Kath Morse
Research Project(s)
- HEY BABY (Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children)
Biography
Dr. Kath Morse is a research officer for the Adolescent Accelerators Research Hub at the Centre for Social Science Research. She is part of the HEY BABY (Helping Empower Youth Brought up in Adversity with their Babies and Young children) research team.
She is passionate about community development and value education as a key to unlocking personal and community potential. She enjoy's designing and facilitating research projects and applying learning to social upliftment programs. She has completed her Masters in Sociology, by Research, at the University of Cape Town and Doctorate in Educational Psychology. Her original training and registration was as a Psychologist in Australia.
She has over 20 years experience in NGO project management, working with children, teens and families, in Australia and South Africa. She enjoy's writing and delivering group work programs as well as running staff training and team development.
Recent Publications
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Morse, K. (2019). “You can be anything” – Career guidance messages and achievement expectations among Cape Town teenagers. South African Journal of Education, 39(Supplement 1), S1–S10. https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v39ns1a1537