CURRICULUM VITAE

SUSAN PARNELL

1.PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of birth:13 November 1960

Citizenship:South African

Marital status:Married (Owen Crankshaw, 14 December 1998)

Postal address:Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa.

Telephone:(27 21) 790-6702 home

(27 21) 650-2877 work

Fax:(27 21) 650-3456

EMail:

Present position:Professor, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town.

2.ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1993:Ph.D., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1987:M.A., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1984:B.A., (Hons.), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (First Class).

1982:H.Dip.Ed. (P.G.), University of the Witwatersrand, (Distinction, Teaching Experience).

1982:B.A., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1977:Matric, (Distinction, Geography).

3.ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2006:Professor – University of Cape Town

1997-2005:Associate Professor - University of Cape Town

1994-1997:Senior Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand

1994/5:Part time Lecturer – School of Oriental and African Studies1995

Occasional Tutor - University of Oxford

1988-1993:Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand

1987:Majortime Lecturer University of the Witwatersrand

1986:Majortime Tutor University of the Witwatersrand

4.RESEARCH AND MERIT AWARDS

2007- 2011:CIDAUniversity Partnership for Developing Countries (CAD $3.5 million) (co Principle Investigator)

2007:National Research Foundation (Swedish South Africa programme R75 000)

2005:University of Cape Town Research Committee (minor grants)

2003:University of Cape Town meritorious book award

2001:LondonSchool of Economics,Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (£4400)

1998/9:University of Oxford, Oppenheimer Research Fellowship (£3650)

1998/9: MansfieldCollege, Visiting Research Fellowship (Hillary term)

1997, 1999:University of Cape Town, University Research Committee

(Annual grants of R10 000 – R15 000)

1997:Mellon Foundation Grant (R25 000)

1996: Global Change and Social Transformation (R17 500)

1995:C.S.D. Post-Doctoral Fellowship (R44 000)

1994:Wits Overseas Research Appeal (R1 500)

1994/5:BritishAcademy Visiting Fellowship (£1 500)

1994/5:Wits, Anderson Capelli Overseas Sabbatical Grant (R25 000)

1994/5:Wits, Council Overseas Fellowship (R60 000)

1993:Wits, Council Grant for the Human and Social Sciences (one term leave replacement)

1992:Human Sciences Research Council Ad Hoc Grant (R7 500)

1989-1994:Wits, University Research Committee (Annual grants of R3 500-R10 000)

1985:Frank Bicheno Merit Scholarship – Geography (fees and expenses)

19791982:Pretoria Portland Cement Scholarship (tuition and living expenses)

1978:Rotary Exchange Scholarship, USA

5.COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate:Social and Economic Geography of Southern Africa (2nd year)

Urban Geography Practicals (1 st and 3rd year)

Cities of the South (2nd year)

Cities of the North (3rd year)

Cultural Geography (1 st year)

Postgraduate: Geography Teaching Methodology (H.D.E)

Theoretical Issues in Geography for Educationalist (Honours)

The Historical Geography of South African Cities (Honours/Masters)

Urban Geography (Honours/Masters)

Human Settlement (Masters)

6.POST GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION (at uct)

Current Students

Miriam Murambadoro: Assessing the causes of urban food insecurity: A case study of a high-density suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe’ (M.Phil)

Leila Mohamed: City Energy Strategies (M. Phil)

Victor Thomas: Measuring urban food security in 12 Southern African Cities (Msc)

Pierre Mukheibir: Water resource management strategies for small municipalities in arid regions in South Africa in the context of climate change (co Supervision) (PhD)

Ntombini Marriange: The role of local government in social protection in cities with an HIV pandemic (PhD)

Matura Sadan: – The competing conceptions of poverty in post apartheid South African public policy (PhD)

Nisa Mammon : Urban land in post apartheid Cape Town (Phd)

