CUT Annual Report 2011

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Research and Development Plan
Objective Activity Progress
• Pre-doctoral training
• Doctoral training
Scholarly engagement
with the research
process and research
cycle
• Post-doctoral training
• Programme on postgraduate supervision
• Programme on scientific writing
• Programme on tech transfer and innovation
• Annual faculty research seminars
• Colloquiums and discussion groups
Five research workshops conducted:
The Research Process (2 x);
Research in MIT Perspective, Formative
Postgraduate Assessment, the Postgraduate
Research Curriculum.
Capacity growth of
research projects
• Multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research
• Joint ventures with national and international
universities, research bodies and research
councils
• Joint ventures with government/ business/
industry
Collaboration with SU, UCT, CPUT, UFS, TUT,
NMMU. Projects on food security and safety,
machine vision, research education and medical
product development.
CUT partners with UFS in Medical Ethical
Committee. Preliminary discussions with UFS on
collaboration in Animal Ethics Committee.
Collaborations with international universities,
namely Aalen, Ulm and Charité (Germany),
Loughborough and Wales (UK), IUPUI (USA), Kigali
Institute of Science and Technology (Rwanda)
and Chinhoyi University of Applied Science
(Zimbabwe), on projects relating to food safety
and security, machine vision, management,
research education and medical product
development.
Strengthening of
research capacity
• Student retention and throughput
• Publications
• Conference attendance
• Patents
• Rated researchers
• Research funding
During 2011, 187 Masters and 69 Doctorate
degree students were registered with CUT.
57 articles were published.
51 national and 58 international grants were
awarded.
Currently CUT has seven NRF-rated researchers.
Academic staff with M degrees: 88. Academic
staff with D degrees: 58.
More than R 7.4 m in external research funding
for 2011.