Prof Brian Watermeyer is associate professor at the Division of Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, in the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch University, specialising in psychological approaches to disability inequality. He  trained as a clinical psychologist (M.A. {Clin. Psych.}) at the University of Cape Town, before completing a doctorate in psychology (D. Phil), focusing on disability studies, at Stellenbosch University. He was first editor of South Africa’s first major text in disability studies, entitled Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda, published in 2006 (HSRC Press). His second book, Towards a Contextual Psychology of Disablism, was published internationally by Routledge in 2013, and re-published in Greek translation in 2023. His most recent book is The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (New York: Palgrave), edited by B. Watermeyer, J. McKenzie and L. Swartz (2019). In addition, Prof Watermeyer has an extensive list of international journal publications, book chapters, and media appearances as a disability scholar and activist, as well as a person with disability himself (severe visual impairment). He has taught on a host of postgraduate programmes at Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape, in disability studies, clinical psychology, general psychology, medicine and rehabilitation science.