Research Chairs

Economic and Management Sciences

• World Trade Organisation Chair (WTO)

Education

• UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and OER (Open Educational Resources)
• ETDP SETA ECD CHAIR

Engineering

• DSI/NRF - Research Chair in Coal Research (SARChI)
• DSTI/NRF - Research Chair in Deep Learning (SARChI)
• EPEP (Eskom Power Engineering Programme)  

Health Sciences

• DSI/NRF- Albertina Sisulu Research Chair in Nursing Science (SARChI)
• SARChi: Mycotoxins and human health: Unravelling cancer and metabolic disease   

Law

• DSI/NRF - Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability (SARChI)

Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• SARChi - Indegenous Knowledge-Driven medicinal Plants utilisation and Conservation Strategies for Human, Animal and Crop Health (IK-Medplants4HAC)
• SARChi - Phytomicrobiome and circular agriculture
• SARChi - Mycotoxins and human health: Unravelling cancer and metabolic disease

Research Centres of Excellence

Engineering

• Centre of Excellence in Carbon-Based Fuels

Health Sciences

• Centre of Excellence for Nutrition (CEN)
• Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (PharMaCen) 
• Centre of Excellence for Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART)

Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• Centre for Space Research (CSR)

Research Units

Economic and Management Sciences

• WorkWell Research Unit
• Unit for Tourism Research in Economics, Environs and Society (TREES) 

Education

• Education and Human Rights in Diversity (Edu-HRight)
• Self-Directed Learning (SDL)

Engineering

• Unit for Energy and Technology Systems (UETS)

Health Sciences

• Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR)

Humanities

• Unit for Optimal Expression of Individual, Social and Institutional Potential (OPTENTIA)
• Language and Literature IN Complex Settings (LINCS)

Law

• Law, Justice and Sustainability

Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management (UESM)
• Unit for Data Science and Computing (UDSC)          

Theology

• Unit for Reformational Theology and the Development of the South African Society

Research Focus Areas

Economic and Management Sciences

• Trade and Development (TRADE)
• Technology-Enhanced Learning and Innovative Education and Training, South Africa (TELIT-SA)

Education

• Community-Based Educational Research (COMBER)

Health Sciences

• Community Psychosocial Research (Compres)
• Medicine Usage in South Afric (MUSA)
• Occupational Hygiene and Health Research Initiative (OHHRI)
• Physical Activity, Sport and Recreation (PhASRec)
• Quality in Nursing and Midwifery (NuMiQ)
• Lifestyle Diseases

Humanities

• Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA)
• Afrocentric Governance of Public Affairs (AGoPA)
• Research and Creative Outputs in Visual Arts and Music (ViAMUS)
• Population and Health
• Social Transformation

Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• Material Science Innovation an Modelling (MaSIM)
• Pure and Applied Analytics (PAA)
• Chemical Resource Beneficiation (CRB)
• Biomedical and Molecular Metabolism Research (BioMMet)

Theology

• Ancient Texts: Text, Context and Reception

Research Niche Areas

Economic and Management Sciences

• Applied Research in Management Cybernetics

Engineering

• Multilingual Speech Technologies (MuST)

Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• Food Security and Safety (FSS)  

Hosted Research Entities (Centre, Platform, Institute)

Engineering

• DSI/HySA Infrastructure Centre of Competence in hydrogen production, storage, reticulation and safety codes and standards

Health Sciences

• DSI/NWU Preclinical Drug Development Platform (PCDDP)
• SAMRC/NWU Extra Mural Research Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

Humanities

• Centre for Text Technolog (CTexT)
• South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)

Natural and Agricultural Sciences

• DSI/NRF Centre in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (CIKS)
• Centre for Human Metabolomics

Commercial Research Entities

Health Sciences

• Centre for Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Services