Neo Pule is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and a registered Counselling Psychologist with 15 years of practice experience. Her role at UJ and other South African universities where she has worked, involves the training of professional counselling psychologists. She is currently the Programme Manager of the MA Counselling Psychology program at UJ. Dr Pule holds a doctoral degree in Consulting Psychology, which focuses on working and understanding the system psychodynamics of individuals, groups and organizations. Specifically, she focused her doctoral thesis on exploring the social construction of student leadership in a South African university using social dream drawing. Her work on social dreaming continued as she explored further projects with student leaders in South Africa, one of which was funded by the National Research Foundation (South Africa), through the Black Academic Advancement Program. Additionally, the same project attracted the Newton Fund Researcher Links Travel Grants, British Council. This grant facilitated the strengthening of her collaborative work with social dreaming-focused researchers in the UK, at the University of the West of England and the University of Central Lancashire. Currently, Dr Pule is a visiting research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is pursuing a UK-SA program with Prof Julian Manley on the decolonization of Higher Education through social dreaming. Dr Pule is a current director of the Centre for Social Dreaming. Her publication record spans various South African and international journals focusing on her social dreaming research, supervising MA and PhD programs and acting as an article reviewer for various journals focusing on psychology, student development and related fields. Furthermore, she is a current special issue guest editor for the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa.
