Ruth Castel-Branco

Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Dr Ruth Castel Branco is a Senior Researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, where she coordinated the Future of Work(ers) research group. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include digitalization and the changing nature of work, worker organization and the formalization of informal workers, social protection and the redistributive role of the state.

Experience

2023–present

Senior Lecturer, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
2020–2021

Research Manager, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
2018–2020

Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
2013–2015

Project Coordinator, Social Protection, International Labour Office

Education

2021

University of the Witwatersrand, PhD
2012

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, MA
2005

University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA

Publications

2021

Improvising an e-State: the Struggle over Cash Transfer Digitalization in Mozambique, Development and Change
2021

The Contradictions of Formalization: Domesticity and Paid Domestic Work in Mozambique and Angola, e-Cadernos
2021

“Se alguém está cansado de viver”: A economia informal, o Estado e a segurança social, IESE

Grants and Contracts

2023

FutureWorks

Role:

Principal Investigator

Funding Source:

International Development Research Centre
2021

Inequality Fellowship

Role:

Fellow

Funding Source:

Open Society Foundation
2015

PhD Fellowship

Role:

Fellow

Funding Source:

International Centre for Development and Decent Work

Professional Memberships

African Studies Association
Instituto Estudos Sociais e Económicos
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
South African Sociological Association

Honours

Inequality Fellow, Open Society Foundations

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