• Child and adolescent mental health
• Universal prevention programmes
• Developing and implementing CBT-based programmes to support psychological well-being amongst children and adolescents
• Psychosocial and behavioural aspects of chronic illnesses and progressive diseases amongst children, adolescents and adults
  

• HIV and AIDS
• Psychometry
• Psychological test construction and validation
• Measurement theory
• Research on children and adolescents
• Telepsychology​

• Adherence to antiretroviral therapy
• Common mental disorders among persons living with HIV
• Stress and trauma
• Health behaviours; structural barriers to health promotion
• Various topics related to health psychology and public mental health.
  

• Women's mental health
• Poverty and mental health
• Feminist psychology
• Psychology and Biography-writing
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in South Africa
  

• Social and structural inequalities and their impact on the health and well-being of vulnerable and marginalised groups;
• HIV/AIDS and biomedical HIV prevention research
• Community engagement approaches and strategies,
• Chronic illness, health and well-being,
• Qualitative research methods and arts-based methodologies;
• Race and racism in contemporary South Africa 
  

• Non-residential father and daughter relationships
• Women's lived experience of singlehood
• Fathers' and sons' communication about sex
• Student couples' constructions of gender in intimate heterosexual relationships
• Sexuality constructions of Black tertiary educated women
  

Possible Research Foci for Future Students:

• Any component of father-daughter relationships
• Exploring the relationships of gay sons and straight fathers
• Any component of committed, same-sex relationships
  

• Development, implementation and evaluation of CBT-based anxiety prevention programmes for vulnerable South African children.
• Exploring the viability of child-friendly CBT-based activities within a multi-cultural South African context.
  

• Popular culture and music
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Formal and informal sexual socialisation practices
• Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
• Psychosocial research methods
• The intersections between psychoanalysis and poststructuralism.  
  

• Career/Vocational related behaviour, assessment and interventions
• Career Guidance and counselling
•  Applied contextual community psychology assessment and interventions
• Community based participatory action research
• Cross-cultural research
• Ecopsychology and the human-nature interaction
• Masculinities' study
  

• Race and racism (including psychosocial studies of whiteness)
• Nationalism, ethnicity and language ideologies
• Gender and sexualities
• Histories and consequences of psychologization in the global South
• Politics, society and subjectivity in the history of South Africa, and the city and the self
  

• Clinical Neuropsychology
• Psychosocial impact of chronic illnesses, such as Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, Multiple Sclerosis and Dementia
• The role of stigma
  

• Health-related quality of life
• Women's health (including conditions such as endometriosis, female cancers, polycystic ovaries, premenstrual dysphoric disorder)
• Online health-seeking behaviour
• Measurement construction
• Mixed methods research​
  

• Infertility and psychosocial treatment
• The psychology of abstract mathematics
• Muslim Mental Health
  

• Chronic illness
• Developmental psychology
• Health Psychology
• Children and development
• Youth risk behaviour
• Psychopathology
• Women's mental health
  

• Social Psychology
• Intergroup Relations
• Diversity
• Intergroup contact
• Intergroup emotions
• Prejudice and stereotype reduction
• Xenophobia
• Interpersonal friendships.
  

• Disability rights and access
• Disability and mental health issues within sub-Saharan Africa​