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inclusive
honest collegial
research-informed
open
curious
excellent
open-minded
honest collegial
inclusive
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diverse
diverse
nurturing
excellent
open-minded
rigorous
open
curious
rigorous
nurturing
responsible respectful
research-informed
responsible respectful
creative accountable
creative accountable
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GOAL 3 – A RESEARCH-INTENSIVE UNIVERSITY
To advance UCT as a research-intensive university that
makes a distinctive contribution to knowledge both
locally and globally
OUR HIGH-LEVEL
OBJECTIVES ARE TO:
published research and
innovative products and
solutions, but also into
the curriculum
• build the capacity for staff
across all disciplines to
conduct research requiring
analysis of high volumes of
complex data
• enhance the environment
for soft-funded research
units
• provide our researcher
corps with tailored 21stcentury, technologically
enabled research support
• accelerate the pipeline
of future academics at
UCT and on the continent
through holistic professional
development opportunities
for our postgraduate
cohort as well as our young
appointees (soft-funded and
general operating budget),
with particular focus on
• recruit and retain scholars
who are leaders in their
fields and who will
contribute positively to
the research strategy of
the university
• provide seed funding for
new strategically selected
collaborations that include
a global south partner,
and three- or four-way
international partnerships,
to advance the quality,
impact and profile of our
research, and to access
global research resources
• challenge our academics
to develop new thinking
about the problems that
should most urgently be
addressed by us as an
African university, and feed
this thinking not only into
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