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Doctor of Research & Learning
(D.RL) - Data Science
Specialisations
Government • National Statistics • Multilateral
Private Sector • Finance • Consulting
NGOs • Development • Food Security
Organisational Database Design & Development
Equips learners to design, build, and manage databases that serve real organisational needs
Course Focus
★ DLeading organisational database strategy, emerging paradigms, and institutional standards
Research Strand
Establishing institutional research data infrastructure and sector-wide data publication standards
Specialisation Context
A - Policy
Setting national database and data sovereignty standards; advising the government on data architecture
B - Business
Shaping enterprise data strategy and advising boards on data as a strategic organisational asset
C — Livelihoods
Leading the design of continent-wide ecosystems for livelihoods data and open data platforms
Technical Learning Topics - by Specialisation
- Emerging paradigms for national data infrastructure - graph and vector databases
- National institutional data strategy and standards-setting
- Data sovereignty legislation and cross-border legal frameworks
- Open government data publication and FAIR data principles
- AI-native database systems for national strategic evaluation
- Database governance at the national institutional level
- Research data management for continental statistical systems
- Knowledge graph design for government intelligence systems
- Strategic interoperability frameworks for public sector data
- Leading national data architecture reviews and advisory
Assessment Tasks
Produce a strategic database and research data management white paper with sector-wide applicability.
Software & Tools
Neo4j, InfluxDB, Pinecone, Snowflake, Alation, Zenodo, Figshare
AI Applications
Strategic evaluation of AI-native databases; leading AI data governance at the institutional level