About the Author

Megan Boler is a professor at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Vivienne Bozalek is a professor of social work and the director of teaching and learning at the University of the Western Cape. Stanley D. Brunn is a professor of human geography at the University of Kentucky. Ronelle Carolissen is an associate professor of community psychology and chair of the Department of Educational Psychology at Stellenbosch University. Andre Daniels is an e-learning staff member and the digital media coordinator at the University of the Western Cape. Dianne Dawes is a registered social worker by profession and honorary research fellow at the University of Cumbria. Neil Henderson is currently lecturing in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Western Cape. Brenda Leibowitz is an associate professor and director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Stellenbosch University and is responsible for the work of the First-year Academy. Sorayah Nair is a clinical psychologist and organisational consultant who trained at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch. Lindsey Nicholls lectures at the School for Health Sciences and Social Care at Brunel University, London. Melanie Petersen is currently a senior adviser: student feedback at Stellenbosch University. Poul Rohleder is acting programme leader and principal lecturer in psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and an honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Stellenbosch University. Tamara Shefer is a professor of women's and gender studies and psychology at the University of the Western Cape and deputy dean of teaching and learning in the Faculty of Arts. Toke Smolders has worked for more than forty years as a community development worker with communities at risk in Amsterdam, and as a social work lecturer and coordinator of international policies and projects at the universities of Applied Sciences Hogeschool De Horst (Driebergen) and Hogeschool Utrecht (Amersfoort and Utrecht). Leslie Swartz is a professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University. Lucia Thesen is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town. Henk J. van Rinsum is an historian and anthropologist in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University.