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The South African research community are invited to participate in a process to ensure that local contexts, challenges and good practices are accurately represented.

An eResearch snapshot has been added to the suite of UCT brochures that provide a concise, compelling overview of key highlights in a specific theme or area.

A report developed for UCT eResearch on the first South African Research Software Symposium provides insights into the event programme, participants and outcomes.

UCT's eResearch Centre has played a leading role in shaping national recognition for research software, inspiring the NSTF, in partnership with SADiLaR, to launch a new award category: the Research Software Awards.

The major upgrade to the University of Cape Town (UCT) Upper Campus Data Centre has been successfully completed, enhancing the technological infrastructure behind many of UCT's online services.

The inaugural Research Software Symposium will take place on 4 November 2025.

UCT celebrates International Research Software Engineering (RSE) Day and looks forward to hosting the first research software symposium in Africa.

WDS membership reinforces UCT's leadership in responsible data stewardship, in a strategic step towards global research excellence.

The UCT eResearch team attended the Open Science Fair 2025 in September, and opportunity to engage directly with the InvenioRDM team at CERN

In August, UCT convened key stakeholders to shape the university’s research software engineering (RSE) initiative.

The Figshare South Africa User Conference brought together research data management (RDM) specialists from across South Africa for insightful sharing of best practices.

In July 2025, a group of researchers who develop research software from across South Africa gathered for a hands-on workshop on Sustainable Research Software Engineering (RSE).

The UCT eResearch Centre was an active participant at this year’s Annual National Research Data Workshop, contributing to important conversations around data governance and the future of research data services in South Africa.

The UCT eResearch Centre participated in the inter-university Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy's (IDIA) 10th anniversary, three-day research retreat, hosted at the UCT’s Graduate School of Business from 4–6 June 2025.

The recent upgrade of the Upper Campus Data Centre has provided UCT with a world-class environment for housing the high-performance computing (HPC) facility.

UCT has officially joined DataCite, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to providing persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs) for research data.

The Student Data Festival showcased the vital role of data in shaping decisions, improving teaching, and driving student success across the university.

On Thursday, 9 May, Professor Lisa Seymour presented the second of four inaugural lectures taking place this month as part of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Inaugural Lecture series.

Personal data becomes susceptible to being used across political parties and polling companies. A “dose of scepticism” will be required to mitigate falling victim to getting your personal data in nefarious hands.

Highlighting the globally competitive excellence at UCT, the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) researchers developed leading-edge infrastructure and innovation to address urgent health challenges.