Prof Thuli Mphambukeli is currently a National Research Foundation (NRF) Rated International Scholar, an Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Johannesburg (UJ). She obtained the degree of Bachelor of Community and Development Studies, the degree Master of Town and Regional Planning at The University of KwaZulu-Natal, a degree of bachelor's in theology at Faith Bible College, and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UFS. She was a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences Italy (hosted at the University of Konstanz, Germany); an Alumni of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, USA; an Alumni of the Public Affairs Research Institute, The University of Witwatersrand as well as the University of the Free State Rector’s Prestige Scholar. She is a recipient of many research grants and awards such as the BRICS Think Tank Academic Forum Grant, NRF Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration (KIC) Individual Travel Grant, South Africa, the Herrenhausen Conference Travel Grant, Hanover, Germany, BRICS Think Tank Academic Forum Seed Funding, South Africa and African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Grantee, 2018. The African Pathways Programme (APP)/BRICS Teaching and Research Mobility Grantee. She has published extensively in local and international journals. In May 2019, she was invited by the Perry World House and the Center for the Studies of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania to participate in the Precarious Statuses of Migrants workshop. She also presented her recent paper at the Urban Inequalities: Ethnographic Insights, in Corinth, Greece in June 2019. In August 2019, she co-edited a Special Issue in the African Renaissance Journal. She serves on various editorial boards both in South Africa and Internationally.
Prof Thuli Mphambukeli is currently a National Research Foundation (NRF) Rated International Scholar, an Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Johannesburg (UJ). She obtained the degree of Bachelor of Community and Development Studies, the degree Master of Town and Regional Planning at The University of KwaZulu-Natal, a degree of bachelor's in theology at Faith Bible College, and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UFS. She was a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences Italy (hosted at the University of Konstanz, Germany); an Alumni of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, USA; an Alumni of the Public Affairs Research Institute, The University of Witwatersrand as well as the University of the Free State Rector’s Prestige Scholar. She is a recipient of many research grants and awards such as the BRICS Think Tank Academic Forum Grant, NRF Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration (KIC) Individual Travel Grant, South Africa, the Herrenhausen Conference Travel Grant, Hanover, Germany, BRICS Think Tank Academic Forum Seed Funding, South Africa and African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Individual Research Grantee, 2018. The African Pathways Programme (APP)/BRICS Teaching and Research Mobility Grantee. She has published extensively in local and international journals. In May 2019, she was invited by the Perry World House and the Center for the Studies of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania to participate in the Precarious Statuses of Migrants workshop. She also presented her recent paper at the Urban Inequalities: Ethnographic Insights, in Corinth, Greece in June 2019. In August 2019, she co-edited a Special Issue in the African Renaissance Journal. She serves on various editorial boards both in South Africa and Internationally.
