College of Economic and Management Sciences
Research Recognitions and Awards 2012
16 October 2012, 07:45-10:00
Protea Restaurant
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Welcome: Prof Elmarie Sadler, Acting Executive Dean
Keynote Address: Prof Kgethi Setati, Vice Principal: Research and Innovation
Breakfast
Recognitions to CEMS researchers:
Staff members who obtained their Master’s during 2012
Petri Bester
Natasha Da Silva-Esclana
Musi Dowelani
Michael Du Toit (With distinction)
Louise Engelbrecht
Valery Louw (With distinction)
Edward Masemola
Adri Meyer
Gerald Mohlala
Abigail Moshoeu
Eric Nenzhelele (With distinction)
Abram Phenya
Jacolize Poalses
Kgalamadi Benford Ramusi
Elna Rautenbach
Charlene Roets
Werner Uys
Zelna van Niekerk
Riaan Dirkse van Schalkwyk (With distinction)
Staff members who obtained their Doctoral degrees during 2012
Pholoso Disoloane
Nadia Ferreira
Barry Hanyane
Yvonne Joubert
Leoni Julyan
Ophillia Ledimo
Ingrid Potgieter
Llewellyn Van Zyl
Maelekanyo Christopher Tshilongamulenzhe
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Staff members receiving the Chancellor’s Prize for 2010-2011
Prof Melinde Coetzee (School of Management Sciences)
Prof NM Odhiambo (School of Economic Sciences)
The Bureau of Market Research (Outstanding group of research)
Staff members receiving the various Women-in-Research Awards for 2011
Prof Breggie van der Poll (Research Leadership Award)
Prof Liza van Jaarsveldt (Young PhD Award)
Leaders of CEMS Research Flagships 2012
Prof Willem Fouché (Computability, Complexity and Randomness in Decision Science
(CCRDS)
Prof Theo van der Merwe and Prof Carel van Aardt (Econometric modelling)
Prof Eric O Udjo (Demographic modelling and analysis)
Prof Jan Venter and Prof Bernadene de Clercq (Personal Finance)
Prof Nicholas M Odhiambo (Growth, poverty and policy modelling (GPPM))
Prof Godwell Nhamo (Green Economy and Climate Change (GE&CC))
Prof Deon Tustin (Youth Research)
Prof Melinde Coetzee (Open distance learning)
New NRF rated researchers
Prof Hester Nienaber
Recognitions to CEMS ODL achievers:
Staff member receiving the Excellence in Tuition Award
Theo van der Vyver
Rochelle Wessels
Staff member producing the most ODL research output during 2011
Prof Johan Marx (1.5 output points)
Recognitions to CEMS Schools and Departments:
Departments hosting Postdoctoral Fellows
Institute for Corporate Citizenship
The School producing the most research output points per capita during 2011
The School of Management Sciences (0.31)
The School with the highest increase in research output points per capita
between 2010 and 2011
The School of Accounting Sciences
The Department producing the most research output points per capita during
2011 in the College
Department of Public Administration and Management (0.71)
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The Department producing highest increase in research output points per
capita between 2010 and 2011 in the College
Department of Public Administration and Management
CEMS Research Awards:
The individual academic who supervised the second most research Master’s
dissertations for graduation in 2012 (1 point for single supervision and 0,5 for cosupervision)
Prof Johan Strydom (Department of Business Management) and
Prof Melinde Coetzee (Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
(3 output points)
The individual academic who supervised the most research Master’s
dissertations for graduation in 2012 (1 point for single supervision and 0,5 for cosupervision)
Prof Marié de Beer (Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology) (4
output points)
The individual academic who supervised the second most Doctoral candidates
for graduation in 2012 (1 point for single supervision and 0,5 for co-supervision)
Five colleagues have 1 output point each: they are the following:
Prof MK Luhandjula (Department of Decision Sciences)
Prof Johan Du Pisanie (Department of Economics)
Prof Elana Swanepoel (Department of Business Management / Office of
Graduate Studies and Research)
Prof Eddie Ströh (Department of Public Administration and Management)
The individual academic who supervised the most Doctoral candidates for
graduation in 2012 (1 point for single supervision and 0,5 for co-supervision)
Prof Melinde Coetzee (Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
(3 output points)
The developing researcher producing the most research output points during
2011 in the College
Mr Intaher Ambe (Department of Business Management) (3 output points)
The individual academic producing the most research output points during
2011 in the College
Prof Nicholas Odhiambo (Department of Economics) (9 output points)
10:00 Closure
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