Review of the Research Institute for History and - Universiteit Utrecht

teaching pressures. Both the Media Studies group and the International History section schedule their teaching
in such a way, that faculty teaches in three out of four quarters, leaving one quarter to concentrate on
research. This strategy seems to be conducive to high levels of output.
Table B. 11B Academic publications, divided by tenured faculty research time (fte), at programme level,
1997-2004
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 average
Ancient and Medieval Culture
Cultural infrastructure and
14.08 19.01 15.32 12.90 16.59 10.44 9.62 11.69 13.71
Intellectual culture 14.01 11.65 10.47 6.53 8.73 9.13 12.63 7.16 10.04
Cultural Construction of Media 23.81 19.00 24.00 7.14 18.67 12.10 9.86 7.26 15.23
Arts, Culture and their Contexts 22.67 21.98 18.52 9.98 20.67 14.62 10.98 10.56 16.25
Art History 13.39 13.27 9.23 6.17 6.11 6.60 5.06 5.94 8.22
Literary Studies 10.57 7.42 8.00 5.93 8.09 9.46 7.74 6.85 8.01
Oriental Studies 15.81 8.73 10.53 11.23 13.68 8.46 13.30 7.80 11.19
International and Political History 12.62 14.77 12.98 11.44 12.40 10.20 18.48 12.65 13.19
Social and Economic History 28.52 18.97 16.67 20.48 16.21 22.48 21.46 18.54 20.41
Gender Studies 14.29 31.37 30.91 18.18 10.65 15.00 15.00 14.42 18.73
To stop the negative trend in output, the director of OGC, on behalf of the Faculty management, has negotiated
with the University Board a substantial fi nancial injection, of one million euro in both 2005-06 and
2006-07. This extra money will be used to hire teaching staff, and thus diminish the pressures on faculty’s
research time. As of September 2005, all tenured faculty should have one quarter (“block”) available for
research, which implies that the number of weeks teaching will be reduced from forty to thirty. Simultaneously,
all tenured faculty have been invited to provide specifi c information on their research plans and
the expected output over the coming years. These documents will be used to monitor in greater detail the
progress of individual research projects. The relief from the demands of teaching and the specifi cation of
research plans should help reverse the current trend of diminishing output. Meanwhile, OGC management
also encourages programme leaders to develop more common activities for their groups.
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