Ms Elna Theron, lecturer in the Department of Psychology, retired at the end of March. She joined the Department in March 1977 after working as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria. She was responsible for the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Social Psychology. Her main areas of research focused on conflict, aggression and violence, and multicultural aspects of diversity. She collaborated on several international research projects on aggression and violence, for example, with Prof Martin Ramirez of Complutense University in Spain.