Ruth Hall holds a Masters degree in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and an Honours degree in Political Studies from UCT. She is currently registered for a doctoral degree in Politics at Oxford. She joined the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in 2002 to work on an evaluation of land and agrarian reform in South Africa.

Before joining PLAAS, she was Senior Researcher at the Centre for Rural Legal Studies (CRLS), Stellenbosch, where she led research on farm workers’ wages and conditions of employment in South Africa as part of an investigation by the Department of Labour into minimum wages for farm workers. She has also done research on land reform policies and practices in South Africa and in India, focusing on gender equity.

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