Cecy Edijala Balogun is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg. She holds a permanent position as a Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Nigeria. She holds a PhD in Agriculture (Rural Sociology) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 

Dr Cecy Balogun heads the Social Policy and Mobility unit at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg. As a social researcher, Cecy explores the complexities of rural livelihoods, women, gender, and youth, social and public policies, group dynamics, and community development. 

She has over seven years of experience in researching social issues in Africa. She is a fellow of the CODESRIA College of Mentors and Mentees (2019), CODESRIA Gender and Governance Institutes (2021), Ife Summer Research School (2021), Writing and Researching Inequality in Africa (2021-2024), a British Academy-sponsored fellowship programme, and the University of Bergen Summer Research School, Norway (2024). She is a member of professional bodies including CODESRIA, Rural Sociology Association of Nigeria, Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria, the African Studies Research Forum, and the International Public Policy Association. She has presented academic papers at national and international conferences. She has contributed to several books, book chapters, and some of her research outputs have also been published as monographs. 

She can be reached via email at [email protected] for further inquiries or collaboration opportunities.