Growing the Next Generation of Researchers

A Handbook for Emerging Researchers and Their Mentors

This book arises out of the University of Cape Town’s Emerging Researcher Programme. It identifies and promotes awareness of contemporary challenges in the local and global higher education context; explains the intrinsic nature of academia worldwide; and provides strategies for individual growth that result in sustained, high-quality research output. It also addresses institutional leadership whose responsibility is to create an environment conducive to the flourishing of research and researchers.