by PsySSA-Web Support | Jul 8, 2024
Clare Harvey is a clinical psychologist, senior lecturer, and researcher in the Psychology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has worked in various government and private clinical and educational settings both in the United Kingdom and in South Africa. Clare primarily researches and publishes within the areas of Disability and Gender Studies. Her PhD focused on the subjectivity of mothers when they have a child with a physical disability. She is on the editorial board for the African Journal of Disability and Disability & Society and is Associate Editor for South African Journal of Psychology.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Jan 10, 2024
Solomon “Steve” Mashegoane (Ph. D) is a professor of psychology and the head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Limpopo. He is also registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa in the clinical psychology, independent practice category. Prof. Mashegoane is the founder and owner of KM’T Institute for Development and Evaluation, a research and development company with considerable experience in the evaluation of customer/community satisfaction in the public sector. Aside from the involvement in the editorial term of the SAJP, Prof Mashegoane has served a stint as a language editor of Theologia Viatorum: Journal of Theology & Religion in Africa and is one of the executive editors of the African Journal of Psychological Assessment. Prof Mashegoane conducts research, teaches, and writes mainly on health psychology, psychometrics, and psychological assessment. He also presents research methods modules.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Dec 12, 2023
Ashley van Niekerk is a professor at the University of South Africa’s (Unisa) Institute for Social and Health Sciences and the Interim Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)-Unisa Masculinity and Health Research Unit. Ashley was previously the Deputy Director of the SAMRC-Unisa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit (2016-2020), a Professor Extraordinarius with the Institute for Social and Health Sciences (2010-2020) and an Adjunct Professor (Research) with Monash University’s Monash Injury Research Institute (2012-2016). He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in South Africa. Ashley has a PhD (Social Medicine, 2007) from the Karolinska Institutet and a M. Psych (Clinical Psychology, 1996) from the University of the Western Cape. His research portfolio is embedded in critical socio-psychological, public health and social justice understandings of the multi-layered nature of injury, its causation, and prevention, with a longstanding focus on burns and child safety. He has been involved in the development of national evidence-based injury and violence prevention policy initiatives, co-leading an Integrated Strategic Framework for the Prevention of Injury and Violence in South Africa (2012-2016), and leading provincial strategies for the prevention of fires (in 2014-2015) and the promotion of water safety (in 2017-2018). Ashley was appointed by the Ministry of Health to its National Health Research Committee (2013-2017), by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as a technical advisor (2023-current) and was previously on the Burns and Scalds WHO Expert Group for the World Report on Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention for 2007-2009. He is an associate editor of the South African Journal of Psychology (2023-current), an associate editor of Injury Prevention (2018-current), and a former editor-in-chief of African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention (until 2022, recently renamed Social and Health Sciences).
by PsySSA-Web Support | Dec 12, 2023
Prof. Jacqueline Moodley is a registered research psychologist and an associate professor of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg. With a Y rating with the National Research Foundation, Jacqueline’s research focusses on disability and development. More specifically, her work seeks to explore the ways in which disability intersects with various social and individual aspects that propound inequality in South Africa to result in poorer multidimensional outcomes for persons with disabilities. She is part of the Global Research on Inclusion and Disability hosted at Washington University in St Louis.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Dec 12, 2023
Jacobus Gideon Maree is an educational psychologist and a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He holds three doctoral degrees and has received multiple awards and has a B1 rating from the National Research Foundation. A fellow of PsySSA and the IAAP and a member of the Board of Directors of the IAAP (Division 16), Prof. Maree is the sole African representative attached to the UNESCO Chair on Lifelong Guidance and Counseling and the UNESCO University Network and Twinning Chair. He read keynote papers at multiple international conferences and accepted honorary scholarly appointments as a research fellow, professor extraordinaire, adjunct professor, and visiting professor at several universities worldwide.