Post Doctoral Fellows

2006: Charlott Lemansky (OxfordUniversity), LeverhulmeFoundation

2003-2007: Jane Battersby (OxfordUniversity), NRF and CIDA

2002-2003: Laila Smith (ClarkUniversity), NRF

PhD

2007 Julie Browne,- Policy communities, urban transformation and local governance: A research study on the intersections of local knowledge and post apartheid urban

2006 Orli Bass, D(Urban) – an AfricanCity

2006 Harald Winkler (co supervision), Energy policies for sustainable development in South Africa’s residential and electricity sectors: implications for climate change mitigation

2004 Leanne Scott (co supervision), Multi Criteria decision making and poverty indicators for developmental local government

2002: Antjie Nahsen (external supervisor with University of Berlin), Fear and Desire in central Cape Town

M. A and Msc

2006: Becky Cullis (co-supervision),Financing wind energy in the Western Cape

2006: Danielle Fontein,Poverty and Vulnerability:Qualitative Concepts and Spatial Mapping: An Analytical Critique

2006: Jacqui Borel Saldin (co –supervision) Professionalisation or polarization? Economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town’s labour market

2005: Sally Engeldouw The strategic assessment of a curbside recycling initiative in Cape Town as a tool for integrated waste management

1998: Chris Patton Access for the disabled in South African National Parks

2001: Sam Fuller,Graphic depictions of TableMountain – a cultural geography

2001: Mike Poyser, Asthma morbidity and mortality in children in Cape Town

1999: Anthea Stephens, Looking beyond boundaries: (co)-managing natural and urban areas on the CapePeninsula

1999: Najma Mohamed, Healing the land: monitoring transformation and agricultural sustainability on a Western Cape land reform project

M Phil

2004: Brigit Ndombo Cultural representations of space in environmental management

2003: Tomas Cousins (with distinction) – ‘The meaning of climate change’- an anthropological perspective

2003: Margie Mathews Issues of climate change for cities – the case of Cape Town.

2003: Margaret Mondlane Social Development issues on the forestry sector

2003: Asha Mistri Traditional healers in Cape Town and the transfer of knowledge from rural to urban area

2000: Briony Liber, Urbanization in Namibia

7.EXTERNAL EXAMINER

I have been the course examiner for: University of Natal, Durban, Development Studies, Masters Coursework; University of the Western Cape, Geography Masters Coursework Dissertations; University of the Witwatersrand, Post Graduate School of Public and Development Management; Johannesburg College of Education (degree candidates); Guiyani College of Education.

I have been the external examiner on individual Master’s and PhD degrees from theUniversity of Stellenbosch, University of the Western Cape, the University of Natal, Durban, University of Port Elizabeth, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Hamburg.

8.UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIONAND COMMITTEES

2006-: UCT Senate

2006-: UCT Physical Planning and Landscape Working Group

2004-:UCT Senate Academic Planning Working Group

2004-2007:UCT Social Responsiveness Task Team

2004:-UCT Space Allocation Committee (Chair)

2004-:UCTUniversityBuilding and Development Committee

2000-: UCT Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Faculty Board

2000-2007: UCT Faculty of Science, Accreditation Committee (Chair 2005)

1999-2005: UCT Faculty of Science, Ethics Committee

1999-: UCT Faculty of Science Research Committee

1999 - 2001: UCT Faculty of Science Dean’s Advisory Committee

1997 -: UCT, Science Faculty Board

1998-1999:UCT, Programme Committee for Development Studies; Environment and Society, and Individual, Society and Environment

1997-1999:UCT African Studies Library Committee

1997-2000: UCT, Arts Faculty Board

2006: Acting Head of Department

1995-1996:Wits, Faculty of Arts Higher Degrees Committee

1994/1996:Wits, Faculty of Arts Executive Committee

1994:Wits, Senate Humanities Advisory Committee

1994:Wits, Senate Library Committee

1994:Wits, Academic Board (Senate Representative)

