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Liesel Ebersöhn
Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, an educational psychologist by training, is an expert on social dimensions of resilience from an indigenous knowledge stance. She has extensive experience in resilience-enabling pathways to positive health and well-being outcomes in severely challenged Southern African spaces. She is engaged in high-level global education and poverty think tanks, panels and boards, is influential in Global South education development circles and actively supports education policy reform in the Global South based on evidence of resilience-enabling transformation in Africa. She is a recipient of numerous scientific association and national and institutional awards. She is widely regarded as a leading scholar and teacher in connection with resilience and resilience-promoting interventions in settings plagued by the structural disparity characteristic of emerging economies and of Global South countries in transformation. Her research focus has had a decided impact on curricula for teacher training at several higher education institutions in South Africa, and her flocking theory (Relationships Resourced Resilience) is used internationally to frame studies. She is director of the Centre for the Study of Resilience and full professor at the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria. She is the Secretary-General of the World Education Research Association (WERA) and serves on multiple international Editorial Boards, as well as international research and review panels.
Contact: Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, Groenkloof Campus, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.