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Panel 5 – BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE
procedures for researchers to seek major international funding, e.g. from
the EU 7th Framework Programme, or the newly established European
Research Council (ERC). It also seems important that all Divisions have
enough senior researchers to supervise and guide young PhD candidates
and postdocs, also when it comes to grant proposal writing.
Taken together, the Department is given an overall rating of ‘very good’,
with the Division of Clinical Psychology rated as ‘excellent’ The key senior
members of the Division of Clinical Psychology, Lars Gunnar Lundh and
Etzel Cardena have very good citation figures, as listed in the ISI Web of
Science. They have also published in high quality journals within their
field and have contributed significantly to psychotherapy research in
Sweden. The Divison of Neuropsychology comes close to excellence, and
especially if the current trend of publications in high prestige journals,
like the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Cerebral Cortex, is also
upheld in the future.
1.2 Research infrastructure
The Department of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences
at Lund University. The Department employs a total academic staff of
50 as per March 2007, corresponding to 42 full-time equivalents. The
mean age is 52 years, with 42% women among the academic staff. The
Department carries out comprehensive research, teaching and clinical
activity. The total number of students reaches ca. 1300 yearly. The most
comprehensive course of studies offered is the Master’s Programme in
Professional Psychology, a five-year program. The department offers 30
free-standing courses each year at basic and advanced levels. The doctoral
program comprises a total of 240 Swedish credits (the equivalent of 4 years
full-time study). The Department has 50 doctoral students. Research
at the Department of Psychology is organized into 6 divisions, Division
of Clinical Psychology, Division of Cognition, Division of Developmental
Psychology, Division of Neuropsychology, Division of Personality and
Social Psychology, Division of Work- and Organizational Psychology.
1.3 Collaboration
The Department has witnessed a welcome broadening of research
activity during the last decade, with an increase in inter-departmental
collaboration between the different Divisions. Researchers at the
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