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Department of Research and Innovation
The university’s flagship postgraduate scholarship
programmes include the AW Mellon Cross-faculty
Scholarships, the Harry Crossley Research Fellowships,
the UCT/Harry Crossley Green Matter Scholarship, the
D & E Potter Fellowship programme, the Carnegie
Corporation’s
Developing the Next Generation of
Academics
programme, the UCT/CSIR scholarships, and
the Woolworths Fellowships. These programmes provided
full-cost funding to carefully selected students, most of
whom are required, as a condition of award, to plan and
hold ex-departmental seminars based on their research.
International and refugee students received around
30% of all funding administered by the office in 2012.
Included are the Faculty International Students’ Bursaries
established to provide funds to international students to
cover the International Term Fee, the UCT Scholarships for
International and Refugee Students, and funds provided
to international and refugee students for mobility. The
generous grant from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, which
provided scholarships for refugee students, and for which
we remain very grateful, came to an end in 2012.
The UCT Postgraduate Centre
The Postgraduate Centre is a dedicated space for
master’s and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral
research fellows, in which they can meet, and use the
computer and Internet stations provided. A lounge
area provides space for users to read a variety of
journals, magazines, and newspapers, and the adjacent
TB Davie Seminar Room provides a space to hold
seminars. Through its activities and available facilities,
the Postgraduate Centre aims to promote the interests
of postgraduate students and postdoctoral research
fellows in synergy with faculty and departmental facilities
and services.
The UCT Research Associateships were established to provide prestigious awards
to reward the research excellence of master’s and doctoral students, as well as to
acknowledge the work of their supervisor(s). In 2012, 20 master’s and doctoral awards
were made.
Front row (from left):
Taryn van Niekerk, Natassja Koen, Monique Huyseman, Fatema
Esmail, Elsa Bussiere, Guy Regnard, Mario de Andrade, Alexis Bick, Gerard Leteba,
Anne Nzioke.
Middle row (from left):
Jonathan Strug, DVC Professor Danie Visser,
Thokozani Mhlambi, Prinessa Chellan, Kyle Blumberg, Mundia Kabinga, John Fay.
Back
row (from left):
Nicholas Tam, James Brown.
Absent from picture:
Suzaan Marais, Flora
Mpazanje, Olivier Olela Otafudu