Milton Semenekane

Human Sciences Research Council 03/2023 – 07/2023 Fieldworker 
• Investigated the Role of traditional food system in the Johannesburg with special focus on migrants and immigrants. We were able to penetrate the busiest and more dangerous sites on the city to gather information for policy brief.
• Explored the knowledge and practices of participants on traditional foods and well-being
• Responsibilities: Collecting qualitative data and analysis it, transcribing, ethnographic method experience as we spent time with participants, data quality check, context reporting and designated driver.

National Dietary Intake Survey 01/2022 – 08/2022 Researcher
• I collected dietary data and anthropometric measurements around the North West province with more than 40 enumeration areas. This included infants and young children at household level and early childhood development centres, teenagers, adults and the elderly. 
• Responsibilities: Liaise with the stakeholders and gatekeepers of rural and peri-urban areas; providing feedback on daily events and observations to the project coordinator, data collection and cleaning, quality check and translation of SeTswana language and designated driver.

University of the Western Cape – School of Public Health 08/2023 – 07/2023
Research assistant
• I collected online and social media data to explore the celebrity’s food marketing and how do they influence the childhood food choices.  
• My focus was to capture nutrient content and on-package marketing, alignment of sodium in food products and R991 marketing compliance.
• Responsibilities: Data coding and capturing and report writing.

University of Limpopo – Department of Examinations         01/2023 – current
Nutrition Research Module – External Examiner (part-time)
• I assess the exam papers to ensure marking is fair, consistent, and aligns with the stated learning outcomes for the research module. I review overall student performance and identify any patterns or issues that may need addressing.
• Provide insights on how well students are grasping key research concepts and methodologies in nutrition.

North West University - Centre of Excellence for Nutrition 06/2020 – 12/2020
Research assistant
• I coded and captured dietary assessment data for the study entitled Nutrition during pregnancy and early development’ (NuPED study) that was conducted in Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Johannesburg. 

North-West University: Library and information services 04/2019 – 03/2020
Student assistant librarian
• I assisted students with identifying and retrieving relevant information sources.
• I had to assist students with any queries relating to successful completion of academic assignments.
• Responsibilities: monitoring student needs and activities. 

National Research Foundation (NRF) – Centre of Excellence for Nutrition 04/2017 – 03/2019
Research assistant/Intern
• I worked as an assistant for research projects that were actively running at the centre.
• I recruited participants from Potchefstroom hospital and clinics (HIV Bone Study); Administering interviews for dietary questionnaires (Early Childhood Development study); Dietary assessment coding and capturing (Nutrition during pregnancy and early development study (NuPED); Urine sampling and laboratory inventory (African- PREDICT study); Bio-electrical impedance and anthropometric measurements (African-PREDICT study) and Administering of questionnaires and conducting interviews & community liaison officer and administrator (Breastfeeding study).
• Responsibilities: recruitment of participants, administration of interviews, stakeholder engagement and report writing.
 

PhD Nutrition Candidate (current) - University of Pretoria

MSc Nutrition (2020) - North-West University

BSc Nutrition (2016) - North-West University