College of Business and Economics Annual Report 2017 19 Prof Llewellyn Leonard Vice Dean: Research College of Business and Economics OVERVIEW The CBE continues to excel in progressing on quality research and attracting excellent postgraduates, thus expanding our footprint on the African continent and globally. Our postgraduate output and research quality increased in 2017 because of our talented researchers, supervisors and lectures, but also including our diverse research partners and international collaborators. Although the quality of CBE publications improved, research output was 2% less than for 2016 due to the cyclic nature of producing quality research output and targeting international journals. The quality of CBE research output has progressed by 6% annually since 2015. In 2017 postgraduate output represented over 30% of university output. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY Various initiatives continue to stimulate research and scholarly activity in the College. These included: • the appointment of six visiting professors from Belgium, Congo, South Africa, Finland and Ghana; • the appointment of a visiting associate professor from Italy; • the appointment of two emeritus professors; • the appointment of five professors of practice from South Africa; • the appointment of nine postdoctoral research fellows; • the appointment of six research associates from Ghana, Nigeria, United States and South Africa; and • the appointment of two senior research fellows from Zambia and South Africa. • The School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems (SCiiS), in collaboration with the University of Botswana, hosted the 2nd International Conference on the Internet, Cyber Security and Information Systems (ICICIS) in August 2017 at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton. • The research partnership between the School of Tourism and Hospitality (STH) and the University of Strathclyde (UK) culminated in a research conference on Human Resource Management in Tourism held at the STH in September 2017. Great international partnerships emerged from the conference and the conference proceedings will be produced in 2018. • The STH in partnership with the National Department of Tourism (NDT) engaged in a national research project on Transformation in the travel sector. • The STH completed and presented research on cultural tourism for the World Tourism Forum in Lucerne. The research was conducted by Dr Milena Ivanovic and Ms Maisa Adinolfi. • CBE staff and students attendance of Postgraduate School research support were well attended: • Workshop participants – 164 academic staff • Academic research writing consultation – 8 staff • Coaching for PhD completion – 5 staff • Supervision courses – 9 staff • Postgraduate students writing consultations – 64 students • Postgraduate symposium – 6 students Although the credit value for conference proceedings increased by 11,64 credits and books by 5 credits when compared to the 2016 output, there was a decline in the number of research credits for: • journals (-7 credits) and • book chapters (-14). 194 JOURNAL ARTICLE CREDITS 19 BOOK CREDITS 15 BOOK CHAPTER CREDITS 56 CONFERENCE PROCEEDING CREDITS PRELIMINARY 2017 CBE RESEARCH OUTPUT
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