Research entities

The Faculty is home to globally renowned and emerging scholars working within, between and beyond disciplines in the humanities at the horizon of the knowledge economy. The Faculty has members of academic staff that are members of the prestigious Academy of Science of South Africa and staff that have obtained ratings from the National Research Foundation. 

The Faculty’s collective knowledge is published through a number of high-quality books, chapters, creative outputs and journal articles that give shape to a formidable bibliometric footprint and societal impact. 

In keeping with the vision of a research-intensive university the Faculty will continue to develop and advance globally impactful scholarship on the questions that define and disrupt what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. 

A host of research groups and entities can be found within the faculty and across our schools. Browse through some of them below. Other important work from across the University, including multidisciplinary research projects can be found here.