Celebrating Research Excellence
CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE: The Virtual Research Festival and Research Awards celebrate research excellence.
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
CPUT is celebrating research excellence this week during the Virtual Research Festival and Research Awards.
All CPUT researchers were invited to showcase their research projects and societal uptake initiatives, and about 40 responded to the call.
These projects have been filmed by the Marketing and Communication Department and their presentations will be showcased online from October 27.
To watch the Virtual Research Festival videos, click here
The awards ceremony will also be recorded and streamed live on 27 October.
The Research Directorate’s Lara Smith said it will be a small event, observing strict Covid safety measures and will be held at the Granger Bay Campus.
The Research Directorate awards excellence in research activities under three categories: Research Output, Research Supervision and External Funding.
The Research Output awards are calculated from the total number of Department of Higher Education and Training units produced by each author. This includes all output types acknowledged by the DHET, namely, Journal Articles, Books & Chapters in Books, Conference Proceedings, and, more recently, Creative Outputs and Innovations.
The Research Supervision awards are given for numbers of postgraduate students supervised. They are calculated based on the total number of units earned by a supervisor. Supervisors earn one unit for supervision of a Master’s degree and three units for supervision of a doctorate.
The External Funding category used to be called Industry Funding but has been expanded to include grants given by universities and councils.
There are four awards in each category, namely, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. If there is a tie for any award, more than one award is given.
A Platinum Award earns a researcher R50 000; a Gold Award earns a researcher R40 000; a Silver Award earns a researcher R30 000 and a Bronze Award earns a researcher R20 000.
The event will be live from 10:45 to 12:00 and can be viewed by clicking on the research awards web banner on www.cput.ac.za or going to the CPUT YouTube channel.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
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