Researchers may make suggestions for adding new research issues. These additions should represent critical input areas to address problems or opportunities in the identified focus area. Proposed research may be either self-initiated or reactive Multiple entry points to the focus areas will be allowed, in other words a single researcher, or a particular research team that could make contributions to more than one focus area or research issue will have the freedom to do so and thus submit more than one research proposal. Enable the South African community to benefit from research conducted throughout the world. The sections that follow outline the focus areas in terms of the rationale, aims and high-level research issues that have been identified for each of them.
Applied research is also original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge.
Research utilising more than one recognised discipline. Research falling between disciplines, not addressed by any recognised discipline.