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Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council, Human Sciences Research Council

Prof Crain Soudien is the Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council. He holds an M.Ed from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and obtained a PhD in Education from the same university in 1996.

Before joining the HSRC in September 2015, he was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He remains a professor in the School of Education at UCT.

His areas of research interest include: social difference, culture, education policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture.

Prof Soudien's publication record spans the authoring and co-authoring of more than 180 articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters. His most recent work, published in Pedagogy, Culture & Society, draws on intentionality systems theory to begin a discussion about the relationship between the act of violence and thinking.

Experience

  • –present
    Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council, Human Sciences Research Council

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    Role:
    Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council
    Funding Source:
    National Research Foundation