Appendix 1: Service level agreement 2021
Service Level Agreement Preamble: This Service Level Agreement is linked to the Memorandum of Agreement between the NRF and the University of the Witwatersrand
Activities related to the Current Stage: • Research outputs – Research outputs of students will be increased to 70+ journal article outputs in ISI-recognised journal, and reporting of research outputs will indicate the roles of authors, students and collaborators. • Networking – The 2021 CoE symposium on the 2020 Child Gauge will increase the CoE’s networks – The CoE is reaching out to Historically Disadvantaged Institutions to increase its grant and student support in these institutions. – Stronger working relationships established with key stakeholders’ communications’ people (DSI, NRF, Wits Comms, Wits Alumni) – Recruit 600 members signed up on the DOHaD Africa Chapter • Knowledge transfer – The CoE shall make available to the NRF, on a quarterly basis (March, June, September and December), current “nuggets” of information for publication on the CoE website. – While the current high level of knowledge transfer activities will be maintained, we intend to concentrate dissemination activities to 3-4 carefully selected topics per year. • Service delivery – CoE researchers maintain a high level of service delivery through membership of professional and disciplinary societies, editorial boards of journals, and policy committees in South Africa and abroad. • Capacity development – The CoE shall provide to the NRF a list of students that are being supported by the Centre by July of each year, using the student nomination platform on the NRF online submission system. Additional students can be appended to this list as and when they arrive. – Student capacity development will be carried out through the outlined training workshops – Attendance and feedback (rating) from each training workshop will be documented and presented
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