1.1School of Economic and Financial Sciences

COLLEGE OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES: RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS FOR MASTER’S AND DOCTORAL STUDIES

The number of M and D registrations should be informed by the availability of suitable supervisors to ensure that available supervisory capacity is not exceeded. This will maintain supervisor/student ratios that would be conducive to high-quality results.

1.1School of Economic and Financial Sciences

Department name / Focus Area / Lead Researcher
(Contact Person) / Capacity per Focus Area/Research Team
Department of Economics / Development Economics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Masters: up to 9
Doctorates: up to 7
History and Philosophy of Economics
/ Prof D Hodge
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 3
International Economics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Masters: up to 5
Doctorates: up to 4
Macroeconomics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Masters: up to 6
Doctorates: up to 6
Microeconomics
/ Prof B Moyo
E-mail: / Masters: up to 7
Doctorates: up to 5
Monetary Economics
/ Prof NM Odhiambo
E-mail: / Masters: up to 8
Doctorates: up to 4
Public Economics
/ Prof T van der Merwe
E-mail:
/ Masters: up to 6
Doctorates: up to 4
Department of Decision Sciences / Financial Modelling
/ Prof Petrus Potgieter
E-mail:
/ Masters: up to 5
Doctorates: up to 3
Heuristics, Optimisation and Statistical Modelling
/ Prof Safari Mukeru
E-mail: / Masters: up to 5
Doctorates: up to 3
Computability, Complexity and Randomness in Decision Science (CCRDS)
/ Prof Willem Fouche
E-mail:
/ Masters: up to 5
Doctorates: up to 3
Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking / Corporate Finance, Personal Finance, Banking, Investment and Markets, Risk Management and Governance
/ Prof Daniel Makina
E-mail: / Masters: up to 45
Doctorates: up to 13

1.2School of Management Sciences

Department name / Focus Area / Lead Researcher
(Contact Person) / Capacity per Focus Area/Research Team
Department of Business Management / Strategic and Competitive Intelligence
/ Prof Nisha Sedwass
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 4
International Business Strategies and Finance
/ Prof Adewale Aregbeshola
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 5
South African Automotive Industry
/ Prof S Rudansky-Kloppers
E-mail: / Masters: up to 9
Doctorates: up to 6
Business Management in South Africa
/ Prof Edmund Ferreira
E-mail: / Masters: up to 6
Doctorates: up to 7
Corporate Sustainability
/ Mrs Catherine le Roux
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: 0
Strategy-as-Practice
/ Prof Annemarie Davis
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: 0
Department of Human Resources Management / Ensuring a sound labour/industrial/employment relations environment through effective conflict management
/ Ms Maggie Holtzhausen
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: 0
Organisational Justice
Organisational commitment
Organisational citizenship behaviour
Retention of employees
/ Prof Mariette Coetzee
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 2
Employee health and well-being,
Work engagement,
Talent management,
Changing world of work of Open Distance Learning (ODL) academics
/ Dr Hanneli Diedericks
E-mail : / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: 0
Work related well-being, work engagement and human capital development of academic staff members within changing distance, contact and blended higher education contexts
/ Prof Adéle Bezuidenhout
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 2
Adult learner self-directedness
/ Prof Melany Bushney
E-mail: / Masters: up to 5
Doctorates: 0
Adult learning principles in the workplace
/ Prof MJ Bushney
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: 0
Employee and organisational health and wellness
Labour Relations in South Africa
Diversity & Diversity management
ODL
Remuneration Management
/ Prof Yvonne Joubert
E-mail: / Masters: up to 26
Doctorates: up to 2
Skills Development in the South African Context
/ Prof MC Mulaudzi
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: up to 1
Retention in the workplace – the influence of psychological factors on employee wellbeing, social connectedness, career self-management
/ Prof Ingrid Potgieter
E-mail: / Masters: up to 6
Doctorates: up to 2
Effective employee relations by focussing on employees’ work-related perceptions and work experiences
/ Ms M Kirsten
E-mail: / Masters: up to 19
Doctorate: up to 4
High performance organisations and remuneration
/ Dr Anita de Bruyn
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorate: up to 1
Department of Marketing and Retail Management / Digital Marketing and Technology;
Customer Experience Management and Technology;
Small Business Marketing;
Retail Marketing and Merchandising;
Marketing Strategy
/ Mr Ricardo Machado
E-mail: / Masters: up to 8
Doctorates: up to 4
Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology / Organisational Psychology and Change
/ Prof Nico Martins
E-mail: / Masters: up to 9
Doctorates: up to 3
Systems Psychodynamics
/ Prof Michelle May
E-mail: / Masters: up to 5
Doctorates: up to 1
Organisational Neuroscience
/ Prof Dirk Geldenhuys
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 1
Psychology of career and human capacity development and retention
/ Prof Melinde Coetzee
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 2
Socio-analytic Methods
/ Prof MS May
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 3
Work-related sense of coherence
/ Prof S van der Westhuizen
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 1
Qualitative studies in employee well-being and adjustment
/ Prof HA Barnard
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 4
Measurement of individual characteristics and organisational behaviour
/ Prof S Grobler
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 1
Performance Management, Reward and Remuneration
/ Prof F Maloa
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 2
Bureau for Market Research / Socio Economic and Business Research
/ Prof Pierre Joubert
E-mail: / Masters: up to 23
Doctorates: up to 7
Institute for Corporate Citizenship / Socially Responsible Investment, Sustainable Investment, Ethical Investment
/ Prof Neil Eccles
E-mail: / Masters: 0
Doctorates: 1
Teaching Business Ethics
/ Prof Neil Eccles
E-mail: / Masters: 0
Doctorates: 1
Information Security as a Social Responsibility
/ Prof Mariki Eloff
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 2
Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, Green Economy, Renewable Energy and Africa Agenda 2063
/ Prof Godwell Nhamo
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 2

