Lydia Moyo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), Wits University where she works in the Global Health Research Group on Disrupting the cycle of gendered violence & poor mental health among migrants in precarious situations (GEMMS) project.
She holds a PhD from the University of Johannesburg (UJ); her thesis was titled “Geopolitics of Relocating: The Integration Experiences of Zimbabwean Venda-Speaking Migrants Residing in Pretoria, South Africa.”
Lydia completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Zimbabwe and obtained her Honours and MA degrees from UJ. Lydia has previously worked as a survey enumerator and was the research coordinator for a project looking at the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (2022-2023); she is multilingual, speaking six South African and Zimbabwean languages (Tshivenda, English, Pedi, Isizulu, Ndebele, Shona).
Currently, Lydia is the qualitative data lead for the South African arm of the GEMMS project and took on the role of a survey supervisor and enumerator for a recently completed 600-person survey in Musina (June 2025). Her research interests include the intersections of migration, xenophobia, language, and integration.
Read Lydia’s MA dissertation: The experiences of students with disabilities at the University of Johannesburg