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Department
Peer-rev. Papers/
Academic Staff
PhDs Produced/
Professor
Employed
PhD Students/
Academic Staff
Total PhD
Students/
Academic
Staff
Architect. 0.8 0.3 (0.3) 0.6 1.5
Bldg&Env. 1.3 0.5 (0.5) 0.5 1.4
Tech.&Soc. 0.8 0.3 (0.7) 0.9 1.6
Des.Sci. 1.5 ** 0.5 (0.5) 0.5 1.4
Constr.Sci. 0.8 ** 0 (0.4) 0.2 2.3
Electr.Meas. * 1.0 (1.0) 0.2 1.4
IIIEE 2.3 0.5 (0.7) 1.1 3.1
* No exact information was available
** For the whole department
The table indicates that, after taking the human resources into consideration,
the publication activity has been high in the IIIEE and Design
Science but somewhat smaller in Architecture and Built Environment,
Technology and Society, and Construction Science. No doctorates were
produced in Construction Science in 2007 but the situation has been
better in the other years of the evaluation period. However, this is an
alarming signal because the department also suffers from the lack of PhD
students. IIIEE has been active in doctoral student recruitment. The total
numbers of doctoral students/academic staff are rather low for all the
other departments except IIIEE. This allows good supervision of doctoral
studies but, on the other hand, this will limit the research output.
LU has a new strategic plan emphasizing the development of multidisciplinary
environments and cross-border collaboration. Also, the Faculty of
Engineering has recently written its own strategic plan which is consistent
with the plan of the university but it does not describe its contribution to
the ”meta-areas”. On the other hand, the faculty level strategy only rarely
appears clearly in the future plans of the individual departments.
The recruitment problems faced in the Faculty of Engineering were
admitted in the background material. This might be one reason why
recruitment of female students and staff has been seen as important, with
the long-term goal of achieving gender equality, which, of course, is a
worthy goal.
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