Our Team
Becky Walker
Becky Walker is a postdoctoral research fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS). With a background in Social Anthropology and Development, Becky’s work explores women’s experiences of everyday violence in both South Asia and Southern Africa.
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Greta Schuler
Greta Schuler is a PhD candidate in creative writing and a doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS). Her research focuses on the lives of migrant sex workers in Johannesburg. Greta is involved in facilitating creative writing workshops with sex workers, and coordinates the Izwi Lethu newsletter project, as part of MoVE.
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Jo Vearey
Jo Vearey is an Associate Professor and the Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She holds an Honorary Fellowship with the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Senior Fellowship at the Centre for Peace, Development and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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John Marnell
John Marnell is a doctoral researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS). His work uses visual and narrative methodologies to explore the lived experiences of LGBTIQ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
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Lenore Longwe
Lenore Longwe is the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) operations manager. She has a degree in Public Administration from the University of the Western Cape. Her previous employment includes project administrator at Umsubomvu Youth Fund and Admin Coordinator at Robben Island Museum.
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Ntokozo Yingwana
Ntokozo Yingwana joined the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), at the University of the Witwatersrand) in April 2016 as the Communication and Research Uptake Officer, and a PhD Candidate.
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Quinten Edward Williams
Quinten Edward Williams is a Johannesburg based artist. Arts-based research projects provide him with the opportunity to work with nuanced relationships that are embedded in specific places.
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Tackson Makandwa
Tackson Makandwa is a postdoctoral research fellow. He worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Great Zimbabwe University, and as a processing officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs before joining the ACMS, where he also undertook an MA in Migration & Displacement.
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Thea de Gruchy
Thea de Gruchy is a postdoctoral research fellow and has been at the ACMS since undertaking her MA in Migration & Displacement in 2013. Her PhD was funded through a Wellcome Trust doctoral fellowship, awarded through maHp, and explored the making and effects of policy around migration and health for migrant farm workers in Vhembe District, Limpopo.
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