Raemaekers, Serge

Serge Raemaekers joined the EEU as a post-doctoral research fellow in April 2009, after having completed his PhD at Rhodes University where he analysed the governance approaches to the abalone and lobster fisheries in the Eastern Cape Province. Serge is a natural scientist with an MSc degree in bioscience engineering from the University of Ghent (Belgium, 2003), but has gained expertise in inter-disciplinary research on understanding and assessing livelihoods and fishing practices, and while undertaking participatory ecological and socio-economic research with local rural communities. Since 2007, he has been contributing his research findings and ideas to the South African small-scale fisheries policy development process. His post-doctoral research engages with systems thinking and fisheries governance theory with the aim to recommend governance models and management approaches that are more applicable to small-scale fishers ‘realities.

Email: serge.raemaekers@gmail.com

Phone: 021-6502879