Catalytic Niche Areas

Areas

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The catalytic niche areas are:

  1. Marine Studies,
  2. Aviation and Aeronautical studies,
  3. Automotive,
  4. Energy,
  5. Space study and Square Kilometer Array,
  6. Fourth Industrial revolution and Digitalisation,
  7. Natural Sciences/ Biotechnological studies,
  8. Health Studies/Medicine,
  9. Feminist, Womanist, Bosadi Theorisations and
  10. Student Support and Co-Curricular activities

In keeping with our mandate as a service College, the College of Graduate Studies is tasked with playing a supportive role by providing institutional level leadership in the optimisation of the catalytic niche areas across all UNISA spaces, with specific emphasis on infusing the CNAs into our research and postgraduate ecosystems.

In the spirit of our commitment to multi, inter, and transdisciplinary approaches to research, we departed from the conviction that all Colleges, and all disciplines, could play a meaningful role in shaping the institutional level response to the CNAs. While different disciplines will take ownership of conceptualising discipline-specific responses to the CNAs, the CGS is playing a crucial role in ensuring institution-wide buy-in into all the CNAs, and in shaping rigorous, multidisciplinary, and institutional level CNA responses.

Last modified: 2024/08/20