NRF-rated researchers celebrated
RECOGNITION: CPUT recently acknowledged its NRF-rated researchers and postdoctoral fellows.
Wednesday, 01 October 2025
CPUT’s NRF-rated researchers were acknowledged during a recent ceremony, held at the Bellville Campus.
The event also recognised the institution’s postdoctoral fellows.
NRF ratings are allocated based on a researcher’s recent research outputs and impact as perceived by international peer reviewers.
The ratings fall within the following categories:
- A – Leading international researchers
- B – Internationally acclaimed researchers
- C – Established researchers
- P – Prestigious Awards
- Y – Promising young researchers
Vice-Chancellor Prof Chris Nhlapo, who served as the institution’s first Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Technology Innovation and Partnerships, said the institution has come a long way since 2006 when CPUT’s NRF-rated researchers could be counted on one hand.
“Some people joined us recently and they will think that we have always had over 70 rated researchers. We’ve come from far and it was incredibly challenging.”
He said there was no room for complacency and CPUT would continue to strive to improve its ratings.
Prof Marshall Sheldon, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Technology Innovation and Partnerships, also delivered a message of support.
“As an NRF-rated researcher myself, I am deeply appreciative and acknowledge the work that you've done so far,” she said.
She said the researchers had contributed to shaping the institution’s reputation.
“Your ratings for me are not just metrics. It’s symbols of years and sometimes decades of late nights, early nights, whole nights, years of peer reviews, revisions, feedback, and sometimes very devastating feedback and rejections. But you keep going. It's years of revision, revision, revision leading to what we can today call our flagship projects and breakthroughs that we’ve achieved as an institution.”
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
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