Research Training & Capacity Development

The unit focuses on assisting academics with developing and strengthening scholarly academic identities by attempting to answer the question of who individuals want to be as academics.

The mandate is executed by providing an enabling environment, which will contribute to the completion of degrees, publication of research, establishment of research niches, finding funding and establishing networks for research and funding purposes.

The unit offers an open door, advice, connections, workshops, writing retreats, the fostering of networks across disciplines and the sharing of experiences of academics at various levels across the institution.

The first network that developed organically from the unit’s work is the CPUT Academic Research Group (CARG) and the unit is administratively supporting it.

The unit also supports the visibility of research at CPUT by being responsible for the updating of the CPUT researcher database and championing the nomination of researchers for research awards and prizes.