• Higher Education Degree  (University of Natal),  Bachelor of Education Honours  (University of Natal), Master of Education (UKZN), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)(UKZN)

Profile

Experience:

• Teaching at both basic education and higher education.
• Undergraduate and post graduate course design.
• Doctoral support lectures
• Presentations at Doctoral seminars
• Proposal development in Doctoral Cohort
• Lecturing Gender Education modules (Honours and Masters)
• Lecturing Professional Studies, Education Studies and Micro Teaching
• Lecturing in Social Justice Education and Diversity and Learning
• Lecturing National Professional Diploma in Education (NPDE)

Accomplishments:

Peer Reviewer for the following journals (2012- 2016)

• Gender and Education
• Agenda
• Sexualities
• International Journal of Educational Development
• African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR)

Awards:

• NRF Research Grant
• Ernest and Ethel Eriksen Trust Grant
• Mellon Foundation Research grant
• Post-doctoral scholarship: Women in Research Academy
• Golden Key Membership

Research Interests:

• Masculinities and Schooling
• Young People Gender and Sexual Identities
• Violence, Gender and Schooling
• Coloured identity[ies]

Teaching Interests:

• Teaching in Education Studies Professional Studies and Gender Education

Supervision:

• Bachelor of Education (Honours) Supervision
• Independent Research Module (IRP) in Gender and Education
• Master of Education Supervision
• Doctoral Supervision

Community Involvement/Outreach:

• Guest Speaker at School Awards Ceremonies
• Guest Speaker at Women`s Day Celebrations
• Presenter at Adult Formation at Christ the King Parish – Men and Women Conferences in Wentworth
• Guest Speaker at youth conferences
• Board chairperson at Holy Family College in Glenwood, Durban
• Treasurer for Young Cavaliers Football Club in Wentworth, Durban
• Treasurer: Keith `Skido` Joseph Foundation (NGO)

Publications/Selected Publications (2014 – 2016):

Journal Articles:

• Bhana, D and Anderson, B (2013): Desire and constraint in the construction of South African teenage women`s sexualities. Sexualities 16 (5/6): 548-564.
• Anderson, B (2013):  “If you love me you`ll wait”: Sex, love and agency in coloured teenage girls` accounts of sexuality. Agenda.
• Bhana, D and Anderson, B (2013): Gender, relationship dynamics and South African girls’ vulnerability to sexual risk. AJAR 12 (1): 25 – 31
• Anderson, B. (2010). `Coloured` boys talk: Constructing heterosexual masculinities in a working class high school context. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 20(4): 635-646.
• Anderson, B. (2010). “You`re not a man if you hit a girl”: `Coloured` high-school boys doing heterosexual masculinity differently. Agenda 83: 74-87.
• Anderson, B. (2009).  `Coloured` boys resisting gangster masculinity: “I’m not so into gangs anymore. I’ve started going to church now”. Agenda, Special Issue 80: 55-67.

Chapters in Books:

• Anderson, B. (2016). Education: With Emphasis on South African Education, In M. Seedat-Khan, Z. L. Jansen and R. Smith (Eds) Sociology: A South African Perspective pp. 156-170.