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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 2024 is on:

 

research development

Research Development

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Management of research funds

Management of research funds

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Research Ethics and Integrity

Research Ethics and Integrity

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Outputs

Management of Research Outputs Information

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Quality

Quality Improvement of Research

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Excellence

Research Excellence and Visibility

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Contribution to NWU Annual Performance Plan 2024

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