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Dear colleagues
The purpose of this announcement is to keep members of the UCT research community informed about news and funding opportunities in the research space. All new funding opportunities can also be found on the current funding opportunities page of the Research Support Hub.
In this newsletter:
Noticeboard
Funding opportunities and funder announcements
Research capacity building
Noticeboard
On the Research Announcement noticeboard, we share news and items of interest from the UCT Research Office.
UCT Knowledge Co-op topics for socially responsive research
The UCT Knowledge Co-op engages community groups around the research they consider useful for their work. These topics are available
for honours or master's dissertations and for academics' personal research.
The Co-op facilitates discussions to ensure the resulting proposal fits the requirements of both the community partner and UCT. Dissertations follow the usual departmental timeframe and process with support from the Co-op throughout.
The Co-op's website has just been updated to show more than 100 topics to choose from. Discipline-specific lists and more information
are available on request.
Funding opportunities
Visit the current funding opportunities page on the Research Support Hub to view all open funding opportunities.
Call for applications: Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Initiative
Application deadline: 15 February 2022
Scholars from South African universities are invited to apply to participate in the Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources (OER) Champions Initiative.
This is an initiative of the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) through the ESCALATOR Digital Champions Initiative and the NWU UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources.
The programme aims to stimulate activism and research around the use and/or creation of OER for the digital humanities (DH) at universities in South Africa. This 12-month programme involves the following:
- A grant of R20 000 for individuals or groups working on a project to develop OERs that will support the growth of DH capacity and related skills in South Africa (adaptation, text editing, and/or research expenses)
- Opportunities to attend workshops on DH OERs, open licensing, and open pedagogy
- Discussion sessions to relate general OER sessions to the DH context
- Support to create or adapt open educational resources such as open textbooks, online tutorials, wikibooks, or combinations of open learning objects
- Support and workshops on how to research DH OERs and write up the research
- Commitment of approximately 4 – 10 hours per month depending on the project’s scope.
This is an ideal opportunity for researchers, lecturers, and postgraduate students interested in including new online resources in their teaching or adapting their resources to their students' specific contexts to receive support and funding for
creating or adapting open learning content and researching the process.
Two forthcoming open Q&A sessions will answer questions related to the programme, schedule, content, and application process. You can also join these sessions to discuss your project idea:
- 25 January 2022 @ 9:00 – 10:00 am SAST
- 8 February 2022 @ 16:00 – 17:00 pm SAST
Sign up for these Q&A sessions by completing this form. For more information about this initiative and to apply, please click here.
Call for applications: Research equipment grant
Application deadline: 4 March 2022 & 27 May 2022
The University Equipment Committee’s (UEC) annual call for research equipment grant applications is open. The UEC considers applications for strategic equipment
items that are not covered in the conventional way by faculty equipment committees (FEC).
Applications must be submitted to the UEC via FEC Chairs by the following deadlines:
- Category 2 (items over R1.5million) - 4 March 2022 (The NRF has confirmed that the National Equipment Programme call will open this year.)
- Category 1 (items under R1.5million) - 27 May 2022
Please see here for further details including the eligibility criteria, a link to the R&I18
application form, the submission requirements, process timelines and faculty contact persons.
Reminder: Poliomyelitis Research Foundation (PRF) research grants and major impact projects
UCT intention-to-submit deadline: 28 January 2022
Complete and upload the eRA PRF grant application package: 14 February 2022
Final external funder deadline: 28 February 2022
The Poliomyelitis Research Foundation (PRF) research grants, research grant renewals and major impact projects (MIP) funding opportunities are available with an upcoming submission deadline of 28 February
2022.
Please visit the PRF website for guidance. Find more details about the call and the new internal submission process for the PRF on the electronic Research Administration (eRA) system here.
You can also access the intention-to-submit form here.
For queries, Faculty of Health Sciences staff are to contact [email protected], while those from other faculties can contact [email protected].
Reminder: Future Professors Programme | Fellowship in Academic Excellence and Leadership
Application deadline: 11 February 2022
The Future Professors Programme (FPP) is a national collaborative programme aimed at developing qualities of academic excellence and leadership among a select pool of academic staff, with an emphasis on black and women scholars.
This call, the third and final for phase 1 of this programme, seeks to identify a group of the country’s most talented young academics to benefit from a structured and intense programme aimed at accelerating their readiness for the
professoriate.
Academics preferably – but not exclusively – in the lecturer and senior lecturer categories in South African public universities may be nominated by their universities. Applicants should hold a doctorate and have already presented clear indications
in their scholarly work of advancement towards the senior ranks of the academy. An NRF rating or similar external markers of scholarly standing are a strong recommendation.
The programme is not a developmental but a preparatory programme. Each university may nominate a maximum of five candidates. From these nominations, a cohort will be selected for the programme which will commence in January 2023.
For details on the application process, contact Mrs Fazeela Felton.
Research capacity building
Below we share events, workshops and webinars that offer capacity-building opportunities for the UCT research community.
Digital Scholar Series – Data management training sessions for first semester
Wednesdays at 13:00
 The Digital Library Services (DLS) department of UCT Libraries will be continuing the Digital Scholar Series in the first semester
of 2022. Presenters from DLS will showcase some of the practises and tools available to enhance your research skills, with an ongoing focus on managing your research data efficiently.
These sessions are open to all postgraduate researchers and staff working within any field of study at UCT. The primary focus in the first half of the year will be on topics covering the beginning stages of the research process, such as data
management plans (DMPs) and best practises for efficiently capturing and managing research data.
All sessions will take place on Wednesdays and start at 13:00. The sessions will be hosted on MS Teams and will last 45 minutes, with an extra 15 minutes for questions or discussion.
To see the full list of topics and detailed schedule please click here.
The Research Announcement is produced by the Research Office, University of Cape Town.
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