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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.
TODAY: Invitation to a conversation with Professors Edvard Moser and Tobias Bonhoeffer on all things research
TODAY (23 March 2023) from 15:00 to 16:30 (SAST)
Join us for a not-to-be-missed discussion hosted by Dr Linda Mtwisha of the Research Office and Professor Graham Fieggen of the
Neuroscience Institute as they engage in an interactive conversation with world-renowned researchers, Professors Edvard Moser (a Nobel laureate from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
and Tobias Bonhoeffer (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence) on research topics sure to interest postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early-career researchers from across UCT.
Please RSVP here at your earliest convenience for catering purposes.
Call for abstracts: Southern African-Nordic Centre (SANORD) Conference 2023
Deadline for submission: 15 April 2023
UCT is a member of SANORD which comprises 55 members from Nordic and Southern African countries.
The topic for this year’s annual SANORD conference due to be held at INN University (Norway) is “The role of higher education in contributing to just and sustainable futures”.
Submission of abstracts for paper presentations, full symposiums, workshops and panel discussions are invited. Submissions should be from a range of perspectives and disciplines, including but not limited to education, health, environment,
agriculture, wildlife management, sustainability, social and environmental justice, digital technologies, crisis management and innovation – particularly in a North-South collaboration perspective.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2023. Abstracts should be limited to 250 words for paper presentations. Proposals for workshops, symposiums and roundtable sessions must be uploaded as a pdf and containing all necessary details.
Abstracts may be uploaded here.
eRA production system weekly downtime
Please note that the eRA production system will be unavailable every week between 16:00 on Wednesday evening and 08:30 on Thursday morning. Please ensure that you are completely logged out of the system
before this time.
This is to ensure that the system resources are freed up for maintenance activities.
Funding opportunities and funder announcements
Visit the current funding opportunities page on the Research Support Hub to view all open funding opportunities.
Call for applications: International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) early career collaboration grants
Deadline for applications: 1 June 2023
IARU, a network that comprises some of the world’s leading research-intensive universities (including UCT), has issued a call for applications for early-career collaboration grants.
This grants scheme has been created to increase opportunities for in-person global collaboration for early-career academics in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Researchers within 10 years of submitting their PhD (excluding postdocs), can apply for up
to 5 000 USD to help meet the costs of a short-term research stay at another IARU university. Visits can take place any time between 1 October 2023 and 1 October 2024.
Applicants are asked to submit letters of support from their home university as well as the intended host institution along with their application form, and to detail plans for how their visit will help to foster additional collaboration between the
two universities in the future.
Applications should be sent to the IARU secretariat by 1 June 2023. For full details, and the application form, please go here.
National Research Foundation (NRF) grants closing soon
The Research Office would like to remind academic staff that there are several NRF funding opportunities for 2023 which are closing in the next few months. These include a number of research grants as well as travel, training and conference grants.
Potential applicants are urged to peruse the framework documents of the open calls for eligibility criteria, research focus areas and other details.
Open calls can be accessed on the UCT current funding opportunities page or directly on the NRF
website. The NRF general application guide may be downloaded here.
Call for applications: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) short research stays
3 April 2023
The DAAD German academic exchange service supports university teachers, established academics and scientists for short-term research stays of up to three months in Germany.
University teachers and established academics and scientists who have usually completed a doctoral degree and work at a university or research institute in their home country can apply.
The programme provides funding for research stays at state or state-recognised institutions of higher education or non-university research institutes in Germany. A research stay can also take place at several host institutions.
Funding may only be claimed once within three years. Lecture tours or visits to congresses are not funded.
More information may be found
here.
Extended deadline for URC call for applications: short research visit/short research course
grant
Deadline: 3 April 2023
Please note that the deadline for submission of the URC call for applications for the short research visit/short research course grant has been extended to 3 April 2023.
More information about the call may be viewed here.
Reminder: Call for DHET creative research outputs submissions
The Research Office invites research staff to submit their 2020, 2021 and 2022 creative research outputs for submission to the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). This process results in the DHET awarding subsidies to UCT for
creative research outputs in the following subfields: fine and visual arts; music, theatre, performance and dance; design; film and television; and literary arts.
More information, including guidelines, processes and resources can be found here.
Reminder of call for applications: UCT Enabling Grant Seeker Excellence awards
The call for applications for the UCT Enabling Grant Seeker Excellence awards is open. In the context of an unpredictable national research funding environment, the purpose of this intervention is to encourage applications to external –
particularly international – funders as well as multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research collaborations. By allocating fractional funding based on grant submission without waiting for the successful outcome, seed funding is provided to enable
immediate progress. Please see the call document which contains a link to the application form.
Queries can be directed to Robyn Udemans.
Research capacity building
Below are events, workshops and webinars that offer capacity-building opportunities for the UCT research community.
Upcoming Emerging Researcher Programme (ERP)
events
The ERP is pleased to invite you to the following events:
- Webinar: Design thinking for researchers
In this webinar, Dr Nailah Conrad (lecturer in health innovation and a design thinking coach) will present an overview of how she has used
design thinking to shape her research as well as her teaching.
Date: 27 March 2023 from 13:00 to 14:00. Click here for more information and to
RSVP by 24 March 2023.
- Webinar: Open access publishing webinar
In this webinar, hosted by UCT Libraries, different publishing models and the benefits of publishing open access are investigated. Delegates will also discover how to identify authentic open access journals.
Date: 5 April 2023 from 13:00 to 14:00. Click here for more information and to
RSVP by 3 April 2023.
The Research Announcement is produced by the Research Office, University of Cape Town.
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