Research Supervisor:

Dr Khosi Kubeka

Brief Biography:
Ronald Addinall (He/They), gender nonbinary and queer identified, is a clinical social worker, sexologist and academic at UCT with over 30 years professional practice experience across many fields in social work such as generic social work, the specialist fields of military social work, occupational social work, medical social work, clinical social work, social work supervision & social work management. Now in 2024 he has 15-years’ experience as an academic lecturing in social work, clinical social work, and sexology. He further specialised as a sexologist and sex therapist, under the 22-year professional mentorship of Prof Clint Gould from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Ron established the first ever sexual health clinic in a military health setting at 2 Military Hospital which he managed for 10 years offering sex therapy, sexual health promotion and sexual health prevention programmes. He developed an Introduction to Human Sexuality Workshop for Healthcare practitioners which he presented for several years throughout South Africa in the public, NPO and private health care sector. Ron is a founding member and past board member of the Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA) and a founding member and past board member of the Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa (PATHSA). . Ron served as a specialist member of the research and writing team who, under the auspices of the HIV Clinicians Society, published the first ever Gender Affirming Healthcare Guidelines for South Africa in 2021. In April 2022 Ron was invited to serve on the Transgender and Gender Diversity Advisory Committee of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS).

Title of Dissertation:
The Psychosocial Experiences and Healthcare Needs of the Transgender and Gender Diverse Minority Group: South Africa