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CarolKatlego Molokoe

Research Psychology
Durban

Summary

I am an ambitious candidate with passion to make a difference. I am driven by strong moral values, and that a balanced life is important for family, personal and my career, and a society as a whole. I am driven by challenges, and the strong leadership that I have enable me to empower the underprivileged and to inspire others.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Institutional Researcher

Private Academic Institution
  • 1. Collecting data about the performance of the institution.
  • 2. Collecting data about the institutions internal and external environment.
  • 3. Collects, develops, analyses and communicates institutional data and other information to constituents throughout the university, to support and enhance informed decision-making, problem solving, strategic planning, policy development, and institutional self-assessment.
  • 4. Develops and implements processes for collecting, linking, and analysing data from a variety of sources.
  • 5. Analysing and interpreting the collected data on a project, ongoing and on an ad hoc basis.
  • 6. Setting up and maintaining a database to store information. (Big Data).
  • 7. Data management is important because the data the researcher collects of and for the organization is a very valuable resource and must be stored effectively and efficiently.
  • 8. Extract information from database to create meaningful inferences from data.
  • 9. Disseminating information to internal and external stakeholders in order to support planning set policies and make academic and management decisions.

Tutor

University of South Africa (UNISA)
  • Module: Community Psychology (PYC2614)
  • KPA 1: Facilitate online delivery of tutorial material
  • Deliver tutorials to groups of 200 students
  • Facilitate the students’ construction and building of knowledge
  • Assess students' work and give substantive formative feedback on each student’s work where applicable.
  • Creating a comfortable learning environment where students feel respected and encouraged.
  • Participate in tutor-resource development where applicable
  • Familiarise self with the content and pedagogy of the subject
  • Familiarise self with the Unisa Virtual Learning Environment
  • KPA 2: Manage students’ learning experiences online
  • Facilitate the testing of students’ constructed knowledge through interacting with their Peers
  • Monitor student participation in online activities follow up with students who are not participating in online discussion to assess the reasons for this Monitor and report on the students’ progress
  • KPA 3: Facilitate students’ interactions with their peers online
  • Help students to set up discussion forums and chat rooms
  • Initiate and monitor discussions on the discussion forums and chat rooms
  • Motivate and encourage students to actively participate in their learning and become independent learners
  • KPA 4: Provide students with academic and technical support online
  • Provide support to students on the Learning Management System and technologies used in the university and the module
  • Act as a point of contact for students' queries
  • Complete and submit periodic reports as per requirements of the Academic Department
  • Refer students in need of specialized professional or administrative or technical support to relevant departments
  • Inform the tuition team of common difficulties and misunderstandings students encounter with the study material content, prescribed books and other study areas
  • Help enhance the student’s experience by liaising with the Academic Support
  • Coordinator and module lecturers in addressing students’ concerns

Research Supervisor

MSA IIE VARSITY COLLEGE (Westville campus)
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Modules: INRP 8419 and RESE8419
  • Supervise students from the proposal stage through to submission of the final mini dissertation / innovation project.
  • Ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the research and supervisory functions.
  • Provide guidance to students on all aspects of the research journey.
  • Guide the student on the planning and structure of the research report in accordance with IIE guidelines (policy and process).
  • Participation in the required supervisor training and workshops offered.
  • Assist with the implementation of changes resulting from all review processes.
  • Ensure successful submission and completion within the given timelines.
  • Work closely with other staff members in the broader Research and Postgraduate Studies Unit.

Research Associate

Global Well, Belgium
11.2022 - 04.2023
  • - Through research output scrutinize evidence
  • - Writing substantiated analysis (dialectic approaches)
  • - Translating difficult themes into public summaries
  • - Use of critical skill and challenging the current biomedical and social models.

