School of Applied Human Sciences

Historian and UKZN lecturer Professor Donal McCracken’s book, Nicholson: How an Angry Irishman became the Hero of Delhi, was 12 years in the making and took him to India, Ireland and Britain.

The Discipline of Criminology and Forensic Studies (CFSD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus was visited by the KwaZulu-Natal South African Police Service, Forensic Science Laboratory Experts to deliver a practical lecture for ALL CFSD students on the 28th of March 2019.

UKZN staff member Dr Shariefa Hendricks graduated with a PhD in Psychology for her research titled, A Dance of Power and Resistance: Supervisee and Supervisor Perceptions and Experiences of Clinical Supervision in South Africa: A Mixed Method Study. The study explored supervisees’ experiences of negative supervision during internship and supervisors’ perspectives of their training and competence in clinical supervision.

Ms Shannon-Leigh Landers graduated cum laude with her Master of Social Science in Media and Communication. Her dissertation examined soap opera as a feminine genre through the theoretical lens of semiotics, focussing on the role of myth, ideology, power and hegemony which are often used to inculcate skewed gendered stereotypes.

South African child rights activist and former Director of Childline Dr Joan van Niekerk graduated with a PhD in Social Work.

Criminologists in the School of Applied Human Sciences, Drs Sazelo Mkhize and Sogo Angel Olofinbiyi’s research on “Social dimension of risk behaviours among adolescent prostitutes: Insight from South-Western Nigeria” has been published in the Cogent Social Sciences academic journal.

Ms Londeka Ngubane, of the School of Applied Human Sciences, was recently appointed by the Minister of Transport Dr Blade Nzimande to serve on a Panel of Experts in relation to a new transport system that he will be launching soon.