Overview: Research Collaborators

Introduction

The Research Collaborators sub-category provides the facility to list the names of various collaborators you may have worked with as well as the institution they were associated with.

One may also add additional information, such as the topics covered and the years associated with this collaboration.  

There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

Existing entries may be edited / updated subsequently, if required, or deleted.  

Entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

Each subsequent entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour.  This formatting is only used within the Researcher Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries..

Research Collaborators procedures

Working with fields in this sub-category

Field types/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.

Extendable select fields

The Institution field is an extendable select type field.

  • After entering three characters into these fields, a drop-down list of similarly named institutions appears.  

  • As more characters are entered, the drop-down list will be further refined.  

  • Select your institution from the drop-down list, if it appears, or continue entering the name your institution.   

  • Institutions which do not appear on the drop-down list will be added to the list once they have been vetted.

Drop-down list fields

  • Drop-down list fields contain a list of predefined options.

  • Click on the fields drop-down arrow to view the drop-down list.

  • Select an item from the drop-down list.

  • The selected item appears in the field.

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