As should be evident from the above, research will constitute the primary activity of the Centre for the Future of Work at the University of Pretoria. Furthermore, in alignment with the University’s 2025 strategic plan, the Centre will focus on strengthening the University of Pretoria’s research and international profile by:

Serving as a hub for collaborative convergence research through transdisciplinary approaches, with research projects and activities involving a wide community of academics, students and employers in South Africa, the rest of Africa and further afield;

Engaging in and facilitating partnerships with private and public sector employers and labour as contributing stakeholders to provide various forms of mutually beneficial collaboration, including the co-creation of curricula (both formal and informal); and also driving efforts based on the Centre’s research to assist employers to prepare for the rapid changes that will characterise the future world of work;

Recruiting researchers, research associates, postgraduate students and post-doctoral fellows with appropriate research skills and a demonstrable interest in research on the future of work

• Research grants (in recent months there have been an increase in calls for proposals on the future of work by a range of philanthropic and science foundations)
• Contract research (for the private and public sector)
• Research reports (bi-annual or annual)
• Workshops and short learning programmes for public and private sector entities
• Commercialisation of software products developed by the Centre
• Corporate sponsorships