Dr. Nathaniel Mayengo is an educational psychologist at the University of Kyambogo with over 20 years of university teaching, graduate supervision, curriculum development as well as coordinator of internship and school practice. Additionally, he is skilled in teacher education reforms, inclusive school development, and psychosocial support for children and youth in Uganda. He is also the founder of Sir Nimrod Junior School and Co-Director of KUC Mental Health Uganda.
In December 2025 he and his colleague, Jane Namusoke, will visit the Danish Center of Psychotraumatology to collaborate with Professor Ask Elklit on a project relating to their field of research.
The project are currently being conceptualized, and updates on their project will be posted under Publications on the website.
Selected publications
- Mayengo, N., Namusoke, J., Kibedi, H., & Amone-P’Olak, K. (2025). Education-to-Work Transition Among the Youth in Post-Conflict Settings: A Review of the Roles of Individual Agency, Mental Health, and Psychosocial Well-Being. Social Sciences, 14(7), 400.
- Namusoke, J., Amone-P’Olak, K., Nakanwagi, C. C., Kibedi, H., Mayengo, N., Ssenyonga, J., & Omech, B. (2024). The mediating role of self-control on the relations between adverse childhood experiences and substance use among adolescents in Uganda. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1297565.
- Namusoke, J., Mayengo, N., Nakanwagi, C. C., Omech, B., Kibedi, H., Ssenyonga, J., ... & Meiser-Stedman, R. (2025). Cognitive Appraisal as a Mediator of the Relations between War Experiences and PTSD in the Formerly-abducted Youth in northern Uganda: Findings from the WAYS Study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
- Nathaniel, M., Kani, O. D., & Bararba, D. (2023). Student Teachers’ Experiences with Classroom Engagement in Large Undergraduate Classes in Selected Public Universities in Uganda. Journal of the National Council for Higher Education Vol, 10(2), 240.
- Mayengo, N., Namusoke, J., Byamugisha, G., Sebukalu, P., Kagaari, J., Auma-Okumu, S.,... & Goretti, M. K. (2018). A study of Ugandan children’s perspectives on peace, conflict, and peace-building: A liberation psychology approach. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 24(3), 35
- Kagaari, J., Nakasiita, K., Ntare, E., Atuhaire, R., Baguwemu, A., Mayengo, N., G., ... & Namusoke, J. (2017). Children’s conceptions of peace in two Ugandan primary schools: Insights for peace curriculum. Research in Comparative and International Education, 12(1), 9-25.
- Mayengo, N., Namusoke, J., & Dennis, B. (2015). The testimony of neoliberal contradiction in education choice and privatisation in a poor country: the case of a private, undocumented rural primary school in Uganda. Ethnography and Education, 10(3), 293-309
