Precious is an emerging young female researcher with a passion for the analysis of socio-economic issues. She holds a PhD in economics and currently is appointed as a lecturer in the School of Economic Sciences at the North-West University, South Africa. She is involved in the teaching of several macroeconomics-related modules at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including research supervision at the master's and PhD levels. She has had the opportunity to work on several industry research projects, while having published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals, both national and international, and has contributed to a number of conference proceedings. Her expertise is in teaching, research ethics, and quantitative analysis. Her research interests strongly lie in the broad field of economic development, with a particular focus on youth and graduate labour market dynamics, policy formulation, and poverty-related studies.