Essay Competition Call OPEN!!

[Dr Anne Wiltshire]

Dear SASA Members,

Now that your abstracts are submitted it's time to get working on your student essays for the 2026 Essay Writing Competition to receive your prizes at the Conference Gala Dinner!!!

Email your entries to compet...@sociology.africa by May 31st. Please feel free to disseminate amongst Post-Graduate Students.

Best Regards,

Dr. Anne Hilda Wiltshire

 Council Member (Ex‑Officio) – South African Sociological Association  www.sociology.africa

Sociologist | Social Research Methodologist | Social Policy Analyst | Academic Publishing | Editorial Leadership  www.drannewiltshire.com 

Sociology Ph.D., Sociology M.A. (cum laude), Sociology B.A. Hons. (cum laude), Humanities B.A. (cum laude) – University of Stellenbosch  www.su.ac.za

'Sociology is the science of making the familiar strange, to better understand and improve the world we live in'.

 Editor – South African Review of Sociology  www.tandfonline.com/journals/rssr20/

 Director & Co‑Founder – Cohere Solutions  www.cohere.solutions

 Independent Sociologist  www.orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-5420

 Subscriber – International Science Council  www.council.science

 Member – International Sociological Association (ISA)  www.isa-sociology.org

 Member – South African Sociological Association  www.sociology.africa

 Member – Logic and Methodology in Sociology ISA Research Committee  RC33

 Member – Conceptual and Terminological Analysis ISA Research Committee  RC35

 Member – Sociological Theory ISA Research Committee  RC16

 Member – Economy and Society ISA Research Committee  RC02

 Member – Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy ISA Research Committee  RC19

 Research Excellence Award – Agricultural Sector Education Training Authority of South Africa 

 Academic Excellence Award – Rector, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

 Recent Publication – Wiltshire, A.H. 2025. Child Work, Care and Neglect in Farmworker Homes: An Empirical Critique of Social Reproduction Theory. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 45 (13-14), 73–91  https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2025-0208