Prof Antoinette Lombard, who has also been appointed for another tearm as the Head of Social Work and Criminology.  Please see their biosketches and visions for their respective departments below.

                                                                 
                       From left to right: Proff David Maree, Adelia Carstens and Antoinette Lombard


Biosketch:
Professor David Maree joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Pretoria in 1999 as full professor. He has coordinated the MA Research programme since 2000 – and together with a group of dedicated lecturers has contributed to the graduation of almost 100 of the programme’s students over the past 12 years. Some of these graduates have since reached the highest ranks in their respective fields.

ProfessorMareehas lecturedthe Research Methods course in the Psychology honours programme since 1998.He has developed anempirical research methods course for master’s students, and has introduced Raschmodelling in psychometrics at the master’s level – a technique that is slowly gaining prominence in SouthAfrica.

Professor Maree has also supervised research of eight doctoral and 25 master’s students to completion. Some of these students are currently on the staff of the Department. Since his appointment, he has been involved in management activities in the Department and has served on a number of committees in the Faculty. During the past three years he served as the acting head, first of the Department of Philosophy and subsequently the Department of Psychology. Over the years Professor Maree has also served on various psychology committees. Most recently, he served as the Chair of the Division of Test Development of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress of Psychology. He was recently elected as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa(PsySSA) for 2013/14.

His vision for the Department of Psychology
Professor Maree’svision for the Department of Psychology for the next four years includes strengthening the Department’s contributions to research and teaching excellence. He aims to lead the Department towards becoming the institution of choice for students, researchers and academics.

Adelia Carstens

Biosketch
Professor Adelia Carstens started her academic career at UP in 1983 as a lecturer in Afrikaans linguistics, and was promoted to full professor in 1998. In 2005 she transferred to the Unit for Academic Literacy (UAL) and became its Deputy Director in 2007. In 2009 Professor Carstens was offered the headship of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education, and remained in this position until June 2012.

During her career she designed and developed curricula for various modules in linguistics, document design and applied linguistics (lexicography, terminology and secondlanguage writing) – both in English and Afrikaans, of which the most recent are two specialised academic literacy modules for BEd students.

Carstens holds two doctorates: a DLitt et Phil in Afrikaans Linguistics from UnisatitledDie Komposisionaliteitsbeginsel en die Grammatika van Afrikaans (1990), and a DPhil in Linguistics from the University of Pretoria (2010), titledA genre approach in teaching academic writing to students of the humanities and social sciences. During her research career she has initiated and headed several research projects, which include 40 articles in accredited journals, an edited book, and a number of book chapters. Her current research interests, and those of her master’s and PhD students, include writing in the disciplines (WID), the use of disciplinary narratives in teaching academic literacy, and multimodal meaning making. In 2011 she obtained her NRF rating. Carstens is Deputy Chair of the Applied Linguistics Association of South Africa.

Her vision for the UAL
Professor Carstens’ vision for the UAL is to become a leader in teaching, curriculum design and research in the field of academic and professional literacies, while empowering staff and students “as the University’s core human capital asset” and “embracing diversity to enrich the University’s intellectual environment and improve graduate outcomes”(UP 2025 Plan). In the ‘new’ UAL she envisages a productive tension between the student: a passionate individual with interests to cultivate and express – and an academymade up of dynamic and diverse disciplines whichimposes very specific expectations on students. Finally, she advocatesintegrative, mutually consultative planning of academic and professional literacy interventions with all stakeholders, in an atmosphere informed by research and on-going review.

Antoinette Lombard

Biosketch:
Professor Antoinette Lombard obtained her BSocSci (SW) degree at the University of the Free State, her MA (SW) degree at the former Randse Afrikaanse University (now UJ) and a DPhil (SW) degree at the University of Pretoria. She started her career at the South African Association for Health Promotion, briefly as therapist before shifting focus to macro practice as a community worker. Professor Lombard worked as senior community liaison officer at the Department of National Health and Population Development and joined the University of Pretoria in 1988. She became full professor in 2002; Head of the Department of Social Work in 2004; and in 2005 the Head of the Department of Social Work and Criminology.

Professor Lombard has published extensively. Her publications include a large number of journal articles, chapters in books and a textbook on community work and community development. She has participated in 35 international and numerous national conferences. More than 40 postgraduate students completed their studies under her supervision.

She is a board member of the International Association for Schools of Social Work (IASSW) where she represents the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). She serves on the IASSW Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development task force and chairs the IASSW’s Education Capacity Building Committee. Professor Lombard is the Africa representative on the board of the International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD).

She served for a period of 15 years in various professional bodies, including the Interim Council for Social Work, the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) and Professional Board for Social Work. She chaired the Standard Generating Body for Social Work, which developed the first registered minimum standards for the BSW programme in South Africa in 2003. She also chaired the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) research and policy development process, culminating in the first CPD policy of the SACSSP.

Professor Lombard serves on the editorial boards of various international and national journals. She is a rated researcher within the National Research Foundation system in South Africa.

Her vision for the Department of Social Work and Criminology
Within the context of the UP Strategic Plan 2025, Professor Lombard’s vision for the Department of Social Work and Criminology for the next four years involves a continued striving towards excellence by increasing the impact of its research through publishing more frequently in ISI-listed journals; increasing postgraduate throughputs; strengthening the Department’s international profile and regional (Africa) collaborations and partnerships; further strengthening the Department’s contributions to South Africa’s economic and social development; remaining at the cutting edge of the trends and debates in its core disciplines (ie social work and criminology); and attracting larger cohorts of postdoctoral students.