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Acknowledgements
The Research Review is one of the important projects of the Department of Research and Innovation, and a highlight in our calendar. Its production involves many people, from inception to conclusion and in the final dissemination of print and electronic copies.
I would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals and departments:
• First and foremost, the researchers who
are profiled in this Review, and those who prepared texts but whose work could not be profiled due to space constraints.
• The panel of expert editors who served as critical readers and gave generously of their time: Professors Don Cowan, Robin Crewe,
Christof Heyns, Michael Pepper, Corinne Sandwidth, Bernard Slippers and Brenda Wingfield; and Dr Cheryl Tosh who prepared the texts for the Health Sciences.
• Sunette Steynberg in the Department of Library Services for her expert assistance with data sourced from international indexes on UP’s research performance.
• Hugo Mouton and colleagues in the Department of Institutional Planning for their willingness to check the accuracy of data, and to generate new data where this was not readily accessible from the University’s Higher Education Data Analyzer system.
• Colleagues in the Department of Research and Innovation for their support, and for preparing the detail on UP’s research publications in 2018, and colleagues in the Department of Library Services for linking the research outputs to UPSpace.
• Melandré Frost for locating and cataloguing images received, and for her sterling administrative support to the project.
• Hanlie Griesel who planned, edited and coordinated the production of the Review.
• Ingrid Clarke and her team at Words’worth for the design and production of the Review.
Finally, I would like to extend my appreciation to Professor Stephanie Burton for her leadership role in the production of the 2018 Research Review. We look forward to receiving your feedback – be it in person or by email.
Dr Nthabiseng Taole
Director: Department of Research and Innovation
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Research overview
NEXT GENERATION RESEARCHERS
1 993 427 253
Master’s Doctoral Postdoctoral graduates graduates fellows
62+38+M 27+M73+ 65+M+35
58%
Black M and D graduates
33%
Postgraduate students as % of overall enrolment
65%
International postdoctoral fellows
RESEARCH CAPACITY
507
66+M+34 37M+63+ 13+M+87
67%
Staff with PhDs
37%
Academic staff are NRF-rated
13%
of all NRF-rated researchers in South Africa are at UP
UP Research Institutes and Centres
Industry and public sector Research Chairs
DST-NRF Centres of SARChI Excellence Chairs#
Total UP researchers with NRF-rating: A-rated 14; Y-rated 88
RESEARCH ENTITIES
72 33 19 4
# South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI)