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Ashley Gunter (academic)

Prof Ashley Gunter is an Associate Professor at the University of South Africa.

Early Life
Ashley Gunter was born in Benoni South Africa. His father, William Gunter was a church pastor from Cape Town and his Mother, Susan Kriel a nurse from Zimbabwe (Decended from Abraham Kriel ). He attended Tom Newby Primary School and Benoni High School.

University Study
Prof Gunter did his undergraduate at the University of the Witwatersrand, he also completed a honours and Masters degree at WITS. He completed his PhD at the University of Johannesburg

Professional Life
He started a lectureship at Monash South Africa in 2006 and then moved to the University of South Africa in 2013 as Senior lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017.

Academic Associations
In 2012 he was a visiting research fellow at the Center for the Environment at Oxford University

In 2014 he was hosted at the African Research Center, University of Edinburgh as a visiting fellow

In 2016 he was a visiting fellow at the Open University UK in the Department of Geography

Awards
In 2016 he was awarded a Newton Fund grant in collaboration with Prof Parvati Raghuram at The OU.

In 2018 he was awarded a NRF Y rating

In 2019 he was part of the team awarded a Arts and Humanities Research grant

Publications
He has published extensively on development issues in Africa.