School of Applied Human Sciences

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

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