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Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo; Malherbe, Nick; van Niekerk, Ashley(2024)
The term Anthropocene (Age of Human) implies that the reduction of carbon emissions is a matter of changing human behaviour. This risks depoliticising the climate emergency. Everyone is not equally responsible for climate ...
Osuret, Jimmy; van Niekerk, Ashley; Kobusingye, Olive; Atuyambe, Lynn; Nankabirwa, Victoria(Taylor & Francis Group, 2024)
Objective: To determine the effect of a school traffic warden program on increasing driver yield and safe child pedestrian crossing behavior in Kampala, Uganda. Methods: We designed and implemented a school traffic warden ...
Navigating the art of theory and practice as three African female research psychology interns in South Africa, we worked in the areas of violence, injury and non-natural deaths which continue to plague the country, including ...
This paper aims to highlight the push factors leading to children’s vulnerabilities especially in historically
impoverished communities in post-apartheid South Africa (SA). These push factors are hangovers that Black1
children ...
As collaborators on projects with epistemic foundations in the diverse everyday realities of different African settings, we respect and endorse the goal of the special issue (SI) to expand “psychological science to include ...
Street children remain a social phenomenon in many low- and middle-income countries in which they experience alienation, discrimination, and social and spatial exclusion. The aim of this study was to identify and understand ...
Background Pedestrian crashes, often occurring while road crossing and associated with crossing behaviour, make up 34.8% of road casualties in Uganda. This study determined crossing behaviour and associated factors among ...
Nabi, Zayaan; Arendse, Najuwa; van Niekerk, Ashley(BMC Public Health, 2023)
Background Injury mortality surveillance systems are critical to monitor changes in a population’s injury outcomes
so that relevant injury prevention responses may be adopted. This is particularly the case in South Africa, ...
Critical psychosocial interventions aim to improve and maintain well-being by addressing the individual and the social as a single psychosocial entity. Critical psychosocial interventions can assist in developing a holistic ...
Adolescent substance use continues to remain a significant problem, especially in low-income communities in South Africa. This phenomenon not only affects individuals and society, but also the parents of the user. Parents ...
Throughout its history, capitalism has undertaken its extractive, imperial, and expropriative
operations under the sign of democracy. Psychology has played a part in the ideological
consolidation of capitalist democracy, ...
For many, anti-capitalism signifies too much and thus lacks the political conviction
needed to inform left-wing strategy and tactics. What remains neglected, though, is
how anti-capitalism can function as an organisational ...
The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a
profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially
devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
Globally, the appraisal of educators remains a contested issue as the process, which aims to provide support
and development to educators, is generally considered a punitive measure for educators. Within the South
African ...
Assuming an autoethnographic orientation and a shifting performative lettering style, I write posthumously to my mother
in response to her question, what do professors do? The letter is a reflexive contribution to ...
The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
Mohamed, Hamza E. A.; Khalil, Ali T.; Hkiri, Khaoula; Ayaz, Muhammad; Abbasi, Jamil A.; Sadiq, Abdul; Ullah, Farhat; Nawaz, Asif; Ullah, Ikram; Maaza, Malik(2023-02-25)
Abstract
Hyphaene thebaica fruits were used for the fabrication of spherical erbium oxide nanoparticles (HT-Er2O3 NPS) using a one-step simple bioreduction process. XRD pattern revealed a highly crystalline ...
Kimemia, David; Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo; Van Niekerk, Ashley(2022)
Energy poverty is pervasive with significant health and well-being ramifications,
especially for the Global South (United Nations Environment Program [UNEP], 2021).
Energy-impoverished communities are those that are ...
Within a dynamic global political arena, the economic ramifications of the
COVID-19 pandemic, energy impoverishment, ever-increasing global
awareness of climate change, energy justice and just energy transition have ...
Cornell, Josephine; Malherbe, Nick; Seedat, Mohamed; Suffla, Shahnaaz(Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice,, 2022)
Researchers have played a significant role in influencing the public’s critical engagement with the South African Police Service (SAPS). Resultantly, SAPS officers tend to be wary and/or untrusting of researchers. In the ...