David and Elaine Potter doctoral and masters fellowship programme,
University of Cape Town

Scholar   Degree   Year/s   Research Project/Thesis
Ms Babalwa Cwane   MBibl Library Science   2004-2005   The role of information & communication technologies in development: the telecentre approach in South Africa
Ms Susan Moses   MA Sociology   2004-2005   How do space and place matter? The role of neighbourhood level factors on the lives of children and young people living in a Cape Town community established under Apartheid.
Mr Graham Rowe   MSc Botany   2004-2005   Speciation and phylogeography: coalescent based models applied to the Cape plant genus Pauridia
Ms Trish Zweig   MSc Environmental and Geographical Science   2004-2005   The Lagunya lacuna: legacies of housing allocation policy and practice in the 1980s and 1990s in New Crossroads, Cape Town
Ms Jacqui Friedling   PhD Human Biology   2004-2006 2007-
extra award of
R40 000
  Grave Tales: an osteological assessment of health and lifestyle from 18th and 19th century burial sites around Cape Town
Mr Ross Esson   MCom Applied Economics   2005-2006   Formal and informal financial services - providing access to the poor
Ms Robyn Rorke   MSc Environmental & Geographical Science   2005-2006   The good, the bad - or something else entirely? What the City of Cape Town’s Indigent Policy reveals about the post-apartheid state.
Mr Haydn Tilley   MA Clinical Psychology   2005-2006 2007   The trauma & narratives of adult burn survivors: a South African perspective
Ms Michelle van der Ventel   MSc (Med) Clinical Science & Immunology   2005-2006   Development of a murine model of pilchard allergy
Ms Thabang Mokgethi   MSc (Med) Immunology   2005-2006   Investigating the efficacy and safety of South African medicinal plants against mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Mr Myer Taub   PhD Drama   2005-2007   Lessons From The Aftermath
Ms Munirah Mangerah   MSocS - Clinical Psychology   2006-2007   The impact of caregiving on grandmothers caring for OVCs (orphaned and vulnerable children)
Ms Mellony Spark   MSc Astrophysics & Space Science   2006   New telescope technologies for testing theories of mass transfer in dwarf novae
Mr Stuart Bird   MFA Humanities   2006-2007   The Grapes of Wrath: the rule of satire in South Africa and in a broader international art context
Mr N Swart   MSc Oceanography   2006-2007   Lacteral carbon export from the Southern Benguela upwelling system
Ms S Pillay   MSc Molecular & Cell Biology   2006-2007   Optimization of Chimaeric HIV-1 Virus-Like Particle (VLP) production and immunogenicity of VLPs in mice
Ms Sian Butcher   MSocSc Development Studies   2007-2008   Lived experiences of privatisation in Cape Town and Lusaka - women and state rental housing
Ms Kerry Mauchline   MA Politics, Philosophy & Economics   2007-2008   Generating stigma through behaviour change campaigns: potential problems for ABC HIV prevention messages?
Ms Naadiya Moosajee   MSc (Eng) Transportation & Planning   2007-2008   An investigation into the pedestrianisation of city streets: a move towards pedestrian friendly spaces and their economic effects in the City of Cape Town
Ms Joy Olivier   Med Education   2007-2008   The use of ICT for peer-to-peer learning and support by students at Fort Hare University
Mr Steven Keggie   PhD Political Studies   2007-2008   An analysis of the narratives of a group of survivors of the 1993 Highgate Hotel attack: an evaluation of how their social group context has shaped survivors concepts of coping with their loss
Mr Darren Araujo   MA Theatre & Performance - Theatre Voice   2008   Finding the natural voice in the South African context
Mr Aphiwe Bewana   MSc Conservation Biology   2008   Provisional title: Evaluating the performance of marine reserves through socio-economic measures
Mr Langelihle Malimela   MA International Relations   2008   Provisional title: South Africa\'s foreign policy in the SADC region
Ms Celeste Coetzee   PhD Economics   2008   The socio-economic impact of HAART in Khayelitsha