Research Director: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council
Benjamin Roberts is Research Director and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) in the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). He has been coordinating the annually conducted, nationally representative SASAS series since its inception in 2003. He has a BSc Town and Regional Planning (Wits), an MSc Urban and Regional Planning (Development)(Natal) and a PhD Social Policy and Labour Studies (Rhodes University).
Experience
2021–present
Acting Strategic Lead and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, Human Sciences Research Council
2020–present
Research Director and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, Human Sciences Research Council
2018–2020
Chief Research Specialist, Democracy, Governance & Service Delivery (DGSD), Human Sciences Research Council
2014–2018
Senior Research Manager, Democracy, Governance & Service Delivery (DGSD), Human Sciences Research Council
2010–2014
Research Specialist, Democracy, Governance & Service Delivery (DGSD), Human Sciences Research Council
2008–2010
Research Specialist, Child, Youth, Family and Social Development (CYFSD), Human Sciences Research Council
2005–2008
Research Specialist, Urban, Rural and Economic Development (URED), Human Sciences Research Council
2003–2005
Chief Researcher, Integrated Regional and Rural Development (IRRD) and Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), Human Sciences Research Council
2002–2003
Chief Researcher, Surveys, Analysis, Modelling and Mapping (SAMM), Human Sciences Research Council
1998–2002
Research fellow, School of Development Studies, University of Natal
Education
2019
Rhodes University, PhD Humanities (Social Policy)
2000
University of Natal, MSc Urban and Regional Planning (Development)
1996
University of the Witwatersrand, BSc Town & Regional Planning
Grants and Contracts
2018
Role:
Senior Research Manager and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS)