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Doctoral Students
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Richard John Ahlschlager Email: richard.ahlschlager@gmail.com Dissertation Title: A framework for implementing sustainable development for cities based primarily on a value based system thinking approach. Research interests: With widespread and growing urbanisation, many cities seem to be struggling to develop along a sustainable trajectory. I am interested in assessing approaches based on formulation of the developmental value based mission for beneficiaries, the developmental context from a system perspective and the primary mechanism of governance and implementation within an increasingly complex and ambiguous environment. |
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Lindsay Bush Email: ambush.urbanism@gmail.com Dissertation Title: ‘A model for high quality, integrated high-rise urban living: Learning from Durban’s beachfront.’ Research interests: Co-creation, the ‘modern family’ and the New Commons, Spatializing South African identity, culture and community, Urban verticality and spatial justice: Mixed-income high density housing, Architecture, fear and joy. |
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Mohammud Anwar Noorani Jahangeer Email: ngudoung@gmail.com Dissertation Title: ‘Shifting Territories: Towards a methodology for a creative emancipatory approach to place-making, the role of spaza shops in Cornubia, Blackburn, KZN.’ Research interests: Creativity. |
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Ntobeko Mlotshwa Email: untobekoncube@gmail.com Dissertation Title: Learning with Informal Waste Pickers in Durban: Lessons for waste picker integration into environmentally just municipal waste management systems. Research interests: Informal work, informal settlements; Participatory planning; urban and rural planning and development; Circular economy; Southern urbanism; environmental, spatial and social justice. |
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Temitope Olaniran Email: 21647958@dut4life.ac.za Dissertation Title: ‘Mixed-income Housing Models as Enhanced Housing Delivery Model in South Africa: A Comparative Focus on Cornubia in Durban and Cosmocity in Johannesburg.’ Research interests: Low-cost Housing, Mixed-income Housing, Mega Human Settlements, Inclusive Cities. |
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Mthabiso Lethukuthula Phungula Email: mthabisophungula@gmail.com Dissertation Title: “Problematizing gender in actions for transformative climate adaptation in eThekwini Municipality: towards localizing efforts to address global environmental change.” Research interests: Urban development, climate adaptation, sustainability, and human geography. |
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Vaughn Sadie Email: vaughnsadie@gmail.com Dissertation Title: ‘Dilemmas and solutions for developing an effective management arrangement for community driven public art: An exploration of Cosmo City.’ Research interests: As an artist and researcher, I’m interested in interdisciplinary and participatory practices, and the place of art in a social context. Through site-specific work and participatory practice, I have worked collaboratively with theatre makers, choreographers and researchers on various projects, to develop alternative ways of perceiving and engaging with a city. |
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Haroon Wadee Email: haroonwadee@gmail.com Dissertation Title: ‘An ethnography of street level whoonga use: exploring survival strategies, social capital and moral economy.’ Research interests: |
Doctoral Students (Graduated)
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Tanya Dayaram Email: TanyaD@dut.ac.za Dissertation Title: ‘The role of business support interventions in promoting spatial justice: A case study of informal economic development in a residential zone, eThekwini (Ward 68)’ Research interests: Urban everything |
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Tilmann Feltes Email: 21451826@dut4life.ac.za Dissertation Title: ‘Urban Transformation at a local level: The case of Durban’s 100 resilient cities campaigning’ Research interests: Urban Governance, Urbanisation, Resilience and Transformation, Human Geography |
Masters Students
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Thevan Harry Email: thevanharry8@gmail.com Dissertation Title: Deviance or Counter-Culture: Tattooing within the Durban Metro Police Department Research interests: The Struggle for Non-Racial Sport; The history of costume in the Durban Local History Museums Collection; Liberation Heritage Route; Reflections of the COVID-19 pandemic within the eThekwini Municipality; “Coloured Identity” within eThekwini Municipality. |
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Luvolwethu Brilliant Khasa Research interests: Health Sciences, Psychosocial issues and Homoeopathy |
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Saiesh Surujbally Research interests: Holistic Treatment of ADHD, The Psychological Approach to Video Games. |
Masters Students (Graduated)
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Ntobeko Mlotshwa Research interests: Informal settlements, Rural development, Participatory planning, Informal economy |
