r esearch Directorate

Dr Tembeka Mpako-Ntusi mpako-ntusit@cput.ac.za

Exchange Fellow visits University of North Carolina

An exchange programme between SARIMA and the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) in the USA, allowed the Research Directorate’s Research Finance Coordinator to spend a month at an American university to learn more about research management. Ms Amelia Nomfundo Rorwana, who has worked for CPUT for 17 years, visited the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in June 2014. She says she chose UNC as her host institution because of its well-established research culture. As a research-intensive university its research enterprise is bigger than that of CPUT, where a research culture is still in the developing phase.

According to Ms Rorwana, her visit resulted in a fruitful exchange of information, especially since there are similarities in the way the two universities approach sponsored research, with both following the centralisation model. She felt inspired by the fact that the people at UNC take pride in what they do and apply the core values of UNC on a daily basis. She is thankful to the staff and management at UNC for giving her their time and sharing their expertise with her.

RESEARCH OUTPUT

Conference papers

Mpako-Ntusi T

CPUT implementation of the research output module, InfoEd User Group Conference, Orlando, FL, 18-22 May 2014

Mpako-Ntusi T

Strengthening research management: The NCURA/SARIMA Research Management Exchange Programme: Experiences of a host institution, Annual SARIMA Conference, Botswana, 6-10 July 2014 j ournal articles (not DHET subsidised)

Miner JT & Mpako-Ntusi T

Partnering across continents and cultures to propel research NCURA Magazine, XLVI(6):9-11, 2014