Awards

Awards and Recognitions

  • University of Pretoria, Academic Excellence Award (2022)
  • AISSAC Lifelong Award (2021) AISSAC Website
  • Best Paper Award (2018): Marufu, Alex, Van der Merwe (2013) Building empathy for design thinking in e-Health: A Zimbabwean case study, Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-11235-6, CCIS vol 993, p189-205
  • Best Paper Award (2013): De Vries, Marne, Van der Merwe, Alta and Gerber, Aurona (2013). Towards an enterprise evolution contextualisation model. Proceedings of IEEE SMCS Enterprise Systems 2013 on IEEE Xplore, 7-8 November 2013, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Best Project (2007): At the Fifth Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW'07) I was a member of the group who was awarded with best project at the Summer School
  • Principal’s award for research (2005): In 2005 I received the UNISA Principal’s Award as best promising researcher.
  • Best paper(2003): In 2003, I presented a paper at the Fourth International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education based on my PhD work. This paper was selected as one of the best papers and published in the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science.

NRF Rating

2008: NRF C3 rating
2014: NRF C1 rating
2021: NRF B3 rating

Grants

I have been involved in the following grants and bursaries:

  • Bankseta Grant for Informatics students,
  • MidHub - A mathematical platform providing Math content to teachers,
  • InnXchange (2014-2015),
  • Mosaic2B, Mobile Empowerment (2014-2015),
  • ESEFA, 2013-2015
  • University of Pretoria: Programme for Academic Leadership (2013)
  • University of Pretoria: Knowledge Develop Fund 2013)
  • University of Pretoria: HERS-SA (2012)
  • NRF Incentive Funding (2010-2014)
  • NRF Knowledge Fields Development (Collaboration with Paula Kotze and Aurona Gerber (2010)).
  • CSIR Collaboration Grant (Collaboration between MEKE and NMMU (2010)).
  • NRF International Collaboration Fund : Switzerland (2008).
  • NRF Thuthuka funding (2003-2006, 2008-2009).