Miss Akhona Nkwanyana is the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Independent Institute of Education’s Varsity College (IIE VC), based at the Cape Town National office. She has been in the higher education space for the past 4 years, and in research since 2016. Her training and registration are as a Research Psychologist. She is currently completing her PhD, part-time, at the University of the Western Cape, that is seeking to explore the relationship between mental health, diet intake and food insecurity among high school adolescents in South Africa. Some of her research interests also include adolescent substance use and abuse, instrument development and validation, health, data and technology, and programme monitoring and evaluation.