Hangala Siachiwena
Hangala Siachiwena is a postdoctoral researcher with the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa (IDCPPA), at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he is part of the Social Policy and Afrobarometer Data Management research teams. Hangala is a member of the Zambia Elections Research Network and work with the University of Gothenberg’s program on Governance and Local Development. Hangala obtained a DPhil from UCT’s Sociology department, for a thesis that focused on how and why changes of government affect policy making on social cash transfer programs in Malawi and Zambia. His research methods combine qualitative process-tracing and quantitative household survey data methods and his interests include social protection, social policy, public policy, the politics of development, and elections and democracy. During his stay at SDU, Hangala will be working on research papers on social cash transfer in Malawi and Zambia, building on his PhD, which he will present in workshops and seminars at the Danish Centre for Welfare studies. Together with his mentor Marianne, he will discuss potential research ideas for future collaboration between JUST SOCIETY and the IDCPPA.
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Siddardha Darla
Siddardha Darla is an engineer turned social anthropologist from India, with a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is currently a Assistant Professor at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management. He has formal educational training in the fields of Sociology and Anthropology from eminent public universities in India. Siddardha's research interests include understanding resistance and persuasion to neoliberal regime of land dispossession in India and development agenda that encapsulates it, and has published in the reputed Economic and Political Weekly and presented at several national and international conferences. Whilst visiting, Siddardha will work on his study, which examines the radical potential of rights-based discourse in people’s politics to understand the notion of citizenship that is being legitimized in the development process. His mentor is Monika Lindbekk.
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