Ruth Castel-Branco

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Profile Articles Activity

Dr Ruth Castel Branco is a Senior Researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, where she coordinated the Future of Work(ers) research group. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include digitalization and the changing nature of work, worker organization and the formalization of informal workers, social protection and the redistributive role of the state.

Experience

• 2023–present Senior Lecturer, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
• 2020–2021 Research Manager, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
• 2018–2020 Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
• 2013–2015 Project Coordinator, Social Protection, International Labour Office

Education

• 2021 University of the Witwatersrand, PhD
• 2012 University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, MA
• 2005 University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA

Publications

• 2021 Improvising an e-State: the Struggle over Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique, Development and Change
• 2021 The Contradictions of Formalization: Domesticity and Paid Domestic Work in Mozambique and Angola, e-Cadernos
• 2021 “Se alguém está cansado de viver”: A economia informal, o Estado e a segurança social, IESE

Grants and Contracts

• 2023 FutureWorks Role: Principal Investigator Funding Source: International Development Research Centre
• 2021 Inequality Fellowship Role: Fellow Funding Source: Open Society Foundation
• 2015 PhD Fellowship Role: Fellow Funding Source: International Centre for Development and Decent Work

Professional Memberships

• African Studies Association
• Instituto Estudos Sociais e Económicos
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
• South African Sociological Association

Honours

Inequality Fellow, Open Society Foundations

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