by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Fatima Peters is a lecturer at the University of Venda. She has worked in higher education for over 12 years and is a Registered counsellor belonging to HPCSA. The first scholarship that she was awarded was NSFAS (B Psych), followed by DBBS/VLIR ( MA Psych), SATN/THENSA (PhD candidate at UJ). She teaches Research Methodology, Community Psychology and Ethics. Her research interests are research, human rights, sexuality and gender, higher education, decolonisation and climate and environmental psychology. She has been part of the DRM executive of PsySSA since 2019 and CEPD since 2022.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Thando is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests draw from feminist and critical psychology theories, she is currently writing on the intersectionality of race, gender and class on identities in contemporary South Africa. Thando has an interest in climate justice, specifically in black youth representation in climate justice discourse.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 25, 2025
Barry is a clinical psychologist who has experience in working within both the private and state sectors in primary, secondary and tertiary settings. These have been in correctional and rehabilitative contexts. He has presented at several conference both internationally and locally on a variety of topics. His focus is primarily on working with children and adolescents, however, not exclusively to. His areas of special interest are behavioural problems, trauma, family and parenting challenges, substance use and abuse difficulties, chronic pain management, life stage adjustment difficulties, neuropsychology in rehabilitative and forensic contexts.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 22, 2025
I am a social and psychological researcher, who is interested in social science research, public health, and climate change. My preferred method is qualitative research methodology. For my Honours research at the University of Johannesburg, I used autoethnography to study Child Sexual Abuse. Completed my Masters in Social and Psychological Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, exploring the experiences of black women leaders in corporate South Africa, using Foucauldian discourse analysis. I am a writing consultant by profession, and have a book review publication on Anarchism and Climate Change Activism, published in 2022. Co-authored a journal article on Feasibility Testing of a Health Literacy Intervention With Adolescents and Young Adults in South Africa, published in 2024. This feasibility study introduced me to public health psychology, and made me passionate about finding the links between individuals’ health and how their behaviour impacts their relationship with their direct environment, through a psychological lens. I am specifically interested in how psychological theories such as the socio-ecological system can help social science researchers understand why people care (or not) about their health, environment and thus, the climate. I am excited to serve on the CEPD as a divisional member and join the Psyssa community.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 20, 2025
Brendon Barnes is a Professor at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at Unisa. He is the chairperson of the Steering Committee of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Viessmann Centre for Engagement and Research in Sustainability at Wilfred Laurier University, Canada and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is previous chairperson and co-founder of the Climate, Environment and Psychology Division of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He has won teaching, academic citizenship, mentoring, and research awards.
