Funding opportunities: Research Development Fund: Past awardees
Successful UCT applications: WUN Research Development Fund (2011)
| UCT researcher | UCT department | Title of project | Main collaborator |
| Professor Robert Mattes (co-ordinator) | Centre for Social Science Research | Changing Political Culture Through Education: Democratic Citizenship and School Curriculum in Post-Apartheid South Africa Global Challenge: Understanding Cultures |
Professor Murray Print Professor and Chair of Education University of Sydney Professor David Denmark Professor of Political Science and International Relations School of Physics University of Western Australia Professor Constance Flanagan Professor of Human Ecology Department of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Professor Minette Coetzee and Mr Warren Hickson | School of Child and Adolescent Health | WUN Global Health Literacy Network: the role of health literacy in addressing the social determinants of non-communicable disease Global Challenge: Global Public Health |
Dr Sian Smith(co-ordinator) CHonorary Research Fellow Public Health, School of Public Health UUniversity of Sydney |
| Dr Shadreck Chirikure | Department of Archaeology | Building and Indian Ocean Archaeology Network Global Challenge: Adapting to Climate Change & Understanding Cultures |
Professor Alistair Paterson(co-ordinator) Professor of Centre for Rock Art Research and Management Archaeology University of Western Australia |
| Assoc. Professor Fiona Ross | Department of Social Anthropology | Transforming Post-Conflict Societies: Everyday Violence and Access to Justice Global Challenge: Understanding Cultures |
Dr Jelke Boesten (co-ordinator) Senior lecturer in Social Development and Human Security University of Leeds |
| Professor Shamil Jeppie | Institute for Humanities in Africa | Geographies of Power: Justice, Revolution, and Cultural Imaginitaion Understanding Cultures |
Dr Sophia McClennen (co-ordinator) Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature Director & Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies Graduate Director, Comparative Literature Pennsylvania State University |
Successful UCT applications: WUN Research Development Fund (2010)
| UCT researcher | UCT department | Title of project | Main collaborator |
| Patrick Woudt (co-ordinator) | Astronomy | Characterising the transient radio sky with SKA precursors |
Professor Rob Fender Project Leader for LOFAR-UK Deputy Head of School for Research, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, UK Dr Tara Murphy Astroinformatics School of Physics School of Information Technologies University of Sydney, Australia |
| William Horsnell (co-ordinator) | Immunology | Immune responses underlying COPD pathology |
Dr Alun Kirby Centre for Immunology and Infection Department of Biology and HYMS University of York, UK Professor Stephen T Holgate Immunopharmacology Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Division University of Southampton, UK |
| Sebastiana Kalula | The Walter & Albertina Sisulu Institute of Ageing | Global Social Initiative on Ageing |
Professor Norah C Keating (co ordinator) Chair , North American Region, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Professor and Co-director Research on Aging , Policies and Practice Department of Human Ecology Adjunct Professor, Department of Family Medicine University of Alberta, Canada |
| Jonny Myers | Public Health | Imagining a Warmer World: Using Scenario Planning to Create Fair and Equitable Climate Adaptation Law and Policy |
Dr David Battisti (co-ordinator) Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Tamaki Endowed Chair University of Washington, USA |
| John Bolton | Botany | Global Patterns of Climate Adaptation in Kelps |
Professor Thomas Wernberg (co-ordinator) School of Plant Biology, Oceans Institute Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences The University of Western Australia, Western Australia |
| Gina Ziervogel | Environmental & Geographical Science | Limits to Adaptation |
Dr Petra Tschakert (co-ordinator) Department of Geography College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Penn State University, USA |
| Sue Parnell | Environmental and Geographical Science | Globalising Geographies of Research |
Professor Wendy Larner (co-ordinator) Research Director, Faculty of Social Science and Law School of Geographical Studies Faculty of Social Science and Law University of Bristol UK |