Thanks to all the contributors to our site so far! Our previous bloggers for SAYAS were:

Dorothy Ngila

Dorothy is a senior liaison officer at the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) where she is primarily responsible for directing and implementing the Academy’s African collaborations, and its gender and STI portfolios. Dorothy serves on the Women for Science Working Group of the Network of African science Academies (NASAC). She was one of the compilers of ‘Inquiry-Based Science Education: Increasing Participation of Girls in Science in sub-Saharan Africa’ Policymakers’ Booklet published by ASSAf in 2011. Dorothy has a Masters degree in Geography and Environmental Management from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa and is currently studying towards a PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Stellenbosch University.

Karen Cloete

Dr Karen Cloete has a PhD in Microbiology and is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (LABS), National Research Foundation, where her research is focused on the biological applications of ion beam techniques. She has co-authored a number of international journal publications in multidisciplinary fields, has convened and lectured a module on writing scientific papers for MSc (MedSci) in Clinical Epidemiology students, and has also mentored and organized workshops for postgraduate students from various disciplines on academic writing. She believes in the power of science to affect positive change.

Srila Roy

Srila Roy is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She uses a postcolonial and transnational feminist lens to research a number of themes including gender and sexuality; cultural memory, violence and trauma; social movements; and the politics of development and neoliberalism, much of which takes as its starting point the contemporary history of India/South Asia. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012) and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualising Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford, 2015). She has contributed to various blogs and news media outlets such as Al Jazeera, OpenDemocracy and Dissent. She tweets at @srilaroy.