Degrees Held
- Bachelor of Social Sciences (Psychology and Legal Studies)
- Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) (Psychology)
- Master of Social Sciences (Counselling Psychology)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Higher Education)
Research Interests
- Self-and co-regulated learning in higher education
- Equity and exceptional academic achievement
- Higher education transformation, and student well-being and development
- Cultural-historical activity theory and emotion
- Visual and mixed methodologies
- Click on link to his Research gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicholas_Munro
Teaching Interests
Undergraduate
Introduction to Psychology
- (Contributor to Psychology 101 and Psychology 102)
Research methods
- (Coordinator and contributor to Psychology 201)
Forensic psychology
- (Contributor to Psychology 306)
Postgraduate
Honours level
Research design
- Contributor to Psychology 701 (Research design)
Conceptual foundations
- Contributor to Psychology 735 (Conceptual foundations)
Masters level
Coordinator of professional psychological programme in counselling psychology
- Coordinator and contributor to Psychology 818 (Theory and practice of counselling psychology)
Professional psychological practice
- Contributor to Psychology 806 (Psychological interventions)
- Contributor to Psychology 809 (Psychological assessment)
- Contributor to Psychology 810 (Community psychology)
Publications / Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- McCullough, K., & Munro, N. (2018). Finance students’ experiences of lecture-based active learning tasks. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 55 (1), 65-73. DOI: 1080/14703297.2016.1189843
- Mngomezulu, S., Dhunpath, R., & Munro, N. (2017). Does financial assistance undermine academic success? Experiences of ‘at risk’ students in a South African university. Journal of Education, 68, 131-148
- Zulu, N.T., & Munro, N. (2017). “I am making it without you, dad”. Resilient academic identities of black female university students with absent fathers: An exploratory multiple case study. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 27 (2), http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14330237.2017.1303114
- Munro, N. (2017). Cognition: Thinking, intelligence and language. In E.M. Schutte (Ed.), Psychology – An exploration. Global and Southern African Perspectives (pp. 291-333). Cape Town, South Africa: Pearson.
- Munro, N. & Samuel, M. (2015). African students who excel in South African higher education: Retro(pro)spectivity and co-regulation of learning. Alternation, 17, 168-189.
- Munro, N., Vithal, R., & Murray, M., (2015). (In)equity of exceptional academic achievement in South African higher education. South African Journal of Higher Education, 29(2), 218-236.
- Munro, N., Quayle, M., Simpson, H., & Barnsley, S. (2013). Hunger for knowledge. Food insecurity among students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Perspectives in Education, 31 (4), 168-179. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/persed_v31_n4_a13
- Munro, N., Chilimanzi, Y. & O’Neill, V. (2012). Covariation of character strengths and dimensions of psychological type in university peer educators. South African Journal of Psychology, 42 (1) 15-24. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/sapsyc_v42_n1_a3
- Munro, N. (2011). The use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in peer education: A positive psychological approach to peer educator training and peer to peer based interventions in higher education. Journal of Counselling and Development in Higher Education Southern Africa 1(1) 37-47. http://www.saacdhe.org/ojs_new/index.php/JCDHESA/article/view/4
Community Involvement
Reviewer
- South African Journal of Psychology
- Alternation
- Innovations in Education and Teaching International
Teaching Expertise
- Intelligence, cognition, and learning
- Career assessment and counselling
- Psychological assessment
- Basic counselling skills
- Interpersonal process in psychotherapy
- Research methods
Student Supervision (Honours, Master, PhD …)
Ongoing supervision of honours, masters, and doctoral students
