College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2022 47 TALENT MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING During 2022, our staff complement, in addition to Prof Fiona Tregenna, comprised Senior Researcher Prof Alexis Habiyaremye, Administrator Mrs Koketso Manyane-Dlangamandla, Senior Manager Dr Nicola King (until August), Project Manager Gill Scott (from May), and several research assistants. We also have affiliated with us three distinguished visiting professors, five visiting professors, two professors of practice, two visiting associate professors, 24 senior research associates and two research associates. Among these are leading global scholars, most of whom also published journal articles and were engaged in SARChI-ID activities in various ways. We are proud to have such a large and dynamic team with interconnected research interests, making for vibrant exchange and development of ideas. We hosted in-person visits from Prof Antonio Andreoni, Prof Arkebe Oqubay, Prof Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Prof Lindsay Whitfield, and Nigisty Gebrechristos in 2022. In 2022, student registrations comprised 11 postdoctoral research fellows, 16 doctoral students, nine master’s and eight honours students; two postdoctoral research fellows and four master’s and three honours students completed their programmes. Dr Paulo Morceiro was appointed as a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow. We were able to support our students with various additional training and development activities, both within and outside of UJ. The Industrial Development and Policy Seminar Series continued to provide opportunities for students, postdocs, and staff to present their research in a seminar format, which served a vital role in the exchange of ideas and capacity building. We organised training and capacity-building workshops for our students and postdocs, such as one in which five of our postdoctoral research fellows and PhD students presented their work for discussion and feedback from Profs Antonio Andreoni and Fiona Tregenna. Students and postdoctoral fellows were encouraged and financially supported to take advantage of suitable external capacity development opportunities. For example, students and postdoctoral fellows attended an Autumn School for Postgrad Students; some participated in a writing and publishing retreat to overcome obstacles to academic writing, and others attended external econometrics training. We were thrilled that several of our students and postdocs presented their research at national and international conferences. Furthermore, several of our students and postdocs were recognised through international achievements and opportunities. For example, PhD student Santos Bila was selected for the highly competitive “2022 IMF Youth Fellowship”, while Master’s student Nokwanda Mathenjwa travelled to the United States through her selection as a “2022 Mandela Washington Fellow”. We continued to run the doctoral programme “PhD in Economics with Specialisation in Industrial Development”, with increased enrolment in 2022.
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