Janine Jantjies

Expertise: Project management, effective leadership, processes from initiating, planning, executing, and closing research programmes. 

Janine is the Programme Manager at the DPRU. She obtained her Master’s degree in Research Psychology at the University of the Western Cape, and started her career at a crime and violence prevention research institute. Here, her research focused on crime and violence affecting children in schools, both nationally and abroad. She later moved into the Education Curriculum and Early Learning Support Intervention sector, where she performed her role as project manager on a 100-school pilot LTSM intervention programme. In 2022 she joined the DPRU as a programme manager responsible for the coordination of all the Unit's research projects.