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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
Two UFS academics receive prestigious Sichel Medal
2011-11-22
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| Prof. Abrie van der Merwe, UFS; Prof. Paul Fatti from the University of the Witwatersrand and Chairperson of the selection committee; and Dr Delson Chikobvu, UFS. |
At the recent annual conference of the South African Statistical Association, Prof. Abrie van der Merwe and Dr Delson Chikobvu from the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of the Free Sate, were awarded the prestigious Sichel Medal for the best paper published by a member of the South African Statistical Association in the year 2010.
“The Herbert Sichel Medal is awarded annually to the member (or members) of the Association who have published the best statistical paper during the previous year in a refereed journal, in fully refereed conference proceedings, or as a refereed chapter in a book.”