19931994:Wits, Senate Committee on Salaries and Conditions of Service

19921994:Wits, Senate (Lecturer Representative)

19921993:Wits, Education Faculty Policy and Planning Committee

19921993:Wits, Education Faculty Executive Committee

19911996:Wits, Arts Faculty Board

19911994:Wits, Faculty of Arts Admissions Policy Committee

19911993:Wits, Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Committee

19911993:Wits, Education Faculty Research Committee

19911992:Wits, Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Committee

19891991:Wits, Faculty of Arts Admissions Committee (Deputy Chairperson, 1991)

19891990:Wits, Science Education Committee

19881993:Wits, Curriculum Studies Standing Committee (Chairperson 1992-1993)

19881993:Wits, Education Faculty Board

19871993:Wits, Curriculum Studies Committee (ViceChairperson, 19921993)

9.EDITORIAL BOARDS

ACME ( (2000-2007)

University of Cape Town Press (2000-)

Africa Perspective (1985-1987)

African Studies (1995-1998; 2003-)

Geografiska Annaler B (2002-)

Journal of Historical Geography (1995-2005)

Development Southern Africa (1996-1997; 2000-)

Journal of Social and Cultural Geography (1998-)

Urban Affairs Review (2004-)

Urban Forum (Book Review Editor 1998-2001)

Urban Studies (2004-)

10.REFEREE FOR JOURNAL AND MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS

David Philip Publishers, Cape Town;

Applied Geography

Development Southern Africa

Economic Geography

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Geografiska Annaler

Geographical Journal

GeoJournal

Huishoudkunde

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Journal of Economic and Social Geography

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Journal of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences

Journal of Modern African Studies

Natural Resources Forum

Perspectives in Education

Political Geography

South African Geographical Journal

Society in Transition

Transformation

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

University of Cape Town Press

Urban Affairs

Urban Affairs Review

Urban Forum

Urban Studies

WitsUniversity Press

11. RESEARCH PROJECT ADVISORY PANELS

Children’s Institute (UCT) – Means to Live (2004-2005)

City of Johannesburg – Human Development Agenda (2004)

Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism - Sustainable coastal livelihoods (2001-2002)

Department of Provincial and Local Government - National performance indicators (2000);

Department of Provincial and Local Government - National Urban Strategy (2003-2004)

DFID, London - Expert Panel on City Development Strategies (2001-2002)

HSRC – South African Cities (2003-2006)

LondonSchool of Economics – Crisis States Programme (2006-)

South African Cities Network – State of City Energy Report (2007)

South African Cities Network – State of the Cities Report (2004)

South African Presidency - The Monitoring and Evaluation of Policy in South Africa: Appropriate alignment across the spheres and functions of government (2005)

South African Report to World Summit on Sustainable Development (2001-2002)

UCT/UWC PGWC Public Health – Burden of Disease in the Western Cape (2006- 2009)

University of Natal, City of Durban Project (1997-1998)

Women’s Budget (1997- 1998)

12. PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY POSITIONS

International Human Dimensions Programme – Urban Group Scientific Steering Committee (2003-)

National Research Foundation – Post Graduate Scholarships Committee (2000-2003)

National Research Foundation – Sustainable Livelihood Panel (2000-2004)

Planact - Founding Member

South African Environmental Observatory Network – Technical Steering Committee (2003-)

South African Scientific Committee for Global Change (2002-)

UCT, Centre for Cities in Africacore group (2006-)

UCT, Centre For Social Science Research (2001-2005)

UCT, Urban Problems Research Unit (1997 - 2001)

WHO Collaborating Centre for Urban Health (MRC, City of Joburg, WitsUniversity, University of Johannesburg) (2004-)

13.RESEARCH SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

CambridgeUniversity, Geography

CNRS, Paris

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London

LoughboroughUniversity of Technology, Geography

Queen Mary and WestfieldCollege, Geography

School of Oriental and African Studies, Geography

UniversityCollegeLondon, Geography

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Connecticut, Storrs

University of Oxford, Social Geography and Southern Africa Seminars, MansfieldCollege

University of Paris, Southern African Studies Seminar Group

University of Johannesburg

Wits, Institute for Advanced Social Research

Wits, Public and Development Management

Woodrow Wilson Institute, WashingtonD.C.

