Two Oceans Graduate Institute is committed to the continuous professional development of its own staff and to their participation in research as an ongoing component of their careers. It is an institutional imperative that research, as the scholarly act and process of knowledge creation, should inform teaching and learning in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

The institution guides and motivates academic staff members to execute their teaching and research in a local, regional and international higher education context in the best interest of researched based teaching and learning. The institutional Research Policy  emphasizes a specific focus on the continued development of postgraduate research capacity and output. Staff members are guided towards the implementation of relevant research methodologies in education as a contribution to the production of researched based knowledge in education.

The research profiles of lecturers at the Two Oceans Graduate Institute signify the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning in a variety of educational contexts and fields. The vision of the institution is to develop through its cohort of academics, research designs and solutions as a contribution to the educational needs and challenges in the South African context and beyond.