Research

Several national and international funded research projects are lead and undertaken by staff members of the Department of Educational Psychology, as captured below.

Project	Focus/purpose	Principal investigator/s	Others involved
Flourishing Learning Youth (FLY)	Investigating (i) resilience in a rural school, and (ii) cross-cultural measures for assessment and therapeutic intervention	Prof L Ebersöhn	Prof C Lubbe-De Beer Edith Cowan University University of California, San Francisco PennState University Murdoch University Postgraduate students
International Mentoring of Advanced Graduates for Interdisciplinary Excellence (IMAGINE)	Establishing a trans-disciplinary research and education programme that contributes to the sustainability and resilience of the greater Kruger National Park socio-ecological system	Prof L Ebersöhn	Mrs M Malan Van Rooyen Dr F Omidire University of the Witwatersrand SANParks North Carolina State University Nipissing University University of Saskatchewan Postgraduate students
Supportive Teachers, Assets and Resilience (STAR)	Investigating teachers’ role in support of resilience in contexts of vulnerability	Prof R Ferreira Prof L Ebersöhn	Dr T Loots Mrs K Botha Postgraduate students
Supporting Home Environments in Beating Adversity (SHEBA)	Investigating how strength-based intervention research can assist community volunteers to support vulnerable communities	Prof R Ferreira Prof L Ebersöhn	Dr S Bester Postgraduate students
Shongolollo Expressive Sandwork	Investigating the utility of sandwork in resource-constrained communities and contexts of diversity	Prof C Lubbe-De Beer	Postgraduate students
Building resilience in families: The role of care workers in mitigating family risk factors	Investigating the role of care workers in supporting resilience in South African township families coping with adversity	Dr R Mampane	Prof R Ferreira Postgraduate students
Exploring a monitoring and feedback system for the Foundation Phase: Innovations and developments to track learner performance	Further developing the South African Monitoring and Feedback System for Primary Schools (SAMP)	Dr V Scherman	Postgraduate students
Imbeleko Social Connectedness	Investigating indigenous pathways to promote resilience in children	Prof L Ebersöhn	Dr R Mampane Dr MM Sefotho Dr V Scherman Dr T Loots Dr F Omidire Postgraduate students
Determinants of family resilience	Investigating the relationship between resilience processes, motivation and commitment in families	Dr R Mampane	Prof S Human-Vogel Prof Christopher Niemiec Postgraduate students
Schools as sites for social change: Facilitating adjusted behaviour in resource-constrained communities by empowering children (Win-LIFE)	Investigating the potential value of schools as vehicles of change in facilitating health and well-being by means of healthy food production, food choice and food consumption behaviour (Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being)	Prof R Ferreira Ms G Gericke (Human Nutrition) Prof P du Toit (Physiology)	Ms K Botha Prof S Human-Vogel Prof C Lubbe-De Beer Prof W Fraser Faculty of Health Sciences Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Postgraduate students
Designing a strategy for administering cost-effective career counselling to South African learners	Tracing the impact (effect) of a brief, postmodern approach to (strategy for) Career Counselling on South African learners	Prof JG Maree	Prof L Fletcher Prof J Sommerville
Test development in Botswana and other SADEC countries	Developing tests for use in Botswana and other SADEC countries	Prof E Mpofu	Prof JG Maree Prof T Oakland Dr K Ntinda Dr E Seeco
Assessing the merits of (i) a brief approach to career counselling and (ii) the Career Interest Profile and Maree Career Matrix	Assessing the degree to which learners learn about careers during the assessment process: Educational component is randomly assigned to students with half receiving it and half not, pre-test uses the measure, then offering training aspect to the treatment group, and then a post-test using Maree measure	Prof JG Maree	Prof L Fletcher Prof J Sommerville
Junior Tukkie Project	Designing a strategy to attract and retain promising students to/at the University of Pretoria	Prof P Lombaard	Dr P Clase Prof JG Maree
Understanding bullying in schools	Exploring bullying in schools and describing social networks with the aim of implementing interventions at the Grade 4 level	Dr V Scherman	Fordham University

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