Indian-origin South African academic leila Patel has been named the African country’s one of the top women researcher in the annual Women in Science Awards hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology here.
Patel, who got her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, is currently a professor of Social Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa, which she founded in 2002 at the same institution. These annual awards recognise the work of those women who are involved in full-time research leading to a master’s or doctoral degree in areas in which the participation of women in traditionally low.