Centre for Postgraduate Studies (CPgS)

Prof Michael McPherson mcphersonm@cput.ac.za

The CPGS staff members are active in their own research while still playing a supporting role to postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

research interests of staff members include:

• L Bingo: Evaluation of practices in human resource management

• M McPherson: Condensed matter physics, solar thermal energy storage and fuel cell technology

• C Uys: Applied statistics and ICTs for development

Please see page 9 for an overview of CPGS’s activities during 2014.

Research Output

journal articles (DHET subsidised)

Moloi SJ & McPherson M

RBS measurements of metal-doped p-type silicon used for radiation-hard detectors Vacuum, 104:51-56, 2014

Rust AA & Uys CS

The importance of a university identity for students and alumni: The case of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

Journal of Social Sciences, 40(1):29-40, 2014

Sobuwa S, Hartzenberg HB, Geduld H & Uys CS

Predicting outcome in severe traumatic brain injury using a simple prognostic model SAMJ South African Medical Journal, 104(7):492-494, 2014

Conference paper

Mwinga M, Groenewald BBJ & McPherson M

Design, modelling and simulation of a fuel cell power conditioning system, Dalkilic A (ed): ENTECH’14 Energy Technnologies Conference-1, Istanbul, 22-24 December 2014