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Panel 3 – arts
During the evaluation period the staff has published a very high number
of publications. The productivity of the department is excellent in relation
to the number of researchers. The researchers publish mostly, on the one
hand, book chapters and on the other hand book reviews and popular
science publications. The latter is a very valuable task, but there should
perhaps be little more articles in refereed journals and also monographs
(books). The best publications represented are mostly written in Swedish,
but the themes of these books are in most cases international and highly
interesting. The relevance of the publications and the research projects are
high both within the discipline and in relation to society at large. Some
scholars have an exceptional high publishing activity and several scholars
have published a lot in well esteemed fora.
The department is highly respected. Several researchers of the department
have got assignments to be evaluators and some editors in national and
international contexts. The vice-presidency of CISH is also a strong
evidence of the reputation of the department.
The research quality of the department is excellent.
6.4 Collaboration
The department does not write much about the international collaboration
in concrete terms, but the joint-publications and the research visits
shows that is it lively. The department has also the only chair in Sweden
specialized in international history. The comparative approach to e.g.
Nordic history has been one of the specialties of the department.
The collaboration within the department is working well and the organization
of the research seems to be systematically analyzed: it means that
there is room for both projects and for individual researchers. “Network”
is the key word in this department (see also the Advanced Seminar in
below). The vitality of the department can thus be saved and developed in
the future too because the “critical mass” is sufficient and new promising
researchers rises frequently.
The department has been interested in the multi- and interdisciplinary
research both at the individual level and within the projects. However,
the collaboration within the faculty of humanities should be strengthening
even more, because there are several departments and/or disciplines,
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