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Ms Pragna Rugunanan
Lecturer in the UJ Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Humanities
Biographical
Pragna Rugunanan is a lecturer and doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. She currently serves on the executive of the South African Sociological Association. Pragna has also conducted skills based training in a number of manufacturing concerns such Ford Motor Company, Cadbury's Ltd and other Manufacturing concerns. She is a participant in an NRF funded research project on Family Well-Being and Resilience and is currently involved in research on Asian immigrant communities in South Africa. Her research interests include the changing patterns of work, social networks, social identity, and migrant communities.
Qualifications
SAIM Programme in Business Management, Unisa, 2004
MA Industrial Sociology cum laude, University of Pretoria, 1999
B Soc Science (Honours) Industrial Sociology, Rhodes University, 1990
B Soc Science, Rhodes University, 1989
Research Interests
Sociology of Work and Labour Studies; Social Identity and Social networks; Group Dynamics; Globalisation; Family and Well-being; Migrant studies
Teaching experience
Demography; Sociology of work; Family & Gender studies; Group Dynamics; Methodology
Academic Citizenship
Participant in Citizenship and Social Capital research project: 2008 onwards
Participant in Family, Well-Being and Resilience project, 2008 onwards
Member of the South African Sociological Association, 2008 - present
Member of the International Sociological Association, 2008 - present
SASA Treasurer, 2009-2010
Recent Papers and Publications
Rabe, M. & Rugunanan, P. Forthcoming. ‘Exploring race and gender amongst female sociologists exiting academia in South Africa’. South African Journal of Higher Education. Forthcoming in 2011
Rabe, M. & Rugunanan, P. 2009. ‘Where have all the women gone? Exploring the career paths and well-being of female sociologists in South Africa.’ Paper presented at the South African Sociological Association’s Congress, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (28 June – 2 July 2009).
Rugunanan, P. & Rabe, M. 2009. ‘"It's Reigning Men?" Comparing the Experiences and sense of well-being of Male and Female Social Scientists Leaving Academia’. Paper presented at the Southern African Nordic Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 7-10 December, 2009.
Rugunanan, P.; Seedat-Khan, M. & Smuts L. 2009. ‘A Sense of South African Indianness: Citizenship, Identity and Experiences of Exclusion at the Oriental Plaza in Johannesburg, South Africa.’ Paper presented at the South African Sociological Association’s Congress, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (28 June – 2 July 2009).
Rugunanan, P. 2009. ‘Human smuggling at South African ports of entry.’ Paper presented at the University of Johannesburg’s Sociology, Anthropology & Development Studies Wednesday Seminar Series.
Yung Park, Yoon & Rugunanan, P. 2009. ‘Visible and Vulnerable: Asian migrant communities in South Africa’. Presented at Civil Society Responses to Xenophobia attacks in South Africa workshop, October 2009. This research is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies.
Contact Details
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 4020
Fax: + 27 (0)11 559 3787
Auckland Park Kingsway Campus: CRing 634
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