1.3School of Public and Operations Management

Department name / Focus Area / Lead Researcher
(Contact Person) / Capacity per Focus Area/Research Team
Department of Operations Management / Sustainable administrative environment
/ Dr Sumei van Antwerpen
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: up to 4
Production and Operations Management (POM) – Strategy and Improvement
/ Prof Louis P Krüger
E-mail: / Masters: up to 10
Doctorates: up to 8
Well-being /Competitiveness [Strategy, competitive advantage, performance gap, resources, human resources, talent management, engagement]
/ Prof Hester Nienaber
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 2
Project Management – Dynamics, The Managerial Process and Application
/ Prof Rigard J Steenkamp
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: up to 3
Total Quality Management – Implementation-as-Practice perspective, Application to sustain and maintain
/ Prof Kosie Oschman
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to1
Department Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain, Transport, Tourism and Logistics Management / Entrepreneurship
/ Prof Nkoana Radipere
E-mail: / Masters: up to 18
Doctorates: up to 8
Procurement and Supply Chain Management
/ Prof Hannie Badenhorst
E-mail: / Masters: up to 7
Doctorates: up to 6
Integrated Logistics
/ Prof Hannie Badenhorst
E-mail:
Prof C van Zyl
Email: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 5
Business and Leisure Tourism and Events
/ Prof C van Zyl
Email:
Dr Nellie Swart
E-mail: / Masters: up to 6
Doctorates: up to 5
Ecotourism
/ Dr Elricke Botha
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Hospitality and Attractions Management
/ Dr Nellie Swart, CMP
E-mail: / Masters: up to 3
Doctorates: up to 2
Marketing of Tourism Destinations and Tourism Businesses
/ Prof Marios Sotiriadis
E-mail: / Masters: up to 4
Doctorates: up to 3
Department of Public Administration and Management / Public Administration Knowledge, Methods and Education focuses on questions related to the relevance, meaningfulness, trustworthiness, methodological soundness, ethics and teaching of Public Administration scholarship
/ Prof JS Wessels
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 1
Public Policy
/ Prof WN Webb
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 0
Public Financial Management and Administration
/ Prof GM Ferreira
E-mail: / Masters: up to 1
Doctorates: up to 0
Public Human Resource Management, Organisational and Inter-sectoral Studies
/ Prof EJ Van der Westhuizen
E-mail: / Masters: up to 1
Doctorates: up to 0
Local Government and Public Service Delivery
/ Prof Sinval Kahn
E-mail: / Masters: up to 1
Doctorates: up to 1
Administrative Justice and Ethics
/ Prof M Van Heerden
E-mail: /
Prof DJ Brynard
E-mail: / Masters: up to 2
Doctorates: up to 1
Environmental Affairs, Creation of Wealth, Human Settlements and water, sanitation and refuse removal service delivery
/ Prof EJ Nealer
E-mail: / Masters: up to 7
Doctorates: up to 4