THE ROLE, TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH DIRECTORATE:
The Faculty of Health Science (FHS) Research Directorate is positioned to the faculty’s ethos of the inclusive and holistic biopsychosocial nature of health; and recognises the value-based approach- premised on Ubuntu - to articulate the realisation premise of the transformative and socially accountable goals of the faculty. It is within this, that the FHS Research Directorate underscores research stewardship as a tenant to ensure advocacy, collaborative research and engagement, innovations in health science knowledge systems that are relevant and sustainable and impactful in being of service to the community (within all facets of the micro and macro context – institution, local, provincial, national, regional and global) in advancing the health of all.
The FHS Research Directorate aims to:
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Facilitate a conducive and supportive environment for students and academics that will enable high quality health sciences research
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Creating pathways for translational health research
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Creating opportunities to leverage health research entrepreneurship
Some of the core areas that are embedded in the FHS Research Directorate are:
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Post-graduate Research Capacity Development
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Mentoring Emerging Researchers
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Identifying Flagship Research Programmes
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Promoting Engaged, innovative Scholarship
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Developing Strategic Research Partnerships
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Fostering an enabling research environment and systems
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Contributing to Resource Mobilisation and financial sustainability in terms of research programmes
The Research Directorate facilitates Postgraduate Studies Committee, Research Engagement, Development and Internationalisation.