Dr. Raji Matshedisho †, 2011-2014

Raji Matshedisho is now Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Rajohane Matshedisho was a research fellow at MPI-MMG. He is now a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has previously undertaken research for the Education Policy Unit (University of the Western Cape), the School of Public Health at University of Cape Town and the Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium), the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and the Africa Centre for Migration and Society (University of the Witwatersrand). His research interests include politics, policing and access to higher education for disabled students.

Research projects:

• GlobaldiverCities (‘GloDiv’) - Migration and new diversities in global cities: comparatively conceiving, observing and visualizing diversification in urban public spaces (completed) (Project leader: Steven Vertovec • Researchers: Sofya Aptekar, Anna Cieslik, Beate Engelbrecht, Dörte Ulka Engelkes, Laavanya Kathiravelu, Raji Matshedisho, Alexei Matveev, Anna Seegers-Krückeberg, Alex Wafer, Junjia Ye, Abbas Yousefpour)