| Shaida Bobat | Critical Scholarship on Educational and Workplace Transformation in the Global South: Curriculum Justice, Psychological Contracts, culturally-grounded approaches to conflict resolution, AI automation, job precarity, social, ethical, and organisational consequences of digital transformation |
| Motlalepule Lekeka | |
| Duncan Cartwright | Engages psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches to understanding human behaviour and the therapeutic process. Focus areas include brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and relational theory. |
| Khanyisile Nene | Focuses on child and adolescent mental health with an emphasis on neurodevelopment and neuropsychology. |
| Luvuyo Makhaba | Explores human diversity and the intersections of culture, gender, and mental health. Work is rooted in African contexts, examining how cultural meanings shape psychological experience. Research interests include gender and sexuality, and the dynamics of help-seeking behaviour. |
| James Barry Munnik | Research focuses on Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) and its application in addiction treatment and sport psychology. Active interests include cyberpsychology, exploring the interface between artificial intelligence and human behaviour. Additional areas include mental skills training, career and pastoral counselling, AD/HD, learning, memory, and research ethics. |
| Shanya Reuben | Engages a social constructionist approach to promote contextually relevant learning and socio-political awareness. Research spans workplace and organisational psychology, social justice, and equity. |
| Thabani Khumalo | Research centres on addiction recovery through interdisciplinary approaches within African contexts, highlighting the value of community-based recovery models. A parallel focus explores the intersection of counselling psychology and STEM education to promote inclusive socio-economic development. Current work also examines artificial intelligence in African higher education, considering its potential and pitfalls within the Fourth Industrial Revolution. |
| Xoli Mfene | Research spans neurosciences and clinical psychology, focusing on neuropsychological mechanisms underlying neurocognitive dysfunction and rehabilitation informed by neuroplasticity. Current work explores technology-enhanced assessments and interventions, including virtual reality, AI simulations, and digital applications. Broader interests encompass psychogeriatrics, mental health literacy, and neurocognitive development throughout the lifespan. |
| Adele Munsami | Focuses on neuropsychology, adolescent mental health, and psychometric assessment. Research explores cognitive and emotional development during adolescence. |
| Ntokozo Mntambo | Research focuses on the construction and performance of gender, with particular attention to masculinity and mental health. Interests extend to health systems strengthening and implementation science. Additional areas include monitoring and evaluation, and maternal and child health. |
| Dr Zandile Madlabana Luthuli | Focuses on mental health in the workplace and the promotion of resilience. Research interests include women in leadership and human resources for health. |
| Prof Anna Meyer-Weitz | Research focuses on health promotion with an emphasis on workplace and youth wellbeing. Interests include strategies that enhance holistic health across professional and developmental contexts. |
| Ntombekhaya A. Mtwentula-Ndlovu | Research explores grief and bereavement within the South African context, as well as the psychology of wellbeing. Interests include stress, social identity, and adjustment processes. |
| Sachet Valjee | Focuses on interpersonal childhood trauma and developmental trauma, examining their effects across the lifespan. Research seeks to deepen our understanding of how early experiences shape psychological functioning and overall well-being. |
| Kershia Sunjeevan | Research examines intergroup relations, social dynamics, and structural inequality, focusing on how cooperation, competition, and hierarchy shape behaviour. Work integrates experimental, computational, and quantitative methods to study real-time group interactions. Broader interests include socio-economic and developmental psychology in African contexts, decolonial perspectives, and applied ethics training. |
| Leigh Lorimer | Focuses on leadership and organisational development using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Research interests include intervention research and transactional analysis. Additional work explores leadership psychobiography as a means of understanding behaviour and influence. |
| Ruwayda Petrus | Health systems strengthening, change management, mental health in the workplace, psychological well-being, and Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Transformation in higher education. |
| Adelaide Ndlazi | Resilience in Women, Children and Adolescents, Community-Based Mental Health |
| Zamalotshwa Mncube | |
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