Ulandi du Plessis (PhD, Rhodes) is Senior Researcher and Programme Manager at the CSSR. Her PhD thesis, Governing Pregnancy in South Africa: Political and health debate, policy and procedures, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies and Andrew P Mellon Foundations, entails a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of South African health policy with a specific focus on maternal health policy 1994-present. Using the governmentality framework, it investigates the knowledge/power relationships that belie the current rationality of governing pregnancy, shaping maternal health policy and practices in a Global South context such as South Africa. She received the British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women and Equalities Section (POWES) and Feminism and Psychology Postgraduate Award for a paper submitted based on her doctoral thesis. She has worked on projects on pregnancy supportability, sexuality education, and abortion experiences. Her interests include sexual and reproductive health and justice, abortion, pregnancy, respectful maternity care, stigma, critical feminist methodologies and Foucault. Ulandi supervises students at the CSSR and has been a researcher, lead, and/or project coordinator on various local and international quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods projects in social policy, education, and health.

Peer-reviewed publications:

Du Plessis, U & Macleod, CI (2024). Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa. Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press.

Macleod, CI & Du Plessis, U (2024). Teaching comprehensive sexuality education in a traumatized society: recognizing teachers as sexual, reproductive, and mental health frontline workers. Front. Educ. 9:1276299. DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1276299

Ndabula, Yanela, Catriona Ida Macleod, Ulandi Du Plessis, and Sarah Moore, (2024) ‘South African Government Responses to Trump’s Global Gag Rule: Silence, Ignorance, and Avoidance’, Critical Social Policy, 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241229046.

Du Plessis, U, & Macleod, CI (2023). Governing pregnancy in the Global South: the case of post-apartheid South Africa, Health, Risk & Society, DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2249943

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