What do we really know about the lived experiences of people who are unemployed? In this episode, Dr Melinda Du Toit passionately describes her journey and doctoral research which focused on the qualitative inquiry into the experience of unemployment of individuals living in South African townships.

Melinda is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) at the University of Johannesburg

Recent article in the Conversaiton.com:
https://theconversation.com/south-africans-describe-the-pain-of-unemployment-130250?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton&fbclid=IwAR3hxKnycXDTB19wSs0Oz9jyZsTQ2BImNfSafN8bYBXPRhWmP3SOM0hhFDE

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14330237.2018.1454575

Contextual factors and the experience of unemployment: A review of qualitative studies:
http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2222-34362018000100055

Exploring experiences of unemployment in South African townships [PhD (Industrial Psychology):
http://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/31643