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Panel 7 – ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (LUSEM)
9.9 Overall assessment
Research
Good / Insufficient
Collaboration Good
Research/teaching Good
Future plans Poor
Overall assessment Good
This small Unit has performed modestly over the period of the assessment,
and seems to have difficulty in making the necessary strategic
choices. Its recent growth speaks in its favour, but its relationship with
the much larger CIRCLE (in which some staff participate) can be seen as
providing both opportunities and threats.
10. The Centre for East
and South-East Asian Studies
10.1 Unit Description
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies was established in
1996, to stimulate multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and
education, about the region particularly in the social sciences, economics
and the humanities. Over the last five years the Centre has almost
doubled in personnel size and budget. Personnel working in the Centre
are normally affiliated to traditional departments so that it is difficult to
give reliable and meaningful data on personnel structure and financing.
Nonetheless four full time equivalent (fte) academic staff and nine other
fte:s are recorded. The Centre is evaluated in both Panels 6 and 7.
Research at the Centre is organized in four research clusters (Asian
Capitalism; Gender Studies; Law, Justice and Human Rights; and Religion
and Society). The Centre teaches a research masters program and
regularly provides two-year post-doctoral fellowships to younger scholars
from around the world. There are currently six other externally funded
scholars in the Centre.
10.2 Research infrastructure
The Centre’s Asia Library, established in 1999 is the foremost library of
its kind in Scandinavia.
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