Kobus Maree
Kobus Maree is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria. His main research interests are career construction counselling for life designing, emotional intelligence and social responsibility, and learning facilitation in mathematics. He links research results to appropriate career choices and to life designing.
He is a past editor of the South African Journal of Psychology, managing editor of Gifted Education International, co-editor of the SA Journal of Science and Technology and a member of several national and international bodies, including the National Career Development Association (USA), the Society for Vocational Psychology (SVP) (USA), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) (USA), the Psychology Association of South Africa (SA), the South African Academy of Science and Arts (SA Acad) and the Association of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). Since 2002 he has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and 60 books or chapters in books.
In 2009 he was awarded the Stals prize of the South African Academy of Science and Arts for exceptional research and contributions to psychology and in 2014 the Stals prize for exceptional research and contributions to education. In 2014 he received the Psychological Society of South Africa’s (PsySSA) Award for Excellence in Science. Maree was awarded honorary membership of the Golden Key International Honour Society for exceptional academic achievements, leadership skills and community involvement in 2014. He has supervised 43 doctoral theses and master’s dissertations since 2001. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal for Teaching and Learning from the University of Pretoria in 2010 and has been nominated successfully as an exceptional academic achiever on four consecutive occasions (2003–2016).
He has a B rating from the NRF. A regular keynote speaker, he was, inter alia, invited to be one of two State-of-the-Science speakers at the 5th World Conference of Psychology, Counselling and Guidance (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2014; topic: Examining the merits of a brief, quantitative+qualitative (career) counselling strategy) and was one of the State-of-the-Science speakers at the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), the flagship event on the international psychology calendar (Paris, July 2014; topic: Connecting life-themes to construct self-portraits). He was awarded a fellowship of the IAAP at that conference.
