Research & Teaching

Research & Teaching

My work sits at the intersection of labour, technology, and development in the Global South, combining doctoral and masters research with teaching and conference engagement.

Dissertations

Fourth industrial banking: case studies into digitising banking models and the foreseeable effects in South Africa

Master of Philosophy in Development Studies, awarded with Distinction

Borderless Jobs; Bordered Livelihoods: Migrants navigating E-Hailing Platform Work in Cape Town

Doctoral research in Industrial Sociology

Teaching

Comparative Industrial Labour Studies: Informality

University of Cape Town

This course examines the changing nature of industrial and labour relations in comparative perspective, with a particular focus on informality, precarious work, and the institutional contexts that shape workers' lives across Global South economies.

Conference Papers

Gearing the 4th Industrial Revolution towards Climate Compatible Development in Africa

Masheleni, Celine, Cobban, Leigh and Rennkamp, Britta (2019). Conference paper presented at the African Research University Alliance (ARUA) Second Biennial Conference: Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities, University of Nairobi, 18–20 November 2019.

Scholarships & Awards

  • Canon Collins Trust

    Canon Collins Trust Scholarship

    Alumni

  • University of Cape Town

    UCT JW Jagger Scholarship

    Alumni