Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS)

Prof Shahnaaz Suffla from the ISHS inaugurated as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa PsySSA

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Professor Shahnaaz Suffla from the Institute of Social and Health Sciences

Prof Shahnaaz Suffla from the Institute of Social and Health Sciences

Professor Shahnaaz Suffla from the Institute of Social and Health Sciences, a flagship Institute of the College for Human Sciences, was inaugurated as the President of the Psychological Society of South Africa PsySSA) on the 16th November 2021.

Shahnaaz Suffla is an associate professor in the College for Human Sciences and a senior researcher in the South African Medical Research Council’s funded Masculinities and Health Research Unit (MaHRU).

Professor Suffla’s thinking and scholarship are influenced by the vision of research as a transforming, humanising, and decolonising enterprise. Her research interests include a focus on community-engaged interventions in contexts of structural and epistemic violence, participatory engagement as a site of activism, resistance and social change, and Africa-centered knowledges and knowledge-making. Her activist scholarship is placed within several local, regional and international level research partnerships.  

Professor Suffla is an internationally recognised activist researcher known for her scholarship and prolific publications on visual methodologies; community accompaniment and creative modes of writing and representations of everyday violence and resistance.   

Professor Suffla is an editorial team member for select journals, including Social and Health Sciences, Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Community Psychology in Global Perspective, and Feminism and Psychology.

During her Presidency, Professor Suffla and her executive committee will continue the work of transforming the orientation and locus of organised psychology y and cognate disciplines.

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Publish date: 2021-11-29 00:00:00.0

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