Makondelele Makatu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Venda. She was one of the 2016 Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) fellows and a full member of the Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). She is an Exco member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) and a Teaching Advencement at University fellow. Over the years, she participated in many academic and community development initiatives, capacity building and mentoring activities. Her other research projects conducted were “widows’ bereavement and related rituals; siblings of mentally retarded children; coping with special health care needs; parental support towards adolescents’ pregnancy; and adolescents and financial stress in the family. Currently she is leading a project focusing on developing responsible citizens amongst in-school youth. She has successfully supervised and co-supervised eight Master and four PhD students. She is an author and co-author of more than 14 peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
