Overview: Engaged Scholarship sub-category

Introduction

The Engaged Scholarship sub-category is the area where one can list all instances of engaged scholarship that one has been involved in.

Engaged Scholarship procedures

Working with fields in this sub-category:

Fields

Description/field rules

Compulsory fields

  • All fields which are UCT compulsory fields are noted by *

  • All fields which are NRF compulsory fields are noted by *

  • If synchronisation with the NRF is required, completion of the National Research Foundation (NRF) fields is mandatory.  For more information, see: NRF funding overview (external link).

  • Note: Not all academics/researchers require synchronisation with the NRF

Free text fields

  • Title free text fields are restricted to 100 characters.

  • The NRF Summary text is restricted to 5500 characters.

  • Other free text fields are restricted to 500 characters and have no limit on type of character input.

Rich text fields

  • In rich text fields you may apply formatting to the text (bold / italics /underline / strikethrough / alignment / subscript / superscript / bullets / numbering / indentation / special characters).

  • There is no limit on the amount of characters you may enter in this field.

Drop-down list fields

  • Drop-down list fields contain a list of pre-defined options.

  • To view and select items in the drop-down list:

  • Click on the drop-down arrow.

  • Select an item from the drop-down list.

  • The selected item appears in the field .

Keywords field

  • Keywords provide a way of assigning an assortment of relevant words to an entry.

  • Each keyword may be separated by a space, comma or semi-colon.

  • When creating a CV, the assigned keywords are displayed.

  • Keywords may contain a maximum of 100 characters.

See also: Overview: Working with fields in the Researcher Profiles module