URC-accredited research groupings

Commerce | Engineering & the Built Environment | Health Sciences | Humanities | Law | Science

Commerce

Accounting and Accountability in Africa Research Unit (AAARU)
Advancement of Business Competitive (ABC-Unit)
Actuarial Research, Centre for (CARe)
Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)
Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit
Information Technology and National Development in Africa, Centre for (CITANDA)
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU)

Engineering & the Built Environment

African Centre for Cities (ACC)
Bioprocess Engineering Research, Centre for (CeBER)
Blast Impact & Survivability Research Unit (BISRU)
Catalysis Research, Centre for (CCR)
Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit (CoMSIRU)
Crystalisation and Precipitation Research Unit (CPRU)
Energy Research Centre (ERC)
Minerals Research, Centre for (CMR)
Materials Engineering, Centre for (CME)
Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics, Centre for (CERECAM)
Research in Engineering Education, Centre for (CREE)
Sasol Advanced Fuels Laboratory Unit (SAFL)

Health Sciences

Adolescent Health Research Unit (AHRU)
Albertina & Walter Sisulu Institute for Ageing in Africa (IAA)
Cardiovascular Research Unit (CRU)
Desmond Tutu HIV Centre
Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D)
Gender, Health and Justice Unit
Hatter Institute of Cardiology Research
Health Economics Unit (HEU)
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, Centre for (CIDER)
Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Institute of (IIDMM)
MRC/UCT Cape Heart Centre
MRC/UCT Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit
MRC/UCT Human Genetics Research Unit
MRC/UCT Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit
MRC/UCT Liver Research Centre
MRC/UCT Medical Imaging Research Unit
MRC/NHLS/UCT Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit (MMRU)
MRC/UCT Oesophageal Cancer Research Group
MRC/UCT Receptor Biology Research Group
MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine
Occupational and Environmental Health Research, Centre for (COEHR)
UCT Leukemia Unit
Women's Health Research Unit (WHRU)

Humanities

African Cinema Unit (ACU)
Comparative Religion in Southern Africa, Institute for (ICRSA)
Contemporary Islam, Centre for (CCI)
Intercultural & Diversity Studies Unit (iNCUDISA)
Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research
Lucy Lloyd Archive Resource & Exhibition Centre (LLAREC)
Popular Memory, Centre for (CPM)
Research Institute on Christianity and Society in Africa (RICSA)
Rhetoric Studies, Centre for (CRS)
Social Science Research, Centre for (CSSR)

Law

Criminology, Centre of
Development & Labour Law, Institute of (IDLL)
Intellectual Property Research Unit (IPRU)

Science

Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity, Centre for Research in (ACGC)
Animal Demography Unit (ADU)
Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D)
Environmental Evaluation Unit (EEU)
Information & Communications Technology Centre for Development (ICT4D)
Marine Research (MA-RE) Institute
Nanosciences Innovation Centre
Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology (Fitzstitute)
Plant Conservation Unit (CPU)
Scientific Computing Research Unit (SCRU)
Supramolecular Chemistry Research, Centre for (CSCR)
Theoretical & Mathematical Physics, Centre for (CTMP)
UCT-CERN Research Centre

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