Pakeezah Rajab is a HPCSA-registered Research Psychologist and Psychometrist, employed as a Product Specialist at JVR Psychometrics and a PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria. She has worked on numerous projects that has applied, developed, validated and/or standardised psychometric assessments for use by the South African population – including aptitude, personality, values, career guidance and emotional intelligence, in both educational and corporate environments. Her research interests include cognitive functioning, student performance and assessment development.

Dr Angelina Maphula is a Senior Lecturer and qualified Clinical Psychologist employed at the University of Venda. She is currently busy with her postdoctoral fellowship in the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)/South African Trauma Research Training (Phodiso) Program. Her research interest areas include Trauma, HIV/AIDS and mental health (gender-based violence, substances and child development). She is currently involved in various research projects such as, The GladAfrica Epilepsy project, Study VIII: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with HIV (a multi-countries collaboration). Dr Maphula is immersed in research, community engagement and presents in local radios about psychological related topics.

Dr Tasneem Hassem is a registered HPCSA-Research psychologist and the coordinator of the WitsPlus General Psychology Degree and a WitsPlus lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. Tasneem’s research focuses on digital mental health. She has completed her PhD titled “Adapting an online screening tool for Major Depressive Disorder in South Africa.” She was awarded the Phillip Tobias Scholarship for work on her PhD project and was awarded R100 000 in seed funding to advance the development and commercialisation of the first validated online depression screening tool suitable to the South African context. Tasneem was also selected as one of 40 candidates from across the globe to be part of the International Congress of Psychology’s Emerging Psychologist Program hosted by the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) in July, 2021. 

Dr Bronwyne J Coetzee is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Stellenbosch University. Dr Coetzee teaches child psychology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research falls within two broad fields namely health psychology and mental health. Dr Coetzee supervises a number of masters and doctoral students who work in these areas. Dr Coetzee currently holds a Wellcome Trust Seed award in Science as well as a National Research Foundation (NRF) Thuthuka grant. Her Wellcome Trust award currently supports her work towards developing a school-based mental health intervention for primary school aged children in the Western Cape. Her Thuthuka grant currently supports the development of a caregiver support intervention to improve medication adherence amongst infants 0-5 years old. Dr Coetzee is a member of PsySSA’s Health Psychology Special Interest Group. Dr Coetzee is currently a guest editor for Frontiers in Public Health’s special edition on COVID-19 Policies and Interventions to Enable Preventative Behaviors.

Ms Fatima Peters is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Venda. She lectures on ethics professional and practice issues, community psychology, as well as research methodology. She is the second year B Psychology degree coordinator, supervises students on research and the Bachelor of Psychology counselling practicum. Her research interests are ethics, gender and reproductive health, climate and environmental psychology, and decolonial praxis in higher education.