Elena and Jill Samukimba’s chapter, Becoming a Father in South Africa: Customary Practices and Negotiating Fatherhood, has been published in Parenting Across Cultures: Childrearing, Motherhood…
Category: In The News
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2023 Feminist Economics Summer School
Elena will be speaking at the 2023 Feminist Economics Summer School with the Institute for Economic Justice. The theme for 2023 is Social Reproduction and…
COPSAN Workshop at LSE
Last week, a group of the COPSAN members met for a one-day workshop at the LSE. After two years of online meetings we were able…
Women of the World: DVC Research & Internationalisation and Faculty of Health Sciences
Elena will be joining a host of women at the Inter-faculty Research Hybrid Event on the 17th of November 2022. Join online or in person…
Distinguished Teacher Award, 2021
Yay! Elena was awarded the Distinguished Teacher Award, 2021. The Distinguished Teacher Award is the highest accolade awarded to teaching staff at all levels within…
Policies addressing older persons, the family and intergenerational relations in sub-Saharan Africa: United Nations
Happy to report that my time in Kenya with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs was a success! I presented on Family…
Rethinking Economics For Africa Festival 2022
I joined Sarah Mosoetsa at the #REFAFestival on the 16th of September to speak about New Economic Futures. Our session focused on Debunking the idea…
Book launch: Gender, Generation and Negotiating Custom in South Africa
Gender, Generation and Negotiating Custom in South Africa book launch will be hosted at the African Gender Institute on the 20th of October 2022 5pm…
UN Talk: Policies addressing older persons, the family and intergenerational relations in sub-Saharan Africa
Very excited to be asked to present a paper on Family Care of Older Persons at a UN workshop in Kenya at the end of…
Covid-19 and the retreat of state childcare provision: a cross-national overview
I am delighted to say that our special issue proposal on COVID-19 and childcare has been accepted by Critical Social Policy. The proposed themed section…