Claire McCann
Biography
Claire McCann holds a BA Honours degree in Economics and Political Studies from Rhodes University. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Economics focusing on the perils and possibility in South Africa's early childhood development sector. Claire is interested in feminist economics and community-based participatory research, and hopes to orientate her research towards the construction of a more just education system and economy. Claire aims to combine her theory with practice and is a leader in the Nine Tenths matric mentoring programme. She also works part-time at the Rhodes University’s Community Engagement Division, where she facilitates a research group exploring the impact of Nine Tenths and designs a Community Engagement short course for private schools. In 2022, Claire hopes to pursue an MSc in Economics for Development at Oxford, with the intention to progress to the DPhil in International Development.