14.NGO BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Gender Advocacy Programme (1998-2001)

Isandla Institute (1998- )

Mandlovo – Memory, development and urban transformation (2000-2002)

Sustainable Energy Africa(2004-)

15. APPLIED RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCIES

  • CapeMetro Council – (Metropolitan poverty reduction framework, 1998)
  • Cape Town City Council – (Poverty indicators for a performance management system, 1999;
  • City of Cape Town – (Indigent policy, 2003; economic and human development strategy, 2005)
  • Common Ground – (Coastal Management Policy Programme – (Poverty))
  • Common Ground – (Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism – Working for Water External Review (2002)
  • Commonwealth Local Government Association - (Evaluation of poverty reduction in Oostenburg Municipality, 2000-2002)
  • Danida (Design of local government, knowledge management and civil society support 2005)
  • Department for Constitutional Development (Poverty and local government, 1999)
  • Department for International Development, London ESCOR– (Poverty, partnership and urban governance, Johannesburg case study, 1998-2001)
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Design of the support programme for local government 1998 and 2002)
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Design of the support programme for the restructuring of state owned assets, 2002)
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Environment and poverty in southern Africa, 2001)
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Swaziland Water Services Review – poverty specialist, 2001)
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Lesotho – Water sector, urban and poverty specialist, 2001;
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Social and environmental specialist in the design of the Consolidated Municipal Transformation Programme, 2002)
  • Department For International Development, Pretoria - (Mid term review of SCAPE, 2003)
  • Department of Provincial and Local Government - (National Urban Poverty Study – lead consultant 2002)
  • Development Action Group – (Background paper for SANGOCO poverty hearings, 1998)
  • Development Bank of Southern Africa – (Social issues in the new local government framework 2000; Linking the IDP to the budget in the City of Cape Town, 2002; Urban input to Development Report, 2005)
  • Environmental Evaluation Unit, UCT (Specialist consultant - design of social impact system for the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, 2003)
  • German Technical Co-operation – (Gender, poverty and Integrated Development Planning, 1999)
  • GHK International – (Johannesburg’s City Development Strategy – is it pro-poor? 2002)
  • Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (Framework for monitoring social and political exclusion, 2001)
  • International Human Dimensions Programme – (Expert review of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change – Science Plan, 2004)
  • Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa – (Women’s Budget – housing, 1997)
  • Joburg City Council (Review of ‘iGoli 2002’, 2003).
  • Joburg Development Agency (Facilitation of inner city poverty strategy, 2003)
  • National Treasury (Review of poverty relief programmes, 2003)
  • OECDTerritorialReview Cape Town (2007/8)
  • Palmer Development Group – (Gender and poverty issues in devising a national tariff policy, expert panel on key performance indicators, 2000; poverty specialist on national indigent policy, 2004)
  • Planning Partnership, Cape Town (Social Exclusion – issues for urban planners, 2000)
  • Provincial Government of the Western Cape–(Review of the Integrated Law Reform Process,2005; co-author Provincial Growth and Development Strategy, 2006)
  • South African Presidency (Lead author - Urban Strategy, 2005/6)
  • South African National Housing Forum – (A review of issues surrounding the proposed housing subsidy, 1994)
  • Statistics South Africa (Millennium Development Goal – author of report on MDG7/11)
  • Swedish International Development Agency – (Gender training for South African municipalities; background study on the changing South African urban context, 1998)
  • United Nations – INSTRAW – (Gender and South African housing delivery – Habitat II, 1996)
  • United Nations Development Programme – Lesotho (Human Development Report - chapter on social exclusion, 2001)
  • Urban Foundation – (Review of the literature on the World Bank, 1983)
  • Urban Sector Network – (Handbook on Developmental Local Government, 1998)
  • Western Cape Provincial Government (Co-author Provincial Growth and Development Strategy, 2006, Cape Town Functional Region, 2007)

16.CONFERENCE PAPERS

2007: Academic policy interface in South Africa, Brazil South Africa urban collaboration, IPPUR, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (invited participant).

