Melody Ngaidzeyuf Ndzenyuiy

Doctoral student

Abteilung für Vergleichende Kulturpsychologie
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

Thesis title: Experience Sampling Research using Participant's own Smartphones to assess cross-cultural variation in parenting styles

Research Interests

Understanding Interdisciplinary Perspectives on similarities and differences
between and within individuals and cultures
Psychological Anthropology
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Digital Ethnography
Parenting Styles
Early Childhood Development

04/2021 - present	PhD Student Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
03/2016 - 06/2018	Head of Counselling and School Life Department Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC) G.H.S. Batoke, Cameroon
10/2011 - 03/2012	Research Associate Centre for Health and Population Studies Oyomabang Yaoundé
01/2010 - 10/2011	Research/Projects Assistant German Cameroon Reproductive Health & AIDS Program/Rehabilitation of self support groups (PGCSS/REGA/RENATA) GTZ

2013 - 2015	Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling University Of Bamenda, Higher Teacher Training College (HTTC) Dissertation Title: Classroom overcrowding and student’s aggressive tendencies In some selected Secondary Schools of the Bamenda II Sub-Division, Cameroon
2009 - 2012/15	M.A. Medical Anthropology University Of Yaoundé I, Cameroon Thesis Title: New-born abandonment amongst the Nso’ People of the North West region: An anthropological contribution to the study of infant welfare in Cameroon
2006 - 2009	B.A. Anthropology University Of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Ethnographic study on the impact of the University of Yaoundé II on the inhabitants of Soa
Socio cultural perceptions of life in the suburbs “elobi” of the city of Yaoundé, the cases of Mini firm, Mokolo and Tsinga Elobi

The influence various teaching and parenting styles on student’s knowledge acquisition and behavioural patterns, at parent/teacher workshop, South West Regional Delegation of Secondary Education, Cameroon