CPUT R ESEARCH AND T ECHNOLO g Y I NNOVATION (RTI)

New research chairs

research activities at CPUT are intensifying with the roll-out of five additional research chairs. These internally funded chairs will increase the number of research chairs at CPUT to nine. The university currently has four chairs funded by external partners. These include a Chair in Wholesale & retail Leadership, funded by the Wholesale & retail SeTa, and Chairs in Teacher education, Biomedical & Microbial Biotechnology, and Small Satellite Technology and applications for africa, funded by the Nrf

The roll-out of the new research chairs comes as the university prepares to launch its seven research focus areas, which form part of the research and Technology Innovation (rTI) Blueprint, a strategy document that sets CPUT’s research agenda. Dr Chris Nhlapo, who steers the rTI, said each focus area will be anchored by a chair responsible for directing research in the identified area.