2007: The academic -policy interface in post apartheid urban research – personal reflections, South African Geographical Society Conference, Port Elizabeth.

2007: Realising the ‘right to the city’: institutional imperatives for tackling urban poverty, ‘Living on the margins, Centre for Chronic Poverty, Plaas and Isandla, Cape Town.

2006: Local Economic Development in South Africa, University of Roskilede Copenhagen, Denmark (invited speaker)

2006: The imperative of including the human dimension in earth systems observation – a view from South Africa, South AfricanEnvironmental Observation Conference, NRF Pretoria (invited speaker)

2006: World Urban Forum Vancouver (invited panellist on Global Environmental Change)

2005: Cape Town 2025, Isandla Institute and City of Cape Town (invited panellist)

2004: Origin nature and continuity of structural underdevelopment of South African cities, International Conference on Overcoming underdevelopment in South Africa’s second economy, Hosted by UNDP, HSRC and DBSA, Pretoria, (Invited Speaker).

2004: Gentrification and the poor, Cities in Change – Conference of the South African Planning Institute, Johannesburg, (Invited Speaker).

2004: Local Economic Development and Poverty Reduction – the role of local government, South African Local Government Association, Cape Town (Invited Speaker).

2003: Tariffs and sustainability in urban governance, New Urbanism Conference, HavanaCuba.

2003: Millennium Development Goals, Canadian Consulate UK and IIED, LondonEngland, (Invited participant)

2003: Who runs Africa’s most powerful city? Rethinking the sites of urban power in democratic Joburg, Reflections on South African Cities, Open University, England, (Invited participant)

2003: Measuring and monitoring urban poverty in South Africa, Chronic Poverty Group, University of Manchester, England, (Invited participant)

2003: The problem of urban poverty, District Council Hologram Conference, Goudini Spa, (Invited Speaker).

2002: Urban Poverty in South Africa, invited participant, World Bank, Washington Dc, USA.

2002: Sustainable Cities in South Africa, Invited Panel of the International Social Science Council, ViennaAustria.

2002: Beyond Segregation – a social exclusion perspective for SouthAfricanCities, International Geographical Union, Durban (with S. Oldfield).

2002: Race, industrialization and the struggle for urban control: managing Johannesburg slums in early twentieth century, Historical Geography Workshop, Brighton England.

2001: Beyond Segregation: India/South Africa seminar, Paris, (Invited Speaker).

2001: Social exclusion in Johannesburg, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.

2000: Changes in the Colonial Office’s attitude to urban Africa, 1939-1945, International Urban History, Helsinki, Finland.

2000: Race, industrialization and the struggle for urban control: managing Johannesburg slums in early twentieth century, Planning History, University of Natal, Durban.

2000: Invited participant on panel on Urban Governance, African Solutions: Towards Sustainable Urban Development, CSIR, Pretoria.

1999: National Population Council, Johannesburg, WorldCities in Poor Countries, WashingtonDC. USA

1999: Local government’s delivery challenge, Foundation for Contemporary Research Workshop on ‘Making your IDP Work’, Cape Town.

1999: Developmental local government and post apartheid poverty alleviation, Institute of British Geographers, Leicester.

1988: Developmental local government and post apartheid poverty alleviation, Cities at the Millennium, Royal Institute of Architects, London.

1998: Developmental local government and post apartheid poverty alleviation, City of Durban Conference, Durban (With E. Pieterse).