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25 May 2022
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Story Alicia Pienaar
The Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, Prof Heidi Hudson, has the pleasure of inviting you to the inaugural lecture of Prof Paul Fouché in the Department of Psychology.
Event details:
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2022
Time: 17:30 SAST
Venue: Equitas Auditorium, UFS Bloemfontein Campus
RSVP before or on 27 May 2022 to Anneke Diesel, +27 51 401 9314 or email denobilia@ufs.ac.za
Subject:
Understanding Greatness: Dissecting the eminent personality from a psychobiographical approach
About the Speaker:
Paul Fouché has been employed at the UFS since 2007. Currently, he is a professor and a registered counselling psychologist with the HPCSA and an active member of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He is also an NRF C-rated researcher. As research supervisor/co-supervisor, he has graduated 115 postgraduate students.
He served on the editorial committee of Acta Academica, was guest editor of the Journal of Psychology in Africa, and co-editor of special issues on psychobiography for Europe’s Journal of Psychology and two books by Springer. Paul is the
coordinator of the BPsych Honours programme and lectures in the Applied Master’s programme.
Academic credentials:
PhD: 1999, Psychobiography, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
MSocSc cum laude: 1993, Counselling Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
BSocSc Honours cum laude: 1990, Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
BSocSc: 1989, Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
News: Hockey and tennis
2009-05-19
Kovsie counts under SA’s top 25 hockey players
Cherie Smith, a second-year Quantity Surveying student at the University of the Free State (UFS), was appointed as a non-travelling reserve for the SA O/21 women’s hockey team that will participate in the Junior World Cup in the USA. Cherie counts under the top 25 junior hockey players in South Africa.
Two UFS tennis teams compete nationally
The Kovsie men’s and women’s tennis teams were elected to represent the Free State at the National Club Championships in Durban from 21-26 July 2009. Elrien de Villiers, Rensia Henning and Jeanne du Plessis were included in the women’s team and Reon Henning, Willem Steenkamp and P.W. Holtzhausen will represent the men. The women are the defending champions and last year the men ended in fifth place.
Karin Coetzee is also included in the South African Student Tennis Team that will participate from 1-12 June 2009 in the World Student Games in Belgrade, Serbia. The Kovsie coach, Marnus Kleinhans, was also elected as the team’s coach.