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Deevia Bhana publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Deevia Bhana sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 170 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Deevia Bhana D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Deevia Bhana sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Deevia Bhana is affiliated with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Education, Clinical Psychology, and General Health Professions.

Their scholarly work engages extensively with topics related to Gender Roles and Identity Studies, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Children's Rights and Participation, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Sex Work and Related Issues, and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Deevia Bhana's recent publications include:

  • Normalising violence? Girls and sexuality in a South African high school, 2021, Journal of Gender Studies
  • Digital sexual identities: Between empowerment and disempowerment, 2022, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Boys and bullying in primary school: Young masculinities and the negotiation of power, 2021, South African Journal of Education
  • 'Troubling men who teach young children': masculinity and the paedophilic threat, 2020, Pedagogy Culture and Society
  • Boys negotiate violence and masculinity in the primary school, 2020, British Journal of Sociology of Education

Deevia Bhana frequently publishes in specific venues, including:

  • Children & Society
  • Journal of Gender Studies
  • Sex Education
  • Pedagogy Culture and Society
  • NORMA

Their collaborative work involves regular co-authorship with researchers such as Raksha Janak, Shaaista Moosa, Diloshini Govender, Emmanuel Mayeza, and Vimbai Sharon Matswetu.

Throughout their career, Deevia Bhana's contributions have emphasized complex intersections of gender, sexuality, education, and social dynamics, contributing to broader understandings within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Girls want money, boys want virgins: The materiality of love amongst South African township youth in the context of HIV and AIDS

    Deevia Bhana;Rob Pattman

  • South African teachers' responses to teenage pregnancy and teenage mothers in schools

    Deevia Bhana;Robert Morrell;Tamara Shefer;Sisa Ngabaza

  • “Girls are not free”—In and out of the South African school

    Deevia Bhana

  • Understanding and addressing homophobia in schools: a view from teachers

    Deevia Bhana

  • Violence and the Gendered Negotiation of Masculinity Among Young Black School Boys in South Africa

    Deevia Bhana

  • Researching South African youth, gender and sexuality within the context of HIV/AIDS.

    Deevia Bhana;Rob Pattman

  • Towards Gender Equality: South African Schools during the HIV and AIDS Epidemic

    Robert Morrell;Debbie Epstein;Elaine Unterhalter;Deevia Bhana

  • Power and Identity: An Introduction to Sexualities in Southern Africa:

    Deevia Bhana;Rorbert Morrell;Jeff Hearn;Relebohile Moletsane

  • Male teachers talk about gender violence: “Zulu men demand respect”

    Deevia Bhana;Naydene de Lange;Claudia Mitchell

  • Teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts: deconstructing school narratives and understanding policy implementation

    Tamara Shefer;Deevia Bhana;Robert Morrell

  • Voices of Women Teachers about Gender Inequalities and Gender-Based Violence in Rural South Africa.

    Naydene de Lange;Claudia Mitchell;Deevia Bhana

  • Books and babies: pregnancy and young parents in schools

    R. Morrell;D. Bhana;T. Shefer

  • 'Six packs and big muscles, and stuff like that'. Primary school-aged South African boys, black and white, on sport

    Deevia Bhana

  • The price of innocence: teachers, gender, childhood sexuality, HIV and AIDS in early schooling

    Deevia Bhana

  • Childhood sexuality and rights in the context of HIV/AIDS

    Deevia Bhana

  • Gender, relationship dynamics and South African girls' vulnerability to sexual risk

    Deevia Bhana;Bronwynne Anderson

  • Desire and constraint in the construction of South African teenage women’s sexualities:

    Deevia Bhana;Bronwynne Anderson

  • What matters to girls and boys in a black primary school in South Africa

    Deevia Bhana

  • Pregnant girls and young parents in South African schools

    Deevia Bhana;Lindsay Clowes;Robert Morrell;Tamara Shefer

  • Failing to attract males in foundation phase teaching: an issue of masculinities

    Deevia Bhana;Shaaista Moosa

  • Gender and Childhood Sexuality in Primary School

    Deevia Bhana

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Morrell
Robert Morrell University of Cape Town
Debbie Epstein
Debbie Epstein University of Roehampton
Jeff Hearn
Jeff Hearn Hanken School of Economics
Peter Aggleton
Peter Aggleton University of New South Wales
Claudia Mitchell
Claudia Mitchell McGill University
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand

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