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 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 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
Richard van Rensburg is a social and psychological researcher who holds an MA from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh (UoE). His research interests include transformation in education, LGBTQIA+ identities, narrative theories of identity, and research methodology with a particular interest in qualitative methods. He is currently studying towards his PhD jointly through Wits and UoE in the field of education. In addition to his research work, he is also a qualified language editor. He has been working as the Managing Editor of the SAJP since January 2023.
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).
