Anthea Lesch
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| Born | 1972/07/03 Western Cape |
| Nationality | South African |
| Occupation | community psychologist , academic |
| Awards | Rector's Award for General Performance-2011 & 2014 Fellowship by the Institute for Arts and Liberal Science- 2019 |
Anthea Lesch (born July 3, 1972, Green Point, Western Cape Province) is a South African academic
Education
She began her education journey in primary school in 1978 and graduated from high school in 1991. She studies at the University of the Western Cape and has obtained Masters degrees from Rhodes University Master of Commerce, Sussex University (UK) Masters of Science, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health(US) (MPH). She obtained her PhD from Stellenbosch University.
Academic work and Activist work
Lesch is a psychologist, scholar, senior lecturer, and activist currently based in the Psychology Department[1] at Stellenbosch University. Throughout her career, she has held a variety of positions. In 2007, she was the National Co-Ordinator of the Socio-Behavioral Working Group[2], South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI), Dept. of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has co-authored a number of peer-reviewed social science journals.[3] In 2022, she participated in the Psychology Society of South Africa dialogue on the project titled Psychology and the Pan-African Project.[4]
She is known for her work on psychological paradigms in public health. Her research explores lived experiences of structural violence: poverty and social inequality, race and racism, and the ways in which these forms of violence impact the well-being of vulnerable and marginalized individuals and communities. She is particularly interested in interrogating societal narratives and representations of vulnerable and marginalized citizens. Her current study investigates community participation mechanisms in biomedical HIV, utilizing creative research methods for investigating black sexual and reproductive health in women's health literacy, as well as documentation of people's lived experiences life on the city's streets.[5] She worked at JIAS and wrote a series of essays that utilized ethnographic approaches to political narrative to investigate race, racism, and the communal racial consciousness in South Africa in the present day.
References
- ↑ hagen. "Home". Stellenbosch University Psychology Department. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
- ↑ hagen. "Dr. Anthea M. Lesch". Stellenbosch University Psychology Department. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ↑ de Wet, Anneliese; Swartz, Leslie; Kagee, Ashraf; Lesch, Anthea; Kafaar, Zuhayr; Hassan, Neil R.; Robbertze, Danté; Newman, Peter A. (2019-07-05). "The trouble with difference: Challenging and reproducing inequality in a biomedical HIV research community engagement process". Global Public Health. 15 (1): 22–30. doi:10.1080/17441692.2019.1639209. ISSN 1744-1692.
- ↑ Invited Panel: Psychology and the Pan-African Project, retrieved 2023-10-17
- ↑ "International Society of Critical Health Psychology". International Society of Critical Health Psychology. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
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