Akhona is an HPCSA registered Research Psychologist currently registered as a PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape, with a Masters degree in Research Psychology. She supervises honours psychology students.
She’s skilled in various research methodologies. Her research interests are adolescent focused issues, race relations, ethnic-socialisation, social cohesion, instrument validation and development, mental health and mental health services, food (in)security and diet intake/quality, and other topics and issues particularly affecting the South African context, its people, and the world at large. She is also an avid volunteer in her church and church community.