Stephen Asatsa is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. He holds a PhD (Counseling Psychology) from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. His research interests include Personality Psychology, Thanatology, and Indigenous Knowledge systems in Psychology. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) and the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He serves on the governing council of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
Pamela Wadende is a Developmental Psychologist at Kenya’s Kisii University, school of education and human resource development. Her interest is how children acquire behaviour and how it develops over their lifespan. A current research focus is creating child-friendly preschool environments and experiences in rural areas of Africa. A Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI/GCRF) grant will help complete one of these projects in rural Kenya and Zambia. She is the co-director of the ISSBD/Jacobs Foundation African professional development fellowship that brings together 10 fellows from six different African countries for professional development and networking opportunities. She is also starting a Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded peace-building project in Lokichoggio among adolescents involved in livestock rustling.
Ivy Kesewaa Nkrumah is a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She has worked with non-governmental organizations, as well as universities, and she has been actively engaged in research, teaching, and mentoring of students. She has a great passion for educational research and has applied her expertise and competencies to support the successful implementation of several community-based programs that promote education. Her current project with the Jacobs Foundation aims at identifying a good model of language education at the lower school level for policy improvement in Ghana and other low and middle-income multilingual countries.
