Dr Alude Sinayo Mahali
TELEPHONE: 031 242 5542
EMAIL: amahali@hsrc.ac.za
Dr Alude Mahali is a Chief Research Specialist in the Inclusive Economic Development (IED) programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). She is an evidence-informed social science researcher responsible for conducting scholarly research that recognises South Africa?s complex social, educational, economic and political environment. She currently works mainly in the area of transforming higher education.
Dr Mahali's research expertise and experience includes youth social justice work by means of innovative visual and participatory methodologies, with a focus in the sociology of education. Alude was recently Principal Investigator on a project on civic education for youth and another on language policies and practices in South African Higher Education Institutions. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator on a longitudinal cohort study of African tertiary alumni of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars? Programme.
Alude has undertaken projects for the Department of Higher Education and Training, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, the Mastercard Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung amongst others. Dr Mahali was recently on the editorial board of the South African Theatre Journal and currently holds an honorary lecturer position in the Department of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu Natal.
Before joining the HSRC, she taught at the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) in Kingston, Jamaica and at the University of Cape Town.
Dr Mahali holds a Master's degree and PhD from the University of Cape Town. She spent a year of her PhD at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as a visiting scholar. Dr Mahali completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the HSRC in 2018.
Dr Mahali has published a number of journal articles, book chapters and research reports, including the important book, Studying while Black: race, education and emancipation in South African universities (2018). She has presented at many local and international conference, including several keynote addresses. Her most recent publications look at the domestic worker trope, youth activism, intersectional understandings of education and youth navigational capacities.
DGMT PSP Independent Monitoring and Evaluation
To independently review and evaluate the PSP Programme from 2016 - 2020, as per the agreement.....
Reflecting on current language policies and practices in South African Higher Education Institutions and reviewing strategies for development
Language is critical to higher education transformation as it impacts institutional culture, access and success. In 2008, the Report of the Ministeria....
Your Voice, Your Choice: democratic dialogues
For the young people enrolled, the aim is to demonstrate individual and collective agency by hosting dialogues for and by youth in schools, in faith b....
Studying while Black Dissemination activities
Dissemination activities for the Race Education and emancipation in SA universities....
A multidimensional understanding of wellbeing to address poverty and inequality in South Africa: A historical, methodological and practical approach
We propose a medium to long term programme of research that develops a critical and multidimensional understanding of wellbeing to address poverty and....
The Arts and development rethinking the South African creative economy
This research proposal outlines a project aimed at stimulating a research agenda on the topic of the arts and national development in South Africa and....
COE student or fellowship support Dr Alude Mahali
This proposal roughly outlines the beginning of an imagined far-reaching and significant research programme that principally investigates the ways in ....
Navigational capacities in contexts of adversity Establishing a consortium of global South youth scholars
This project seeks to contribute to the debate around the homogeneity/heterogeneity of youth studies and does so, through this accelerator activity pr....