Marion Ouma

Marion Ouma is a research associate with the South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARChl) on Social Policy at the University of South Africa where she also received her PhD in Sociology. She is a two-time SSRC Next Gen Doctoral Award recipient in 2016 and 2017. Marion is also a recipient of the 2025 SSRC APDD IRF fellowship award. Her research interests include social policy, social protection, policymaking, and the political economy of Africa’s development. She has published in Critical Social Policy, Africa Development, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy and Journal of Development Studies with book chapters in The Handbook of African Political Economy, Social Policy in an African Context, Can African do Economics. She has written several op-eds including in Africa is a Country and The Tricontinental.