Home /
Research, Innovation and Internationalisation
Research, Innovation & Internationalisation
Research
A fundamental aspect of Nelson Mandela University, is producing high quality research that makes an impact.
Read more
Innovation
Innovation is a fundamental part of the education landscape, allowing us to engage in creating new knowledge.
Read more
International Office
Enriching diversity by drawing postgraduate students from SADC, other African countries, and the global community.
Read more
Sustainability
We are committed to working toward making the combined global and continental vision of sustainability a reality.
Read more
Research Chairs
Research Chairs strengthen and improve research and innovation capacity of public universities for producing high quality postgraduate students and research and innovation outputs.
Find out more
Research entities
Entities strengthen existing scholarly activities as well as open up new fields of research and scholarship that are consistent with the University’s strategic direction and priorities.
Find out more
Research Management
Research Management focuses on the needs of established researchers and manages issues such as grants, publication funding, research entities, internal research incentives and research information management systems.
Find out more
Research Development
RD focuses its activities around the development of new and emerging researchers and providing access to funding opportunities for postgraduate students.
Find out more
A day on the beach 100 000 years ago
Humans delight in creating patterns in the sand, and more than 100,000 years ago it would appear we were no different.
The vision for flow chemistry technology in rewriting the story on life-saving medicine
As SA heralds Gqeberha’s Aspen Pharmacare for producing 30 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, a chemistry professor in the same city is quietly hoping to take the drug story much further.
Shale gas development, land tenure and security in the spotlight
In the context of possible future shale gas exploitation, if the conflicts and uncertainties between communities and traditional authorities regarding land tenure and tenure security are not addressed, the potential benefits of shale gas development may be jeopardized.
Master’s graduate’s exceptional diligence leads to unusual insights
Zoology Master’s graduate Hendrik du Toit overcame the challenging trials of doing a field and laboratory-based research project during the lockdown of 2020, to graduate cum laude at Nelson Mandela University’s April Graduation.
World IP Day: “IP & SME’s: Taking your ideas to market”
Every year on 26 April we celebrate World Intellectual Property day, to learn about the role that intellectual property plays in encouraging innovation and creativity. The theme for 2021 was “IP & SME’s: Taking your ideas to market”.
Solar Boat going solo soon in Nelson Mandela Bay
An Autonomous Solar Boat prototype that was designed in Nelson Mandela Bay will soon have its maiden voyage at sea.
Computing Sciences at Mandela Uni part of international climate change project #R2bP
Reasons to be Proud - #R2bP: Mandela University’s Department of Computing Sciences has received funding from The British Council Creative Commission as part of Project-ArC – an international consortium of 12 universities that will collaborate to deploy local initiatives for Climate Change accountability and responsibility.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: from Anxiety to Hope
When Klaus Schwab, the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, coined the phrase ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (4IR), he argued that this new industrial revolution would happen at an exponential pace, and that new technologies would change society in unpredictable ways.
INTERNATIONALISATION NEWS
International Graduates 2021
The Mandela International Office wishes to extend a hearty congratulations to all our international graduates who have completed their study journey at Nelson Mandela University!
Study and Research in Germany
Join our info sessions and find out all you need to know about study and research in Germany. In our Master and PhD sessions we elaborate on available DAAD scholarships for postgraduate studies.
Mapping Sustainability at Mandela University
To support an African and Global vision of sustainability, Nelson Mandela University has implemented an extensive mapping exercise and a deliberate tracking process to assess and monitor the extent to which its research strategies and initiatives support this vision.
Nelson Mandela University shines in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
The Times Higher Education [THE] Impact Rankings are global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – essentially measuring higher education institutions’ contribution to the SDGs.