Rhodes University Research Report 2017 : a year in review
- Gillitt, Tarryn, Macgregor, Jill, Mantolo, Thumeka, Roberts, Jaine
- Authors: Gillitt, Tarryn , Macgregor, Jill , Mantolo, Thumeka , Roberts, Jaine
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- Research
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72172 , vital:30012
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela, Vice-Chancellor: Many of the goals of our recently completed Institutional Development Plan have to do with retaining and improving our research and scholarly contribution as a university, and ensuring that we not only generate dependable knowledge, but that the knowledge that we create has a positive impact on the social and natural world around us. In summary, our goals are to 1. Maintain and strengthen our general formative degree offering and the research, teaching, and community engagement nexus which enables our students to access powerful knowledge; 2. Enable access to all academically-qualifying students and provide them with conditions which allow them to flourish as critical and engaged citizens; 3. Maintain and strengthen our unique institutional niche as a research-intensive university outside a major urban area; 4. Ensure financial and environmental sustainability practices through good governance, leadership and management; 5. Attract, nurture and retain staff of high-calibre and maintain an inclusive, welcoming, affirming and positive intellectual environment; 6. Provide relevant and appropriate academic infrastructure, equipment and facilities to support our academic project; and 7. Promote Rhodes University as an institution for the public good in local, provincial, national and international contexts. The plan calls upon all of us to re-imagine our University as one in which sustainability permeates every aspect of our academic endeavour, including an elevated sense of awareness and responsibility of our graduates for building sustainable communities. It calls upon us to ensure that we are simultaneously locally responsive and globally engaged. It calls upon us to work towards advancing social justice and do all that we can to restore the dignity and humanity of those who were treated as lesser beings by the previous dispensation. And it calls upon us to remind ourselves that our university does not exist in a vacuum. It exists within a social, cultural and economic milieu, and has an important role to play in lifting the standard of living of our local community.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Gillitt, Tarryn , Macgregor, Jill , Mantolo, Thumeka , Roberts, Jaine
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- Research
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72172 , vital:30012
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela, Vice-Chancellor: Many of the goals of our recently completed Institutional Development Plan have to do with retaining and improving our research and scholarly contribution as a university, and ensuring that we not only generate dependable knowledge, but that the knowledge that we create has a positive impact on the social and natural world around us. In summary, our goals are to 1. Maintain and strengthen our general formative degree offering and the research, teaching, and community engagement nexus which enables our students to access powerful knowledge; 2. Enable access to all academically-qualifying students and provide them with conditions which allow them to flourish as critical and engaged citizens; 3. Maintain and strengthen our unique institutional niche as a research-intensive university outside a major urban area; 4. Ensure financial and environmental sustainability practices through good governance, leadership and management; 5. Attract, nurture and retain staff of high-calibre and maintain an inclusive, welcoming, affirming and positive intellectual environment; 6. Provide relevant and appropriate academic infrastructure, equipment and facilities to support our academic project; and 7. Promote Rhodes University as an institution for the public good in local, provincial, national and international contexts. The plan calls upon all of us to re-imagine our University as one in which sustainability permeates every aspect of our academic endeavour, including an elevated sense of awareness and responsibility of our graduates for building sustainable communities. It calls upon us to ensure that we are simultaneously locally responsive and globally engaged. It calls upon us to work towards advancing social justice and do all that we can to restore the dignity and humanity of those who were treated as lesser beings by the previous dispensation. And it calls upon us to remind ourselves that our university does not exist in a vacuum. It exists within a social, cultural and economic milieu, and has an important role to play in lifting the standard of living of our local community.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Rhodes University Research Report 2016
- Rhodes University, Gillitt, Tarryn, Mantolo, Thumeka, Macgregor, Jill, Roberts, Jaine
- Authors: Rhodes University , Gillitt, Tarryn , Mantolo, Thumeka , Macgregor, Jill , Roberts, Jaine
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58288 , vital:27197
