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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Towards Carnegie3: Strategies to Overcome Poverty and
Inequality
on behalf of the National Planning Commission.
The key purpose of the conference was to take stock of
existing knowledge and debates and to stimulate cross-
pollination of ideas across institutional, thematic, and
geographic barriers.
One of the challenges in realising our ambitions in the
research arena is to be optimally placed to collaborate
internationally and advance global knowledge, while still
solving local problems. This includes developing new
research partnerships or strengthening existing ones
with partners in Africa, and elsewhere in the global
South. Increasingly, research that makes a difference in
the world is being conducted by international consortia
and collaborations. In our endeavours to facilitate and
maintain research collaboration with international partners,
UCT remained an active member in 2012 of the Worldwide
Universities Network, which comprises 19 research-
intensive universities spanning six continents.
Contributing to the achievements reflected in this report are
our postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers. In
2012, more than 6 000 students were registered for honours,
master’s, and doctoral degrees at UCT. At the same time,
there were 282 registered postdoctoral researchers at the
university, of whom more than half were from outside South
Africa. Our responsibility to educate the future generation
of leaders extends to the African continent. Through a
generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation for the
Next Generation of Academics
project, a cohort of trainee
academics are being trained in the fields of infectious
diseases, civil engineering, and economics. This project
has enabled us to work closely with the universities of
Ghana, Makerere and Witwatersrand.
We are grateful to all our donors, partners and
research collaborators for supporting our vision for
the development of research at UCT, enabling greater
impact and greater engagement. It is thanks to these
individuals and organisations, and indeed the work of
the entire university community, that we are able to
continue to deliver world-class research that advances
the university and this continent. It is our intention to
continue to engage strategically with the changing
higher-education landscape in South Africa and to
build research partnerships across Africa that will help
shape our future.
Professor Kelly Chibale (centre), pictured with Dr Tim Wells of the Medicines for Malaria
Venture and Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor. Professor Chibale
speaks about the compound MMV390048 that he and international collaborators hope
will lead to the development of a single-dose treatment for malaria.