Yul Derek Davids is a Research Manager in the Population Hleath, Health Systems and Innovation and has a keen interest in the socio-economic conditions of people and how it impacts on their ability to live a good quality life with less risk of falling into poverty and or ill-health. In addition, he has key expertise in project conceptualisation, proposal writing, fundraising, questionnaire design, sample drawing, fieldwork logistics, data management, data analyses, report writing, presentations of results, and project reporting.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stellenbosch University. His dissertation focused on comparing perceptions of poverty with living conditions of poverty. He received a scholarship from Stellenbosch University for his PhD studies. In June 2002 he was awarded the Afrobarometer Fellowship to attend advanced courses on Survey Research and Statistical Analysis at the University of Michigan.
Before joining the HSRC, he was the manager of the Public Opinion Service at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) where he managed more than thirty national representative surveys which included the Afrobarometer surveys in Southern Africa. He
also did consultancy work for the International Foundation for Elections Systems (IFES) in Uganda and Management Systems International (MSI) in Nigeria as well as for USAID in Tanzania. He also published extensively and has represented the HSRC both at national and international conferences. |
