Researchers in the department  are involved in a number of MeerKAT Large Surveys,as well as many Open Time projects.

•  LADUMA : Looking at the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array - An ultra-deep survey of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe (Blyth, Baker, Holwerda, et al).
•  MIGHTEE : The MeerKAT International GHz Tuned Extragalactic Exploration Survey - Deep continuum observations of the earliest radio galaxies (Jarvis & Taylor, et al).
•  ThunderKAT : The Hunt for Dynamic and Explosive Radio Transients with MeerKAT - Observations of X-ray binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, Gamma ray bursts, and supernovae, plus new types of transient radio sources (Fender, Woudt, et al).
•  MHONGOOSE : MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects - Observing Southern Emitters - Investigations of different types of galaxies; dark matter and the cosmic web (De Blok, et al).

The scientific objectives of these surveys, and other proposed MeerKAT projects, have been described in the proceedings of the "MeerKAT Science: On the Pathway to the SKA" conference (25-27 May 2016, Stellenbosch), published in 2018 by the Proceedings of Science (PoS).