Dr Shahieda Jansen is a clinical psychologist who serves as the Deputy Director: Academic & Technology Support at the Unisa Parow campus in the Western Cape region. She previously headed the HPCSA accredited student counselling centre of the University of the Western Cape where she had oversight of counselling services and clinical supervision of master's level psychology interns.
Her scholarly interests include relational models of human nature, and male-focused development for boys and men. Her book chapter titled Homo moyanus, not Homo neoliberalus: Socio-moral subjectivity for a transformed Higher Education will be published later this year. Her article Inserting the African multidimensional personhood (AMP) model between the personhood of the mental health practitioner and psychological practice was recently published by Taylor & Francis in the journal of Philosophical Psychology.
Shahieda is the principal researcher of Unisa’s Community Engagement project: School Belonging for boys which adds another critical layer of research by highlighting the systemic influences on the academic performance of boys. Shahieda’s longstanding commitment to prioritising humanity over gender culminated in Unisa Press publishing her book, Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinised Psychotherapy.