The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sakkie Pretorius has confirmed that two of our Centres, the Centre for Elite Performance Expertise and Training (CEPET) and the Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) have each received a further three years of funding starting in 2019.

The Centre for Elite Performance Expertise and Training (CEPET) facilitates and promotes research leading to an understanding of elite performance and expertise across a range of domains, with implications for selection, training, assessment, and practice.  It recently held its annual conference exploring the latest developments in expertise. The conference theme was ‘High-Stakes Expertise’ with four sessions over the two-day event: Cyber Security, Defence, Sport, and the Arts, and was attended by academics, business leaders and those interested in elite-level performance and what organisations need to do to develop, retain and reward expertise.

The Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS) researches theoretical and experimental issues in child language acquisition, speech and hearing science, brain imaging and computational linguistics. The renewed Centre will continue to bring together research projects across these areas, drawing on expertise in the departments of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Educational Studies and Computing.  However, its primary focus will be to advance research in the area of language development in children with hearing loss.

This is a great achievement for the Faculty of Human Sciences and testament to the excellent work undertaken by these centres to date. For more information, visit the webpages of CEPET and CLaS.