Dr Madri Jansen van Rensburg has focused her career on resilience of individuals (especially vulnerable groups such as children and women). Madri has conducted various research and evaluation studies in 19 different African countries. She is registered as a research psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and holds two doctorates in Psychology and Consulting Psychology and two Masters’ degrees in Anatomy and Research Psychology. She has a passion for participatory approaches and inclusive studies. Madri places a strong emphasis on practical and implementable research (especially enabling change and resilience on individual, group, organisational or community level) and considers herself a methodologist with an interest in designing participatory methods. She enjoys working in multi-cultural settings using mixed method approaches and is experienced in both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Her experience and background ensure that she has a unique ability to design studies that ensure that a sound theoretical basis and academic foundations are implemented in context relevant methods. She works in various topics including, but not limited to Gender, Youth and Children, HIV and other health projects, Education, Trauma, Community development, Organisational development, and Corporate Social Investment.
