Michael Rogan
Senior Researcher
Economics
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
Dr Michael Rogan is a Senior Researcher in the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) within the ISER. He is also an honorary research fellow at the HSRC’s Education and Skills Development Research Programme and a research associate in the global research-policy-action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Research Interest
Dr Rogan’s work over the past five years has focused largely on informal employment, gender, poverty, food security, education and skills development, and survey design.
Publications
-
Michael Rogan, (2016) “Qualitative Perceptions of the Meaning of ‘Headship’ and Female Headship in Post-Apartheid South Africa.†Social Dynamics, 42 (1): 175-195.
-
Michael Rogan and John Reynolds, (2016) “Schooling Inequality, Higher Education and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Graduate Tracer Study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa†Development Southern Africa, 33 (3): 343-360
-
Ana Carolina Ogando, Sally Roever and Michael Rogan, (2017) “Gender and Informal Livelihoods: Coping Strategies and Perceptions of Waste Pickers in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America†International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 37 (7/8): 435-451
