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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Self-Initiated Research Grants year, with the distribution of these by ethnic group,
The Self-Initiated Research (SIR) programme gender and institution shown in the figures below.
provides grants of up to R200,000 per annum for Application of a transformation matrix has resulted
3 years to early and mid-career researchers in a in a year-on-year increase in the number of awards to
variety of health disciplines and priority areas. The black applicants, with the total proportion of awards
total 2023/24 SIR portfolio comprises 137 grants, to black applicants increasing from 27% in 2012/13
of which 134 received a disbursement this financial to 72% in 2023/24.
2023/24 SIR Grant Portfolio by Race 2023/24 SIR Grant Portfolio by Gender
28%
39% 37%
63%
15%
18%
African Indian Female
Coloured White Male
2023/24 SIR Grant Portfolio by Institution
25 12
21
16
13
11
9
5
4 4
1 1 1 3 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
CAPRISA Rhodes Univen
ARC CPUT CSIR DUT ICGEB NHLS NICD NMU NWU SMU UCT UFH UFS UJhb UKZN UNISA UPret UStell UWC WHC Wits WSU
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