Green light for 39 projects

The Vice-Chancellor's Strategic Fund has become, in quick time, one of the most sought-after sources of research funding at UCT. Recently, 39 projects got the nod for funding for 2012. Some of these proposals received awards from the Fund for the first time, while for others it is the second or third instalment of approved funding. Here's the list:

Proposal Title	Contact
Afropolitanism and internationalisation	Prof Ari Sitas
Centre for African Origins	Prof Judith Sealy
Citizen Scientists: Ambassadors for biodiversity	Prof Les Underhill
Climate change, climate justice and behavioural besponses to climate risk, Environmental Policy Research Unit	Dr Martine Visser
Climate Smart capacity for climate services	Prof Bruce Hewitson
Clinical scholars programme	Prof Bongani Mayosi
Developing leadership for disability inclusion in social policy processes	Assoc Prof Theresa Lorenzo
Digital repositories project	Dr Colin Tredoux
Diversity literacy capping course	Assoc Prof Melissa Steyn
Field trip for Xhosa Intensive B students	Adjunct Prof Tessa Dowling
Global Citizenship, Leadership and Social Justice Project	Dr Janice McMillan
Institute for Comparative African Law	Prof Hanri Mostert
Khayelitsha 100-Up Project	Dr Jon Clark
Knowledge Co-Op	Prof Crain Soudien and Prof Danie Visser
Marine multiscale data and models	Prof John Field
Memories of apartheid	Renate Meyer
Merging sci, hum and indigenous knowledge systems in Africa w/innovative and sustainable biodiversity exploration for human health	Assoc Prof David Gammon
On-line version of Honours/Master's in Teaching French as a Foreign Language	Dr Vanessa Everson
PG Student Support	Linda Vranas
Physiotherapy collaboration in Rwanda	Prof Jennifer Jelsma
Poverty and Inequality Initiative	Emer Prof Francis WilsonEmer Prof Francis Wilson
ProVC Climate Change	Prof Mark New
Raising the platform higher for research on social well-being in South African and in the rest of Africa	Assoc Prof Martin Wittenberg
Research on sustainable enterprise in emergent economies	Assoc Prof Ralph Hamann
Safety And Violence Initiative	Prof Crain Soudien
School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics	Prof Paula Ensor
Schools Improvement Initiative	Dr Jonathan Clark
Specific Pathogen Free Unit	Prof Karen Barnes
Student Development Programme	Dr Ian Mackintosh
Studies of risk, uncertainty and the costs of waiting in the dynamics of African poverty and development (Proposal 1)	Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics (RUBEN)
Studies of risk, uncertainty and the costs of waiting in the dynamics of African poverty and development (Proposal 2)	RUBEN, and others
Summer undergraduate research experience	Assoc Prof Hussein Suleman, Assoc Prof James Gain and Dr Michelle Kuttel
Technology deployment for sustainable urban development	Prof Francis Petersen, Assoc Prof Harro von Blottnitz
Training in quant analysis, Centre for Social Science Research Summer School	Prof Jeremy Seekings
Training in quantitative research methods	Prof Robert Mattes
UCT Web Renewal Project	Sakkie Janse van Rensburg
Unit for Digital Forensics Research	Adrie Stander
University Research Committee incentive funding	Dr Marilet Sienaert

Amount awarded in 2012

Legend

0 to R499,999 R500,000 to R999,999 R1 million and more