in Zambia
A few developmental studies were published by Ritchie (1943), Irvine (1963) and MacArthur (1964) in the colonial period of Northern Rhodesia. After Zambia attained political independence in 1964, the beginnings of systematic developmental research can be traced to the formation of the Human Development Research Unit at the Insitute for Social Research in 1965, under the Directorship of UNZA's first Professor of Psychology, Alastair Heron, and is represented in the academic literature by the publications of Jan Deregowski, Susan Goldberg, Alastair Heron, Sophie Kasonde-Ng'andu, Phillip Kingsley, Donald Munro, Irene Maimbolwa-Sinyangwe, Muyunda Mwanalushi, Gertrude Mwape, Morgan Mulenga, Dabie Nabuzoka, Ogbolu Okonji, Robert Serpell and Roderick Zimba.
In recent years, research on human behavioural development has begun to show signs of a renaissance at UNZA, around such topics as learning disabilities
and on children's rights and the situation of street children (in collaboration with Prof Lewis Aptekar of San Jose State University, USA). 
Several doctoral research projects by Zambian scholars on developmental topics are currently under way at UNZA with supportive guidance from Prof Marinus van IJzendoorn and Prof Adriana Bus of Leiden University, Netherlands, Drs Garrod and Glasebrook of Nottingham University, UK, and Dr Dabie Nabuzoka of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Other collaborative relationships with institutions abroad, at an earlier stage of development, include one with Dr Anne-Trine Kjorholt of NTNU, Norway focusing on sociocultural representations of childhood, and another on neuropsychological assessment with Prof Hestad of NTNU and Prof Heaton of the University of California San Diego, USA. |
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