PhD (Educational Psychology)

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Prof. Liesel Ebersöhn (Director: Centre for the Study of Resilience, Full Professor: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria), is a registered educational psychologist, expert on social dimensions of resilience and President of the World Education Research Association President. Her theory, Relationship-Resourced Resilience, draws on Sub-Saharan Africa evidence to describe social-resilience responses to counter chronic adversity (i.e. collective efficacy and -agency responses to disruption that manage finite resources in sustainable ways to support contextually-unpredicted positive education, health and wellbeing outcomes). Through membership and invited engagement in global education and wellbeing platforms, she is influential world-wide in education development circles to inform policy, training and practice for sustainable transformation in the Global South. She has published more than a 130 peer-reviewed articles, as well as monographs, edited and co-authored books, and book chapters, and has supervised over 100 postgraduate students to completion.