Malose Makhubela
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.
Dr Geetha Reddy
Dr Geetha Reddy works within and outwith the psychological sciences to study and address social issues across disciplinary boundaries. They have co-edited three special issues on decolonising psychology together with the Readsura Decolonial Editorial Collective (Review of General Psychology and Journal of Social Issues) and one special issue on precarity with Clare Coultas and Johanna Lukate in the British Journal of Social Psychology. They are working on understanding how people make sense of community resilience, solidarity, precarity and coloniality in Global South countries. They are based at the Open University, UK.
Solomon “Steve” Mashegoane
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.
Richard van Rensburg
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.