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Erhabor Idemudia (born September 24, 1963) in Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria, is a Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist and Social Scientist. He has taught and done research at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (since 1992), where he obtained his BSc (Hons) in Psychology, MSc in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Clinical Psychology, the University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), South Africa and the North-West University,   South Africa, He has also done research at the SOAS University of London, the International University of Bremen (now Constructor University), Bremen, Germany, the University of California in Los Angeles, USA and the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.

Career
Erhabor Idemudia first worked as a principal Clinical Psychologist at the CATHOLICOED with Reverend Mother Assumpta Nwulu in Benin City, Nigeria and later as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Ibadan Nigeria where he rose to become a Senior Lecturer and then appointed at the University of Namibia, (UNAM) Windhoek,  and later appointed between 2006 and 2009 at the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), South Africa as an Associate professor. In 2010, he was appointed as a Full professor at the North-West University (NWU), South Africa, and later, in 2013, he was appointed as a Professor of Research (Social Science Cluster) at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, NWU, South Africa.

Erhabor Idemudia held several long-term Fellowships, first as a CODESRIA Fellow (1992–1995) and then in 2002 as a CODESRIA Laureate (under the Child & Youth Fellowship Programme) in Dakar, Senegal. In 1997, he was awarded the Leventis Fellowship in SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom, between 1996/97.

In 2003, Erhabor Idemudia was awarded the Alexander Humboldt Fellowship in Germany from 2003 to 2005 with Professor Klaus Boehnke at the former International University, Bremen (now Jacobs University / Constructor University, Bremen, Germany. He is also a Salzburg Fellow, Austria and an NRF Established/Distinguished Rated Scientist (South Africa). Erhabor Idemudia is a 2014 recipient of the Georg-Forster Lifetime Achievement Award in Research from the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, Germany and a recipient of the 2023 and 2024 Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena (Germany) Freiraum Excellence in Research. A Humboldtian (Germany), Erhabor Idemudia is also a Phodiso/SACERT-UCLA Fellow and Advisor (USA) and currently the General Secretary & Registrar of Membership-World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP)-African Chapter and Board member and Fellow, WCP, Austria. He is an Associate Editor with Heliyon (The Netherlands) and formerly an AE to the Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health (South Africa).

Erhabor Idemudia is a Fellow of the Nigerian Psychological Association (NPA), a Fellow of the Nigerian Association of Clinical Psychologists (NACP), a Fellow of the World Council for Psychotherapy, Austria, a Visiting Scholar of Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS), South Africa. He is a member of ISQoLs. His research interests include applied research with vulnerable and marginalised populations in the areas of general psychopathology (CPTSD, PTSS, PTSD, and Trauma) and mental health in general. Such populations include but are not limited to migrants/refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Prisoners, Persons with disabilities or physically challenged. The secondary research focus includes cultural aspects of African-oriented psychology and illness attributions, which overlap the primary focus area and directly challenge the Western-oriented psychopathologies and illness causation from African cultural perspectives. Prof Idemudia has about 450 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books with a wide readership. He has also given press statements in Europe and African migrations. He has an h-index of 25 and an i-10-index of 61, with over 2600 citations according to Google Scholar. He is the author of (with Klaus Boehnke-2010) "I'm an Alien in Deutschland: A Quantitative Mental Health Case Study of African Immigrants in Germany" and "Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries: A Mixed Method Study" (2020).

Erhabor Idemudia currently the Chairperson of three Ethics Committees at the North-West University:


 * 1) Basic and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (BaSSREC),
 * 2) Human and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (HSSREC) and EMELTEN-REC.

He is also a member of the OECD Informal Advisory Group Committee on Subjective Wellbeing Measurement.

Personal Life
Erhabor Idemudia is married to Dr Victoria Onyeka Idemudia (Nee Emordi) and has four children: Aidomo (Aide), Israel (AJ), Ebert, and Barack.