Degrees Held
- BSS (UKZN)
- M.Dev (UKZN)
- Cert (Leadership in HIV Prevention)
- PhD (UKZN)
Profile
Highlights
Experience
Accomplishments
Awards
Highlights
Aside from my work experience, I have participated in a wide range of social and academic activities:
- In 2014 I became a Fellow under the highly competitive HSRC/ UCLA Leadership in HIV and Gender-Based Violence prevention programme, during which I designed and led a programme on HIV and GBV prevention among youth in a township school.
- In 2015 I was selected by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation as one of ten Young African Scholars and from this work I conducted research among young men in Ntuzuma Township, focusing largely on how they experience growing class inequality within their township. I have also presented my work at a number of national and international conferences.
- I am the former Chairperson of the Global Shapers Community- Durban Hub. The Global Shapers Community enables youth to be a voice for the future in local, regional and global thought processes and a catalyst of entrepreneurship in the global public interest. I have participated in a number of World Economic Forum events as a member of the Global Shapers Community.
- In 2018, I selected as one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Most Influential Young South Africans in the field of Education. During the same year, I was awarded the World Bank/Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s Development Marketplace for Innovation on gender-based violence prevention and response. The award for a project titled: Evaluating a walking school bus as a school-related gender-based violence intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This study aims to understand community perceptions of learner safety, experiences of School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV), and risks associated with walking particular routes to and from school; and, to implement and evaluate a walking school bus intervention by comparing learners on key outcomes including experiences of SRGBV, academic achievement, absenteeism, and attrition across three study groups (walking bus intervention, departmental learner transport intervention and no intervention).
Experience
- Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Human Geography) – UKZN
- Research and Projects Manager – Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
- Student Development Officer – Durban University of Technology (DUT)
- Projects Officer, HIV & AIDS Centre – Durban University of Technology (DUT)
- Junior Industrial Development Facilitator- B & M Analysts
Accomplishments
- Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community
- Member, UNESCO, School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV) Working Group· Board member and Senior Advisor, Advise Desk for the Abused
- Board Member, Durban Lesbian and Gay Centre
- Board Member, Pietermaritzburg Children Home
- Consultant (Gender and Sexual Diversity), HEAIDS and the Department of Higher Education & Training, South Africa
Awards
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Top 10 Young African Scholars
- National Institute for the Humanities and Social Science (NIHSS) Doctoral Scholarship
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Doctoral Scholarship
- Mail & Guardian 200 Most Influential Young South Africans (Education)
- Laura Bassi Scholarship Recipient for Junior Academics (https://editing.press/bassi.php#)
Research Interests
- Gender and Childhood Geographies
- Geographies of Violence
- Gender and Childhood Sexualities
- The Sociology of Urban and Rural Education
- Participatory Visual Methodologies
- Child and Adolescent Education and Wellbeing
Teaching Interests
- Gender Transformative Pedagogies
- Urban and Rural Education
- The Psychology of Education
- Gender, Difference and the Curriculum
Community Involvement
- 2013-2015: Exploring University Students Sexual Behavior, Knowledge and Attitudes at the Durban University of Technology
- 2014-2015: Investigating Students Attitudes towards Marriage and Childbearing in the Context of HIV & AIDS
- 2016-2020: Inquiry into Adolescents’ Health Behaviour and Risk Assessments
- 2015-2020: Understanding the HIV prevention needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) and their partners in Southern Africa: South Africa and Namibia (Together Tomorrow)
- 2018-2022: Evaluating a walking school bus as a school-related gender-based violence intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Online Articles
Exhibitions
Peer Reviewer
Organisational Peer Review
Online Articles
- The Battel for Free Education in South Africa: https://worldpolicy.org/2015/10/27/the-battle-for-free-education-in-south-africa/, in World Policy (27 October 2015)
- Toward a Pan-Africanist Perspective on Science: https://worldpolicy.org/2016/12/21/toward-a-pan-africanist-perspective-on-science/, in World Policy (21 December 2016)
- Reflecting on Pride Month: Queer South Africans still Experience Abuse and Violence. Discussion on Power FM with Aldrin Sampear: https://www.power987.co.za/news/queer-south-africans-still-experience-abuse-and-violence/?fbclid=IwAR0tar7jgFpeye1NOviHA2A4Is407AQDpLnnBG5kHi5_JHufyVmMnPHlwpM, Power FM (01 July 2020).
Exhibitions
- Photo-voice: Amazwi Ethu: Speaking Back Exhibition:
- Jack Heath Gallery (UKZN)
- Local community hall (Sweetwaters)
Peer Reviewer
- Visual Studies
- Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities;
- Agenda Feminist Journal
- Sex Education
Organisational Peer Review
- South African Medical Research Council
- Human Sciences Research Council
Publications
Journal Articles
Chapters in Books
Conference Proceedings
Journal Articles
- Ngidi, N.D., Ramphalile, M., Essack, Z. & van Rooyen, H. (2020). Exploring queerphobic geographies in Southern Africa. Agenda Feminist Journal, 12 (special issue).
- Ngidi, N.D. & Moletsane, R. (2019). Using photovoice to engage orphans to explore sexual violence in and around a township secondary school in South Africa. Sex Education, 18 (6), 1-17.
- Ngidi, N.D. & Moletsane, R. (2018). Bullying in school toilets: Experiences of secondary school learners in a South African township. South African Journal of Education, 38 (Supplement 1), October 2018.
- Haffejee, F., Ngidi, N. D., & Singh, D. (2018). Is the HIV epidemic changing views on marriage aspirations? Perspectives of university students in Durban, South Africa. AIDS care, 30(7), 853-856.
- Ngidi, N. D., & Dlamini, M. A. C. (2017). Challenging heteronormative scripts through film and transformative pedagogy among TVET college students. South African Journal of Higher Education, 31(4), 267-285.
- Ngidi, N. D., Moyo, S., Zulu, T., Adam, J. K., & Krishna, S. B. N. (2016). Qualitative evaluation of selected social factors that impact sexual risk-taking behaviour among African students in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 13(1), 96-105.
- Ngidi, N. D., & Moletsane, R. (2015). Using transformative pedagogies for the prevention of gender-based violence: Reflections from a secondary school-based intervention. Agenda, 29(3), 66-78.
Chapters in Books
- Hemson, C., Ngidi, N.D., Xulu-Gama, M & Magudulela, N. (2019). Gender, violence and the first-year curriculum. In R. Pattman and R. Carolissen (Eds), Transforming transformation in research and teaching at South African universities. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media
- Ngidi, N.D, Khumalo, S., Essack, Z., & Groenewald, C. (2018). Pictures speak for themselves: Youth engaging through photovoice to describe sexual violence in their community, in Claudia Mitchell Relebohile Moletsane (eds.), Youth Engagement through the Arts and Visual Practices to Address Sexual Violence. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
- Ngidi, N.D. & Moletsane, R. (2018). Using Drawings to Explore Sexual Violence with Orphaned Youth in and around a Township Secondary School in South Africa. In C. Mitchell and R. Moletsane (Eds), Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence. Leiden: Brill Publishers
Conference Proceedings
- Ngidi, N. D., Mtshixa, C., Diga, K., Mbarathi, N., & May, J. (2016, June). ‘Asijiki’and the capacity to aspire through social media: the# feesmustfall movement as an anti-poverty activism in South Africa. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (p. 15). ACM.