NRF Congratulates CPUT
COMMON GOAL: NRF’s Dr Gansen Pillay with CPUT’s Prof Judy Peter and DVC Dr David Phaho
Wednesday, 08 December 2021
CPUT has one of the most transformed researcher cohorts in the country and we can do even more to boost those numbers.
This was the message from a recent meeting between CPUT Research, Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Deputy Vice-Chancellor Dr David Phaho and the National Research Foundation’s Deputy CEO Dr Gansen Pillay. The meeting was also attended by Prof Judy Peter in her capacity as Director: Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at CPUT while The NRF CEO, Prof Fulufhelo Nelwamondo joined the meeting virtually.
Pillay visited CPUT to congratulate the institution for its recent win at the 2021 NRF awards, where Research Fellow Prof Moses Basitere won for exceptional performance for an emerging researcher.
The stakeholders discussed strengthening NRF and academia partnerships at CPUT and Pillay encouraged the university’s academics to take advantage of a range of excellent funding opportunities.
“We want to be a listening organization. CPUT has a very transformed research community here, the beauty of CPUT is that you are graduating work-ready graduates and as a university of technology you are closer to the interface for societal benefit,” Pillay said.
Phaho said the university was well placed to tap into the millions of rands of funding available at the NRF and would be implementing a few strategies to do this.
“Active grant management is one way of doing this and we will engage with the office of DVC: Teaching and Learning as well as Faculty Deans to ensure that our students, researchers and scholars derive maximum benefit from the opportunities offered by the NRF,” he says.
Written by Lauren Kansley
Email: kansleyl@cput.ac.za
Liaises with the media and writes press releases about interesting developments at CPUT.
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