of the independence of the electoral commissions of Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| Rafael Rosa Cedro | Policy paradigms, networks and practices: Analyzing change in the thinking about economic development influencing policy and strategy making in early-21st-century Brazil |
| Raimond Duijsens | Humanitarian consequences of urbanization for the Red Cross |
| Rima Rassi | Crisis of crisis management: Lebanon, UNHCR and the Syrian refugee influx |
| Saba Al Kuntar | Ways to survive, hurdles to cross: Refugee entrepreneurship and networking in precarity |
| Summer Brown | Understanding the power of the ‘local’ in manoeuvring between diverging and converging humanitarian and peacebuilding paradigms |
| Thandiwe Matthews | Advancing substantive equality and socio-economic rights: Contestations surrounding social assistance, elites and intersectional systemic inequalities in South Africa |
| Valentin Akayezu | |
| Xander Creed | Security and mobility: Theorizing and applying a human security framework in the field of migration governance |
| Yazid Zahda | Palestine: A case of neoliberalization |
| Yeshiwas Degu Belay | The role of the state, gender and politics in Ethiopian international peacekeeping |
| Yuyun Wahyunigrum | Human rights as a site of contestations in Asean regionalism |
| Zhiqi Xu | The policy innovation process of community-driven development in rural China and development actors' mindsets |
| Zuzana Reptova | Crises management and transitions in the European neighbourhood: How far beyond the liberal transition paradigm? |