by Web Admin | Feb 7, 2024
Professor Malose Makhubela is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a full professor at the University of Limpopo. He was previously attached to the University of Pretoria and University of Johannesburg. Professor Makhubela’s research is largely focussed on developing better ways to understand psychological attributes, either as latent attributes using novel methodological offshoots of the traditional latent variable framework or through studying individual symptoms of mental disorders and their causal relations. Professor Makhubela’s research endeavours to go beyond traditional linear thinking about psychopathology and its assessment and is geared towards a more complex understanding of mental illness, as best illustrated by the field of complexity science.
by Web Admin | Feb 7, 2024
Dr Geetha Reddy works within and outwith the psychological sciences to study and address social issues across disciplinary boundaries. They have co-edited three special issues on decolonising psychology together with the Readsura Decolonial Editorial Collective (Review of General Psychology and Journal of Social Issues) and one special issue on precarity with Clare Coultas and Johanna Lukate in the British Journal of Social Psychology. They are working on understanding how people make sense of community resilience, solidarity, precarity and coloniality in Global South countries. They are based at the Open University, UK.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Dec 12, 2023
Suntosh is the chief clinical psychologist for eThekwini (Durban) in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health. He has spent 15 years working in public mental health, mostly based at King Dinuzulu Hospital. He is affiliated to the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is also an alumnus of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) at Florida International University, Miami, and the Leading in Public Life programme at the University of Cape Town. Suntosh writes with a critical, decolonial, and psychopolitical lens, focusing on the intersectionality of race, sexualities, health, and identities in the post-apartheid era. He is co-author of (South) Africa’s first and only set of Practice Guidelines for Psychology Professionals Working with Sexually and Gender Diverse People and his work on LGBTQ+ affirmative psychology has been published widely, including in the Lancet Global Health. He is part of a research and training team called the African LGBTI+ Human Rights Project, arising from the Sexuality and Gender Division of PsySSA. Suntosh locates his scholar-activism firmly within the practical and material problems he writes about. He is the co-founder of diverse grassroots initiatives, including the KwaZulu-Natal Mental Health Advocacy Group, the Mental Health and Gender Initiative, and Conversations for Change. In 2015, he was named by the Mail and Guardian newspaper as one of the top 200 Young South Africans in Healthcare. In 2022, he was featured in a documentary, When the rainbow is bittersweet. Suntosh is co-editor of the book, Chasing Freedom: Histories, analyses, and voices of student activism in South Africa (CODESRIA Press).
