Brendon Barnes is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg. He writes in psychology and environmental health is known to champion the integration of justice into environmental and climate psychology. He has won research, service and teaching awards.
Dr. Lynn Hendricks is a lecturer in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She is a transdisciplinary researcher with a PhD in Social Science and Public Health. She has a keen interest in co-creative and co-productive research within communities and works with digital mediums as well primary arts-based methods.
Dr. Stephanie Klarmann is a Conservation Psychology researcher based in South Africa. Her work has focused primarily on envisioning a conservation psychology that is relevant in the South African context with a stronger focus on environmental justice issues. Other areas of interest include capacity building, conservation/wildlife photography for storytelling, and environmental education for youth.
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.
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.