Focus and Responsibilities
The general strategy statement of the department is to:
- Create an enabling environment for quality research
- Excel in providing support to develop research capacity
- Streamline and standardise research support processes to improve the quality of research
- Support towards enhancing excellence and visibility of researchers and research programmes
Our focus for 2025 is on:
Management of Research Outputs Information
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Management of Research funds
APP Goal 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Risk 3, 8, 2, 28
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Pre-Award Management
- Management of NRF Evaluation and Rating (Pre‐Award process only)
- Management of NRF, MRC & other research grant applications
- Communication of Research Funding opportunities to researchers
- Management of South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) (Pre‐Award process only)
- Briefing and Training Sessions for researchers
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Yolanda Nxumalo
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0182852081
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- Management of NRF postgraduate funding applications (Pre‐Award process only)
- Communication of Research Funding opportunities to students
- Briefing and Training Sessions for students
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Yolanda Nxumalo |
0182852081 |
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Post-Award Management
Verifications, Compliance monitoring, Funds transfers, Disbursements, Claims processing and submission to funders, Recovery of unspent funds, Financial reporting, Audits for:
- Grant holder awards
- Grant holder linked bursaries
- Block Grants
- Freestanding Travel Grants and Bursaries (NRF & SKA)
- Freestanding Post Doc Research Grants and Bursaries
- SKA Student Travel Grants and Bursaries
- External Auditing
- THUTHUKA payments
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- NWU Postdoc funding
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Johann Du Plessis |
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Compilation, signing off and submission of grant documents (e.g. conditions of grants); Processing and submission of progress reports for:
- Grant holder awards
- Grant holder linked bursaries
- Block Grants
- Freestanding Travel Grants and Bursaries (NRF & SKA)
- Freestanding Post Doc Research Grants and Bursaries
- SKA Student Travel Grants and Bursaries
- External Auditing
- THUTHUKA
Payments for NWU Postdocs
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Heide Goedhals
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0182994855
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Quality Improvement of Research
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Focus (Relevant APP Goal)
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Quality Improvement
of Research
APP Goal 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Risk 17, 8, 28
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- Support for implementation of the Doctoral Review Improvement Plan
- Internal evaluation of Research Entities
- External evaluation of Research Entities
- Research Support Departmental Evaluations
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Zama Kose
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0169103444
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Contribution to NWU Annual Performance Plan 2025
Goal 2: Strengthen research and innovation with a strategic focus on impactful globalisation
- Improve research productivity through research excellence and global leadership
- Implementation of the higher degree improvement plan to ensure a better throughput rate of master and doctoral students
- Create and maintain a conducive, sustainable and supportive environment to advance research excellence
Goal 3: Integrate and align community engagement with teaching‐learning and research to develop a culture of active citizenship
- Promote the Scholarship of Engagement: Community Engagement, Engaged TL and Engaged research
We plan to contribute towards abatement of the following risks:
- Risk 3 – PG students
- Risk 43 – Digital business strategy;
- Risk 28 – Business processes;
- Risk 8 – Internationalisation
- Risk 2 – Student debt
- Risk 17: Academic integrity