Postgraduate Research Coordinator

MANCOSA (Durban Branch)
03.2020 - 11.2022
  • RESEARCH COORDINATOR CORE PURPOSE To serve a central role in supporting postgraduate research student success through effective coordination and appropriate, quality academic input.
  • Conducting webinar lecturing sessions for postgraduate (Honours, Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Administration) students and assisting lecturers with webinars
  • Coordinating research studies of 471 Masters Students; reviewing research papers of 72 Honours students and Supervising 4 honours research students.
  • Internal Reviewer: Reviewing and marking honours research reports.
  • Verification and Ratification Committee: I was a panel member for the VRC Committee. The role of this committee was to peer-review all the research papers title topics, as well as the methodology, and share views amongst the panel, and give feedback to both the Student and the Supervisor.
  • Assistance with research topics: provision of accurate and well-researched topic feedback and general topic assistance to students
  • Assistance with research proposals: submission of research proposals through Turnitin; provision of informed, well-researched, and well-considered written guidance and advice on research proposals; identification of research topics which have/may have ethical issues
  • Advise and direct students through the process of applying for ethical clearance
  • Monitor the progress of all assigned students: ensure that all student submissions, feedback, attachments, allocation letters and communications are appropriately recorded; acknowledge and offer resolution to any research and/or administrative related challenges raised by students; seek to resolve disputes between students and supervisors
  • Student consultations: host consultation sessions with students (telephonic, MS Teams or Zoom) in order to provide relevant assistance; provide accurate and well informed advice on research related matters

Data Manager

Centre for Rural Health (CRH) in UKZN (Howard College)
04.2019 - 03.2020
  • Duties:
  • To develop data collection tools, collecting of quantitative and qualitative data (or supervision thereof) and data entry (or supervision thereof). Supervision involved supervising fieldworkers in Amajuba District.
  • Emailing, word processing and the use of spreadsheets.
  • Analysing data (qualitative or quantitative) with the use of data analysis software e.g. Nvivo and SPSS.
  • Managing data including data validation, cleaning and filing it.
  • Undertaking research activities in rural areas and facilitating data collection processes.
  • Experience in public health-related research
  • Presentation of research public health-research data in meetings.
  • Travelling to rural areas.

Qualitative Researcher & Project Manager

Doctors without Borders-MSF
02.2018 - 06.2018
  • I was heading a research project and a research team in the Phase 1 of the current study, that is, “An implementation study on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa”.
  • Duties:
  • To implement, supervise and monitor the phase I of the study as per protocol with the support of Eshowe project medical referent and project epidemiologist.
  • To contribute to the training of site counsellors / chaps for the recruitment of participants for interviews and focus groups
  • To organize the site teams and ensure the proper recruitment and management of participants at each study site.
  • To organize the focus group sessions in MSF office or other settings if needed.
  • To ensure that all participants have understood the condition of the Study Phase I and have signed an informed consent before the start of the sessions.
  • To supervise and contribute to the interview of key informants, in depth interviews and focus group discussions
  • To supervise and contribute to the data transcription from the records made during focus groups and interviews
  • To daily provide the research team (project medical referent, epi, medical and patient support manager) with the key finding of the sessions of the day after the debriefing with the qualitative assistant researchers.
  • To summarize the key findings at the end of the phase I.
  • To enter or supervise entry of the transcription into Nvivo software.
  • To perform the analysis in Nvivo.
  • To finalize the phase II survey questionnaire together with the study epidemiologist.
  • To support the review of IEC material and Counselling content according to Phase I findings.
  • To write a final report on the phase I of the Study.
  • To write or contribute to the writing of conference abstracts and articles together with the study team. In this study I also worked with adolescents, middle generations and the older generations.

Intern Research Psychologist

Rhodes University
01.2016 - 12.2017
  • Duties:
  • I have registered as an intern research psychologist at HPCSA, and was interning at Rhodes University and also leading a project, under the Critical Studies in Sexuality and Reproduction (CSSR); undertaking the following duties:
  • O Reviewing literature and Proposal writing
  • O Research protocol and ethics
  • O Logistical arrangements
  • O training data collectors
  • O Overseeing the data collection process
  • O Collecting data where necessary, coding data and
  • O Performing statistical analyses.
  • Title for the study is “Alcohol use during pregnancy in the Eastern Cape: Research in support of FASfacts intervention”. This research study was part of Eastern Cape Liquor Board, at the Buffalo City Municipality, aiming to improve the livelihoods of the society and alleviating factors that contribute to misuse of alcohol.
  • In addition to my responsibilities, I was part of the Sexual Violence task team, in which the aim of this task team was to find or identify the Rhodes University policies that do not protect the victims of rape, and also to explore the ways in which the Rhodes University deals with matters such as violence, rape in all the spheres of the University, i.e. students, lecturers, cleaners, gardeners, and all the University staff members. As such, the Commission for Gender Equality visited the University to also do their investigation, in which I was a facilitator of this steering team meeting and minuted the meeting.

Education

Grade 12 - Mathematics, Life Science, Agricultural Science, Life Orientation, Setswana First Language, English Second Language

Motuba High School

Bachelor of Psychology - B. Soc. Science in Psychology

North West University

Honours in Psychology - HONS. B. Soc. Science in Psychology

North West University

Master of Arts - Research Psychology

North West University

Ph.D. - Psychology Health Science

North West University
Potchefstroom, South Africa
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Microsoft Office (excel, word and PowerPoint)
  • Communication & Presentation skills
  • Scientific writing skill

Certification

I am also a Professional Online Transcriber, and have obtained Online Transcription Certification in 2023.

Accomplishments

  • I did training in qualitative research interviews and facilitation of focus groups, which included aspects of transcription and data analysis.
  • I have participated on an “Anti-bullying campaign: Sustaining the Anti-Bullying Campaign in School” at MANCOSA
  • I have attended the 2017th PAPU (Pan African Psychological Union) Conference in Durban, to present a research paper of the above stipulated research study.
  • I have completed training on Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Human Research Ethics Training by Macquarie University.
  • Participated at the South Korean Global Watch that was held in 2012.
  • Its main purpose was to create an awareness about sustainable development, and how to use the things, such as the land to change people`s life, to empower them and to give them skills in terms of agriculture & technology, and how they can empower themselves through those skills.
  • I did SPSS (Statistical Package in Social Science) training in North West University, and a training in STATA (Statistica) at University of Cape Town, offered by the Southern Africa Labour Development Research Unit.
  • Former Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.
  • Participated in Participatory Action Research in Honours level. The project was focused on Mafikeng High School learners (Grade 08`s). Its main purpose was to empower and develop strategies to cope with High school pressure and maintain emotional intelligence (EI).

References

Sarika, Singh, Stakeholder Manager, Sarikasingh0109@gmail.com, 0848385580, MANCOSA

Publications

  • Master’s dissertation:
  • “Mechanisms in Dynamic Interplay with Contexts in a Multigenerational Traditional Food Preparation Initiative Involving Rural South African Women.”
  • Co-authored a manuscript entitled “‘To Walk Bare Foot’: Perceptions of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV prevention in a high-burden setting in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.” Currently submitted for publication.
  • Co-authored a manuscript entitled “Alcohol use during pregnancy: Prevalence and Patterns in selected Buffalo City areas, South Africa.”

Personal Details

  • ID No.: 9102070602086
  • Citizenship: South African
  • Gender: Female
  • Marital Status: Single
  • Home Language: Setswana
  • Other Languages: English, Xhosa, Zulu, Sepedi, Sotho
  • Drivers Licence: Code 08
  • Residential Address: 18 Karley Close Street, Reservoir Hills, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4091

Timeline

Research Supervisor

MSA IIE VARSITY COLLEGE (Westville campus)
01.2023 - 01.2024

Research Associate

Global Well, Belgium
11.2022 - 04.2023

Postgraduate Research Coordinator

MANCOSA (Durban Branch)
03.2020 - 11.2022

Data Manager

Centre for Rural Health (CRH) in UKZN (Howard College)
04.2019 - 03.2020

Qualitative Researcher & Project Manager

Doctors without Borders-MSF
02.2018 - 06.2018

Intern Research Psychologist

Rhodes University
01.2016 - 12.2017

Ph.D. - Psychology Health Science

North West University
04.2001 -

Institutional Researcher

Private Academic Institution

Tutor

University of South Africa (UNISA)

Bachelor of Psychology - B. Soc. Science in Psychology

North West University

Honours in Psychology - HONS. B. Soc. Science in Psychology

North West University

Master of Arts - Research Psychology

North West University

Grade 12 - Mathematics, Life Science, Agricultural Science, Life Orientation, Setswana First Language, English Second Language

Motuba High School

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