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RTIP Portfolios
Directorate Research Development (DRD)
Function
The mandate of the Directorate Research Development is to, in conjunction with all Divisions, Faculties, Institutes, Entities, and across the institution and CPUT communities, to develop, implement, manage, support, administer, and enhance the research management, development and administration in the direction to improve the services and support of the scholarly.
The Directorate Research Development is organised in the following Units:
Research Management
Research Grants Management
Research Training & Capacity Development
Research Integrity
Research Communication and Marketing
Special Projects
Research Chairs
Postdoctoral Fellowships
NRF Ratings
Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships (SIP)
The Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships is the custodian of all strategic initiatives, partnerships (local and international) and engagements at CPUT, based on the RTIP portfolio but also linked to the learning and teaching and community engagement portfolios. The Directorate is fully committed to expanding national and international collaborations, connections to scientific and transformative networks, and opportunities for staff and student mobility in alignment with CPUT's Vision 2030. In addition, the SIP Directorate focuses on the uptake of research through technology and innovation using the CPUT research strategy (the RTIP Blueprint 3.0) as a guiding framework.
Director
Prof Dina Burger
Acting: Prof Dina Burger
Center for Postgraduate Students (CPGS
There are two portfolios currently residing within the Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, namely:
International Relations Portfolio responsible for driving the process of comprehensive internationalisation aligned to CPUT's Vision 2030 and providing support to the Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships Directorate in fulfilling its core mandate to internationalise the campus.
Functions: Internationalisation, International networks and capacity development, International collaborations and partnerships, Study abroad, Calls and Opportunities
Research Uptake portfolio supports the Director's Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships that primarily uphold, maintain, and support the Research, Technology, and Innovation strategy and is supported by CPUT's Vision 2030. The portfolio addresses internal (researchers and institutional) and external (funders and beneficiaries) stakeholder requirements and to disseminate an uptake strategy when planning, carrying out and evaluating the research.
The Centre facilitates postgraduate studies by connecting students with faculties, managing bursaries, and providing research support. We help with project planning, statistical analysis and software usage. Our seminars and workshops aid students and supervisors in research methods and statistics. Additionally, we monitor student progress and promote research expertise and bursaries to attract students locally and internationally. We aim to support academic excellence, elevate the university’s postgraduate profile and foster technology innovation through research.
The Centre’s responsibilities encompass:
Technology Transfer and Industrial Linkages (TTO)
Mentoring and guiding postgraduate students and supervisors
Enhancing research skills for postgraduate students
Offering advice and support for student challenges
Offering orientation programmes for new postgraduate students
Monitoring and ensuring quality postgraduate progress
Cultivating strong faculty relationships to support training initiatives
Establishing policy guidelines for effective research dissemination
The aim of the TTO is to facilitate, protect and enhance the transfer of IP from CPUT to the business sector to enhance commercialization for the upliftment of the communities we serve while at the same time generating royalty income for the university and the applicant.
The TTO is established to counsel and support the research units, centres and institutes and faculties of the University and to foster new thinking by helping researchers to go beyond publication and into commercialization through technology innovation.
Other functions of the TTO are to help foster research partnerships with the business sector when IP is likely to be created through license agreements and to assist with the establishment of business units and spin-off companies.
- Strategic planning
- Operational planning
- Human Capital management
- Research
- Library Management
- Quality management
- Risk Management
- Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) management
- Policy development
Faculty Support
These services are providing support to students and staff to enhance learning, teaching and research:
- Seven library branches across the seven CPUT campuses
- Information Literacy training
- Advanced Information Literacy training
- Collection Development
- Programme review reports
- Information and clients service support
- Research support
- Faculty Librarians and support staff for consultations and training
- Online AskUs service with a dedicated team in real time to answer any library related questions.
Scholarly Communication & Digitization
These services forms part of the research-life cycle where the library supports researchers within the various stages of the research project:
- Research Data Management
- Open Access publishing
- Metrics for research impact
- Special Collections and digitization
- Specialised Librarians and support staff for consultations and training
- Repositories and tools administration and maintenance
- Institutional Repository
- Electronic Thesis and Dissertation repository
eSango, research data repository
- Data Management Plan tool
- Metrics Tool
- Special collections Repository
- Open Journal System
Branch Management
Seven library branches across the seven CPUT campuses are managed and staffed to provide various library spaces and services needed:
- Library branch spaces
- Study spaces
- Seminar rooms
- Group work spaces
- Learning Commons labs at some branches
- Training rooms at some branches
- Postgraduate student spaces
- 24h spaces at some branches
- Conference facilities
- After-hours services (evening, Saturdays and during exam times limited time on Sundays)
Information service points
Technical Services
This department is responsible for controlling spending on physical and electronic resources, receipt, processing and general discovery of new resources.
- Collection Development (Physical and Digital collections)
- Acquisitions
- Cataloguing
- Processing
- eResources subscriptions management
- Trial access
- Metadata creation
- Library Finance office
- Inter-Library Loans
Social media, Marketing & Community Engagement
- Various communication strategies to communicate with our users via social media platforms, library website, Newsflash, posters, QR codes.
- Marketing & communityengagement activities and events.
Information Technology
This department is responsible for supporting the multi-system environment the library needs to provide access to information resources as well as the necessary technology within all library spaces.
- Library website
- Learning Commons labs
- Systems support
- Hardware and software support for library staff and spaces
- Specialised software for postgraduate students
- Hosted services for various repositories, platforms and tools:
- Library Management System (Discovery tool) –ALMA/PRIMO
- Institutional Repository
- Electronic, Thesis & Dissertation Repository eSango, research data repository
- Special Collections Repository
- Data Management Plan tool
- Metrics tool
- Open Journal System (OJS)
- LibGuides, LibCal, LibChat platforms