Avivit Cherrington is an educational psychologist with expertise in community development and system-level programmes for mental health and well-being. She is currently senior lecturer and BEdHonours Programme Co-ordinator at School of Education, STADIO Institute of Higher Education. She is also a Research Associate with Nelson Mandela University, supervising postgraduate students aligned to the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET). Her research has focused on understanding and fostering well-being and hope from an Afrocentric lens, as well as promoting critical thinking and engaged humanising pedagogy in teacher education programmes to foster future teachers who are agents of transformative social change. She currently chairs PsySSA’s Community and Social Psychology (CaSP) Division for a second term.
Dr. Avivit Cherrington
