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Research Report UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG Research Report UNIVERSITY OF DISTINCTION The University of Johannesburg, one of the largest, multi-campus, residential universities in South Africa, seeks to achieve the highest distinction in scholarship and research within the higher education context. Born from the 2005 merger between the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University, the University of Johannesburg’s unique academic architecture reflects a comprehensive range of learning programmes, leading to a variety of qualifications, from vocational and traditional academic to professional and postgraduate, across the four campuses – Auckland Park Kingsway, Auckland Park Bunting Road, Doornfontein and Soweto. The campuses vary in size and each has its own character and culture, contributing to the Institution’s rich diversity. The University of Johannesburg has benefited from a large pool of researchers bringing together various fields of expertise and research focus areas. The University provides the ideal ground for interdisciplinary research and currently has more than 87 rated researchers. Five of these researchers are A-rated – all of whom are recognised as world leaders in their field. UJ is also home to nineteen research centres. The University fosters ideas that are rooted in African epistemology, but also addresses the needs of South African society and the African continent as it is committed to contribute to sustainable growth and development. We continue to build a culture of inclusion, embracing South Africa’s rich histories, cultures, languages, religions, genders, races and social and economic classes. Additionally, the University encourages a culture of service as part of the university student experience and it proudly pursues a four-language policy of English, IsiZulu, Afrikaans and Sesotho sa Leboa. Our staff and students come from over 50 countries in Africa and around the world. The University has also built links, partnerships and exchange agreements with leading African and other international institutions that further enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of our campuses. It is also the recipient of the highest levels of external financial support from donors and partners all over the world. This demonstrates the high esteem in which we are held internationally. In its mission, UJ commits itself to the following: • Quality education; • Leading, challenging, creating and exploring knowledge; • Supporting access to a wide spectrum of academic, vocational and technological teaching, learning and research; • Partnerships with our communities; • Contributing to national objectives regarding skills development and economic growth. The values guiding all University activities include: • Academic distinction; • Integrity and respect for diversity and human dignity; • Academic freedom and accountability; • Individuality and collective effort; • Innovation. Contents 04. Message from the Research Awards Vice-Chancellor 31. – Outstanding Researcher of the 06. Message from the Year: Professor Heidi Abrahamse Deputy Vice-Chancellor: 32. – Most Promising Emerging Research, Innovation Researcher of the Year: and Advancement Professor Alain Kabundi RESEARCH & INNOVATION Research Highlights 10. Report by the 33. – Dr Juanita van Wyk: Executive Director: Chemistry Research and Innovation 34. – Dr Natasha Sanabria: 11. Research Output Biochemistry 12. – Highlights of 2009 35. – The Sustainable Energy, Research Outputs Technology and Research (SeTAR) Centre 16. – Proportion of International to National Research Publications 37. – The Paper Research and Development Unit (PRDU) 16. Enrolled Postgraduate Students and the Phumani 16. Active Researchers Archival Paper Mill 16. Number of NRF-rated Researchers ACCREDITED RESEARCH 18. The South African Research OUTPUTS CLAIMED 2010 Chairs Initiative (SARChI) 40. Books 19. Research Output 2010 40. Chapters in Books 23. Research Centres 42. Conference Proceedings 26. Research Information 58. Journal Articles Management System (RIMS) 27. Postgraduate Centre 27. Postgraduate Funding 28. Next Generation Scholars Programme 28. Statkon 29. Sustainability 29. – Intellectual Property 29. – Environmental Stewardship 29. – Research Partnerships 30. – Stakeholder Engagement 30. – Human Resources and Skills Development 30. – Economic Sustainability UJ RESEARCH REPORT 2010 Message from the Vice-Chancellor Message FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR PROFESSOR IHRON RENSBURG Research is a core mission of the University of Johannesburg. In my inaugural address of September 2006, I challenged the University to draw upon its varied and often remarkable intellectual achievements, and to double research output within a decade. This would position it among the top eight institutions in the country. At the time this seemed visionary, even unrealistic. We were a new institution, formed from very different components. However, we are confident that we are reaching our goal. Why, though, do we put such emphasis on research? How have we achieved so much in such a relatively short time? How will we build on these years of achievement? It would have been easy for UJ, in its new role as a comprehensive institution, to focus on undergraduate and diploma teaching and to leave research unplanned for; an activity for those who cared to so involve themselves, to be undertaken after core teaching duties. We did not follow this route. We valued the expertise and scholarship that UJ had inherited, and believed strongly that we were obliged to enable the whole university community to match itself against the highest intellectual standards, as epitomised in research. Our undergraduates and diplomates, about one-third of them from families who had not previously been to university, deserved the stimulation of an institution where their teachers were actively engaged on the frontiers of their disciplines; and our academics deserved the excitement, prestige and rewards of grappling with new ideas and techniques. We believe this approach has been vindicated. Our strategy has been multifaceted. We took a calculated risk and assigned substantial resources to research; internal funding grew from R19 million in 2006 to about R60 million in 2010, with an additional R39 million being spent in supporting the University’s research centres over a three- year period. We emphasised our urban identity and the research opportunities of the great city of Johannesburg. We reorganised our research administration and policy framework, bringing in proven academic and administrative research managers. We appointed research professors, invested in postgraduate and research centres and in information-management systems, and demonstrated to faculty that our commitment to research was tangible, not rhetorical. The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research and Innovation, introduced in 2007, recognise and reward senior researchers, an increasing number of whom are NRF-rated. Early-stage researchers are incentivised and productive academics are encouraged, through prestige and through research finance, at whatever point they are in their careers. We have energetically promoted the acquisition of higher academic qualifications and involvement in research at all of the University’s campuses. As befits our environment, we are promoting technological research and innovation, and are engaged in ‘public scholarship’: vigorous research-informed debate on the issues of the day through lectures and dedicated centres. All of this and more is described in this Research Report. 4_ PROFESSOR IHRON RENSBURG VICE-CHANCELLOR As befits our environment, We are already close to achieving our research aims for the decade to 2015. Between 2005 and 2009, the accredited research output grew by over 43%, from 325 to 467 units with we are promoting 60% of accredited research outputs being published in international journals. We are thus technological research on course to achieve the 2015 institutional target of 600 units. The number of NRF-rated researchers has significantly increased from the low 60s to 87, and the University now has and innovation, and five A-rated researchers. More academic staff members are publishing, and it is pleasing are engaged in 'public that staff from the technological component of the University are actively participating, with four out of the ten top contributors to accredited research outputs in 2009 coming scholarship': vigorous, from this environment. research-informed debate Our target for 2020 is one of consolidation, with a further 20% growth in our research. This on the issues of the day should position UJ at the upper end of universities with middle-level research productivity, immediately below the top five institutions all of which, unlike UJ, have medical faculties through lectures and with high publication rates. We aim by 2020 to become the country’s leading innovator in dedicated centres. the field of scientifically-informed technology: we already have world-class capacity in areas such as radiography and mining engineering and we will move forward from these secure bridgeheads. We are determined not to be mesmerised by existing patterns of enrolment, and will work towards giving technology and technological research the best possible students, faculty and facilities. Finally, we will do all of this as an active participant in the international research community. We already have strong links with Europe, especially Holland and Germany, and we are building
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