University of Jyväskylä Research Evaluation 2000–2004 General Results – Recommendations Dr. Antoaneta Folea Research Evaluation Coordinator Research and.

University of JyväskyläUniversity of Jyväskylä

Research Evaluation 2000–2004Research Evaluation 2000–2004

General Results – General Results – RecommendationsRecommendations

Dr. Antoaneta FoleaDr. Antoaneta Folea

Research Evaluation CoordinatorResearch Evaluation Coordinator

Research and Careers DepartmentResearch and Careers Department

[email protected]@adm.jyu.fi

2/20052006

General Results – Recommendations General Results – Recommendations

Research StrategyResearch Strategy

PublicationsPublications

Doctoral, postdoctoral trainingDoctoral, postdoctoral training

International visibility, European fundingInternational visibility, European funding

2/20052006

General results – ResearchGeneral results – Research

Overall, high standard of the research community – many points of excellence and great promise

The core research is highly original and innovativeoriginal and innovative

There are multidisciplinary emergent fieldsemergent fields, research areas at the frontier of knowledgefrontier of knowledge

Research groups: excellentexcellent, well established as national and international high-level contributors

The research involves cutting-edge technologycutting-edge technology

Very high level of equipment and infrastructureequipment and infrastructure for research

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A research strategy at departmental level

is missing

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General results: Research strategyGeneral results: Research strategy

have clear realistic goals

have innovative vision

are well integrated into a common mission of the department

work together to develop a stronger research synergy

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Impressive number of publications in Impressive number of publications in Finnish and international journals, Finnish and international journals,

conference proceedings, monographs, etc.conference proceedings, monographs, etc.

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General results: Doctoral trainingGeneral results: Doctoral training

Overall, the extent and quality of doctoral training is good

Good interaction with supervisors

Excellent infrastructure for research

Support for participating in conferences

2006

Recommendations: Research strategyRecommendations: Research strategy

Too many research topics; these should be reduced and more reduced and more focusedfocused More international networkinginternational networking at departmental level More formal mechanisms for identifying and balancing prioritiesidentifying and balancing priorities Optimize time and resourcesOptimize time and resources (better planning of time devoted to teaching, administrative and research tasks). More synergy between synergy between teaching and research activitiesteaching and research activities should be aimed at Develop continuous self-assessment and evaluationself-assessment and evaluation procedures and international benchmarks The research activities and results should be made known made known publicly, raising awarenesspublicly, raising awareness inside and outside the scientific community Faculties and departments should have web pagesweb pages with information about their research, which is vital to participate in the international community

2006

Recommendations: Publication strategyRecommendations: Publication strategy

Clear publication strategyClear publication strategy at the level of each Faculty and Department

The researchers must publish (publish more) in top-ranked top-ranked international journalsinternational journals

More co-publishing with international partnersco-publishing with international partners

There should be introduced a clear and transparent publications performance measurement systempublications performance measurement system; this would enable the researchers to clearly put more weight on internationally recognized high-quality publications

2006

Recommendations: Doctoral training –Recommendations: Doctoral training –Postdoctoral activitiesPostdoctoral activities

Admissions strategyAdmissions strategy should be implemented - a greater a greater selectivityselectivity in the choice of graduate students

A more formal system of monitoring progressformal system of monitoring progress might be helpful in reducing completion times

The PhD students should be provided with full financial full financial coverage of their 4-yearcoverage of their 4-year doctoral studies

Faculties should organize seminars and coursesseminars and courses for all their PhD students, where students can develop skills, present their work, develop both their future employability and their generic research competences

Strategies to guarantee continuity in supervisioncontinuity in supervision research and teaching during transition periods of staff should be in place

2006

Recommendations: Doctoral trainingRecommendations: Doctoral trainingPostdoctoral activitiesPostdoctoral activities

More international studentsinternational students should be attracted, and European funding schemes (e.g. Erasmus, Socrates) should be used

General concern about overproduction of PhD’soverproduction of PhD’s. For this reason, Faculties should maintain high standardsmaintain high standards so that the University of Jyväskylä is branded by the excellence of students and the excellent research the students produce

The Faculties and the Departments should track the careers of doctoral track the careers of doctoral graduatesgraduates and maintain close contacts with them to evaluate long-term performance

The structure of all of the research teams suffers from a common weakness: the absence of post-docabsence of post-doc researchers. For this, financial financial mechanismsmechanisms should be put in place at national levelat national level

2006

Recommendations: Internationalization – Recommendations: Internationalization – European fundingEuropean funding

In order to gain international visibility and recognition in the international community :

A continuous development of a clear set of research goalsclear set of research goals and objectives for the individual groups

A dedication of a critical masscritical mass of researchers to the accomplishment of each of the research goals

Targeting high quality refereed journalshigh quality refereed journals for research publications

The development of increasing international collaboration international collaboration with leading academics and expertswith leading academics and experts in the critical research areas

2006

Recommendations: Internationalization –Recommendations: Internationalization –European fundingEuropean funding

In order to build long-term collaboration relationships and to obtain continuous feedback, input, and new ideas, the number of international visiting academicsinternational visiting academics needs to be greatly greatly increasedincreased

Faculties and Departments must attract more European fundsmore European funds

The University should provide assistance and supportassistance and support through the European funding process

2006

More information:More information:

http://www.jyu.fi/kokonaisarviointi/http://www.jyu.fi/kokonaisarviointi/