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Mr K Mokgele

Junior Lecturer | College of Human Sciences
School of Social Sciences | Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies

Email: emokgekm@unisa.ac.za
Campus: Muckleneuk Campus
Building: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

  • BA Psychology (University of Johannesburg)
  • BA Hons Industrial Sociology with Distinction (University of Johannesburg)
  • MA Demography and Population Studies (University of Witwatersrand)
  • MA Sociology with Distinction (University of Johannesburg)

GEN4803 - Gender and Representation

  • Masculinity
  • Gender Inequality
  • Intersectionality
  • Individual and Collective Identities
  • Social Movements
  • Student Movemens
  • Masculinity
  • Male identity
  • Gender Inequality
  • Feminism

  • Identity
  • Individual and collective identity
  • Social Movements
  • Intersectionality
  • Masculinity

  • Mokgele, K. forthcoming, 2023. Embracing individual Identity: Intersecting Identities, a powerful tool for ushering social change. In Watson, J. (editor). Striving for Social Equity. (forthcoming)

  • Alexander, P., Runciman, C., Ngwane, T., Moloto, B., Mokgele, K., and van Staden, N. 2018. Frequency and turmoil: South Africa’s community protests 2005–201, South African Crime Quarterly, 63 
  • Mokgele, K. 2022. Silence is being used as a powerful tool in today's student movements: A case study of student activists at the University of Pretoria. Gender Questioning. (Currently under review)

Awards

  • 2018 recipient of the Faculty of Humanities' Top Achievers award. The University of Johannesburg.
  • MA Bursary awarded by the NRF South African Research Chair in Social Change. 2016-2018. University of Johannesburg
  • Dean’s list honours top achievers in the faculty of humanities. 2015. University of Johannesburg
  • Honours Bursary awarded by the NRF South African Research Chair in Social Change. 2015 Sociology 3rd-year Researcher Project Award. 2013. University of Johannesburg.
  • Dean’s list for second-year top achievers in the Faculty of Humanities. 2012. University of Johannesburg

Positions

  • Researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg. March 2021 – January 2022 
  • Research Executive, Ipsos South Africa. January 2018 – February 2021   
  • Senior Research Assistant, Centre for Social Change. August 2016 – November 2018

  • Protest Beyond Numbers. An ACLED Analysis of Protests in Africa. Centre for Social Change, 2018.
  • Covid-19 Country Report – Chapter 8. Community organizing during the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. Centre for Social Change 2021.