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: The results of the 2016 academic year were celebrated during a bumper graduation weekend in April 2017, in which a record 2 464 graduates were capped at 6 graduation ceremonies, 46% of whom were Postgraduates, 59% were women, and 21% were international students. A record number of 88 PhD degrees were awarded (up from 67 of 2016). We celebrated a new record of 29 PhD degrees for the Faculty of Humanities, up from the previous record of 19 achieved last year. The Faculty of Science produced 38 PhD graduates, the Faculty of Commerce 6, the Faculty of Education 13, and the Faculty of Pharmacy 2. All Faculties have done exceedingly well. Our warm congratulations go to all our Faculty Deans, Heads of Department and the academic and support staff who made this possible. , A publication of the Rhodes University Research Office, compiled and edited by: Tarryn Gillitt, Thumeka Mantolo, Jill Macgregor and Jaine Roberts.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Rhodes University , Gillitt, Tarryn , Mantolo, Thumeka , Macgregor, Jill , Roberts, Jaine
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58288 , vital:27197
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: The results of the 2016 academic year were celebrated during a bumper graduation weekend in April 2017, in which a record 2 464 graduates were capped at 6 graduation ceremonies, 46% of whom were Postgraduates, 59% were women, and 21% were international students. A record number of 88 PhD degrees were awarded (up from 67 of 2016). We celebrated a new record of 29 PhD degrees for the Faculty of Humanities, up from the previous record of 19 achieved last year. The Faculty of Science produced 38 PhD graduates, the Faculty of Commerce 6, the Faculty of Education 13, and the Faculty of Pharmacy 2. All Faculties have done exceedingly well. Our warm congratulations go to all our Faculty Deans, Heads of Department and the academic and support staff who made this possible. , A publication of the Rhodes University Research Office, compiled and edited by: Tarryn Gillitt, Thumeka Mantolo, Jill Macgregor and Jaine Roberts.
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- Date Issued: 2016
Rhodes University Research Report 2014
- Rhodes University, Roberts, Jaine, Gillitt, Tarryn, Mantolo, Thumeka, Macgregor, Jill, Dore, Sally
- Authors: Rhodes University , Roberts, Jaine , Gillitt, Tarryn , Mantolo, Thumeka , Macgregor, Jill , Dore, Sally
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59309 , vital:27547
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: In the year under review, individual academics continued to receive widespread recognition for their work. Particularly noteworthy were the accolades that Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong continued to attract. In 2014 she was chosen as one of South Africa’s 21 Icons. Professor Nyokong was also appointed by United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon to the High-Level Panel on Technology Bank For Least Developed Countries. Money cannot buy the kind of positive profile that Professor Nyokong brings to Rhodes. Professor Janice Limson was awarded the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Science Communication. This brought to 11 the number of SARChI Chairs awarded to Rhodes University. Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka was appointed as the inaugural Director of the new Postgraduate Studies Centre, to lead and manage the provision of additional support for enhancing the quality, quantity, and equity of our Postgraduate population. , A publication of the Rhodes University Research Office, compiled and edited by Jaine Roberts, Tarryn Gillitt, Thumeka Mantolo, Patricia Jacob and Jill Macgregor. Design and Layout: Sally Dore
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- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Rhodes University , Roberts, Jaine , Gillitt, Tarryn , Mantolo, Thumeka , Macgregor, Jill , Dore, Sally
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59309 , vital:27547
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: In the year under review, individual academics continued to receive widespread recognition for their work. Particularly noteworthy were the accolades that Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong continued to attract. In 2014 she was chosen as one of South Africa’s 21 Icons. Professor Nyokong was also appointed by United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon to the High-Level Panel on Technology Bank For Least Developed Countries. Money cannot buy the kind of positive profile that Professor Nyokong brings to Rhodes. Professor Janice Limson was awarded the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Science Communication. This brought to 11 the number of SARChI Chairs awarded to Rhodes University. Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka was appointed as the inaugural Director of the new Postgraduate Studies Centre, to lead and manage the provision of additional support for enhancing the quality, quantity, and equity of our Postgraduate population. , A publication of the Rhodes University Research Office, compiled and edited by Jaine Roberts, Tarryn Gillitt, Thumeka Mantolo, Patricia Jacob and Jill Macgregor. Design and Layout: Sally Dore
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- Date Issued: 2014
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