The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) programme is a national knowledge and human resource development intervention, led by the Department of Science and Technology and managed by the National Research Foundation (NRF).

The main goal of the initiative is to strengthen and improve research and innovation capacity of public universities for producing high-quality postgraduate students, research, and innovation outputs. Some of the objectives of SARChI are to:

• Expand the scientific research and innovation capacity of South Africa;
• Improve South Africa’s international research and innovation competitiveness while responding to social and economic challenges of the country;
• Attract and retain excellent researchers and scientists;
• Increase the production of masters and doctoral graduates; and
• Create research career pathways for young and mid-career researchers, with a strong research, innovation, and human capital development output trajectory.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 is home to fourteen (14) SARChI Research Chairs:

• Insects in Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystems - Distinguished Professor Martin Hill?
• Marine Natural Products Research - Professor Rosemary Dorrington 
• Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Eukaryotic Stress Response - Professor Adrienne Edkins
• South African Numeracy - Professor Mellony Graven
• Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education - Professor Russell Kaschula
• Biotechnology Innovation and Engagement - Professor Janice Limson
• Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning - Distinguished Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka
• Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction - Distinguished Professor Catriona Macleod
• Marine Ecosystems and Resources - Distinguished Professor Christopher McQuaid
• Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology - Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong
• Mathematics Education Chair - Professor Marc Schafer
• Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods - Professor Charlie Shackleton
• Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa - Professor Ruth Simbao
  
• Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies - Professor Oleg Smirnov 

In addition, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 enjoys the associated hosting of a 15th SARChI chair within its associated institute SAIAB (South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity):

•           Inland Fisheries and Freshwater Ecology

The chair incumbent is Professor Olaf Weyl, Honorary Professor of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网

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