She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2001 where she was a Commonwealth Scholar between 1998 and 2000. Her work on poverty, family and women's lives has been published in several journals including the Journal of Asian and African Studies, African Sociological Review, South African Review of Sociology and Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Contact: kammila.naidoo@up.ac.za. Publication date: August 2009.