On 1 July 2020, our department welcomed two new lecturers, Ms Megan Snow and Dr Dale Moodley.
Ms Snow is trained and practicing Clinical Psychology and has a keen interest in the training of clinical students. Her research interests include student mental health and well-being, psychopathology, chronic illness, female mental health, and developmental psychology. Ms Snow is embarking on her PhD, which will explore the lived experience of adolescent children who have a parent diagnosed with a chronic illness. Prior to joining the university full-time, she worked part-time as clinic manager at Welgevallen Community Psychology Clinic and was a consultant at the university’s centre for student counselling and development. Her clinical experience includes work in the public mental health care sector, the department of correctional services and private practice.
Dr Moodley is a registered counseling psychologist. He also holds an honorary research associate appointment in the department of psychology at Rhodes University. Thus far, his collective research output addresses the politics of formal and informal sexual socialisation practices and their role in promoting norms and values that police gendered sexualities. His current research focuses on cultural products, like popular music, as a form of social fantasizing that produces gendered and sexual subjectivities as a site of ongoing complexity.
We are excited to work with our new colleagues and look forward to engaging, learning and teaching with them.