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- Departmental Statistics Permanent and long term contract staff
- TOTAL 27 Honorary staff
- TOTAL 4 Students
- TOTAL 2709 Research Fields and Staff Permanent Staff
Department of PsychologyResearch Report 2006 Head of Department: Associate Professor Sally Swartz Departmental Profile The strength and focus of the Department of Psychology is largely directed to social and cultural issues pertinent to social change in the Southern African content. This orientation applies to a wide range of specific topics, with strong interests in areas such as clinical, health, gender, intergroup relations and child development. Current developments include ongoing work directed towards policy development in mental health, programme evaluation, neuropsychology and trauma studies. Departmental Statistics Permanent and long term contract staff
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Research Fields and Staff Permanent Staff Ms Adelene Africa Forensic psychology, Gender-based violence; Gender and psychopathology; Feminist psychotherapy Dr Oz Ameen Neuropsychology – brain mechanisms of dreaming, emotion, motivation. Psychological mechanisms of confabulation and anosognosia Dr Chiwoza Bandawe Social psychology and in particular cultural aspects of human behaviour and health competence. Impact of poverty on decision-making processes. Poverty and mental health. Anthropological psychology or “uBunthu” as well as social construction of health. Mr Frank Bokhorst Cognitive psychology - language, memory, attention, perception in both experimental and applied research (e.g. computer based education and testing, individual differences in learning and skill acquisition) Dr Floretta Boonzaier Aspects of feminist psychological research, theory and methodology, gender-based violence, and all areas of qualitative methodology in particular narrative and discourse analytic research. Mr Terry Dowdall Child custody; torture; violence; phobia; anxiety; human rights; behavioural treatment Professor Don Foster Most areas of social psychology; political socialisation, ideology and power; intergroup relations and identity Associate Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Trauma, specifically in social context; feminist and other critical approaches to trauma. Forgiveness, apology, and remorse; particularly the role of forgiveness. The psychology of perpetrators and bystanders. Social psychological and psychoanalytic theories of violence and inter-group behaviour. HIV/Aids and trauma. Dr Debra Kaminer Psychological effects of trauma and violence, trauma interventions, most areas of psychopathology, psychodynamic psychotherapy Professor Johann Louw Two major research areas: firstly, in the history of psychology focusing on: historiography; historical developments in psychological interventions and practices; the history of South African psychology; professionalisation; and asylum architecture. A second major area of interest is in programme evaluation: programmes in drug and alcohol prevention; violence prevention in schools and information technology in education Ms Sia Maw Psychological trauma and application of trauma theory in southern African context; working with gender based violence; training and consultation models in psychology Mr David Nunez Presence in virtual environments, psychological issues in virtual computer games and other mediated spaces, computer simulation of social and other complex behaviour, structures in cognition, human factors in relation to machine interface design and evaluation, the use of scientific visualization and computation in psychological research Dr Helgo Schomer Health psychology - psychological impact of life-style changes; emotional reactions to physical exercise intervention; stress management strategies; self-destructive behaviours and mood disturbance; sport psychology - emotional well-being of athletes, cognitive strategies and perception of effort, motivational structures; mood states and optimal performance Dr Nokuthula Shabalala The role of psychology in health care especially in service delivery within primary health care settings, the management of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections at various levels, gender issues and race and identity in contemporary South Africa. Professor Mark Solms Neuropsychology – research and clinical. Brain mechanisms of dreaming, emotion, motivation. Psychological mechanisms Associate Professor Sally Swartz Discourse studies including psychotic speech, language & gender, language and power, language & psychotherapy, conversation analysis; history of psychiatry, including history of South African lunatic asylums; treatment of the insane in South Africa before 1940; social history of insanity in colonial settings Dr Kevin Thomas Cognitive/Clinical Neuropsychology: neural substrates and assessment of spatial cognition; memory function in temporal lobe epilepsy; effects of stress, anxiety, and trauma on memory. Cognitive Aging: effects of age and age-related diseases on memory and spatial cognition; Meta-analysis: quantitative reviews within neuropsychology. Associate Professor Colin Tredoux Social psychology (social identity theory, social influence); psychology and law (all aspects, but especially eyewitness research, child witness research, legal decision making, false memory syndrome); cognitive psychology (face recognition, artificial intelligence); methodology and statistics; philosophy of psychology Yüklə 0,77 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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