Research groups (by faculty)
Formal research groups include staff and students from various departments and faculties, working across disciplines to understand and alleviate some of society's major challenges.
Formal research groups include staff and students from various departments and faculties, working across disciplines to understand and alleviate some of society's major challenges. All formal research groups are accredited by the University Research Committee (URC).
Faculty of Commerce
- Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa (CITANDA)
- Development Policy Research Unit
- Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
- Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing (PRISM)
- Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP)
- Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics (RUBEN)
- Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU)
Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment
- African Centre for Cities (ACC)
- Applied Thermofluid Process Modelling Research Unit (ATProM)
- Blast Impact and Survivability Research Unit (BISRU)
- Catalysis Institute
- Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research (CeBER)
- Centre for Materials Engineering (CME)
- Centre for Minerals Research (CMR)
- Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM)
- Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE)
- Centre for Transport Studies (CTS)
- Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit (CoMSIRU)
- Crystallisation and Precipitation Research Unit (CPRU)
- Future Water Institute
- Minerals to Metals Initiative
- Urban Real-Estate Research Unit (URERU)
- Sustainability Oriented + Cyber Research Unit for Built Environment (S⊕CUBE)
Faculty of Health Sciences
- Adolescent Health Research Unit (AHRU)
- Alan J Flisher Research Centre for Public Mental Health
- Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute for Ageing in Africa (IAA)
- Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (BMERC)
- Centre for Brain Behaviour
- Cape Heart Institute (CHI)
- Cardiovascular Research Unit (CRU)
- Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research (CEOHR)
- Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa)
- Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (CIDER)
- Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity (CLII) (hosts the MRC Flagship NeXT RCT and the MRC Anti-Microbial Resistance Extramural Unit)
- Children's Institute
- Child Language Africa (CLA)
- Desmond Tutu HIV Centre (hosts the UCT/Medical Research Council (MRC) flagship project: Tuberculosis Transmission Host, Bacterium and Environment)
- Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit (GHJRU)
- Health Economics Unit (HEU)
- Health Through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sports (H-PALS)
- HIV Mental Health Unit (HIVMHU)
- Human Genetics Research Unit
- Including Disability in Education in Africa
- Inclusive Practices Africa (IPA)
- Immunology of Infectious Diseases Research Unit
- Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM)
- Kidney Disease and Hypertension Research Unit
- Medical Biotechnology and Immunotherapy Unit (MB&I)
- MRC/UCT Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit (H-3D)
- MRC/UCT Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre
- Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit
- MRC/UCT Child and Adolescent Lung Health Research Unit
- MRC/UCT Precision and Genomic Medicine Research Unit
- MRC/UCT/SU Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders
- Neuroscience Institute
- Orthopaedic Research Unit (ORU)
- Receptor Biology Research Unit
- South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI)
- MRC/UCT Platform for Pharmacogenomics Research & Translation Research Unit
- MRC/UCT Intersection of Noncommunicable Disease and Infectious Diseases Research Unit
- MRC/UCT Wound and Keloid Scarring Translational Research Unit
Faculty of Humanities
- African Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society (ACRES)
- Centre for Contemporary Islam (CCI)
- Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR)
- Environmental Humanities South (EHS)
- Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa
- Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research
- Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA)
- Research Institute on Christianity and Society in Africa (RICSA)
Faculty of Law
- Centre of Criminology
- Intellectual Property Research Unit (IPRU)
- Centre for Rhetoric Studies
- Labour, Development and Governance Research Unit
Faculty of Science
- African Climate and Development Institute (ACDI)
- Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU) - CAIR UCT node
- Biopharming Research Unit (BRU)
- Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation (SEEC)
- Centre for Supramolecular Chemistry Research (CSCR)
- Centre for Theoretical and Mathematical physics (CTMP)
- Climate System Analysis Group
- FitzPatrick Institute for African Ornithology (Fitztitute)
- Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa (iCWild)
- Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI)
- Marine and Antarctic Research centre for Innovation and Sustainability (MARIS)
- Metrological and Applied Sciences University Research Unit (MeASURe)
- Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
- Plant Conservation Unit (CPU)
- Scientific Computing Research Unit (SCRU)
- UCT-CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) Research Centre
- MRC/UCT Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit (H3-D)
- African Heritage Hub & Research Centre (AHHRC)