Jacqueline Goldin

I have a strong academic and extensive empirical background. As a ‘numerate’ anthropologist, I have conducted many large scale and smaller household poverty surveys and numerous long term and short term evaluations across government and community projects and programmes covering a wide range of development topics. As such I am fully aware of data concerns around reliability, validity and sharing of data (accessibility). I am dedicated to participatory research with a strong focus on gender and on youth. I work extensively on human development and well-being and the interconnections between humans and their environment. My passion is citizen science where there is a narrowing of the divide between science and society through appropriate and cost effective technology - in our case groundwater monitoring in remote rural wells. The aim of this work is to achieve a more just society through the democratisation of knowledge and improved water literacy. I am Associate Professor Extra-Ordinary in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of the Western Cape a position that is held under the UNESCO Chair for Groundwater and Society