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Uppsala University 11<strong>KoF11</strong>A7. Comment on the department’s situation and actions in response to the previousresearch assessment, KoF07, both with respect to decisions taken on university orfaculty level, and to the department’s own decisions. Also, comment on other effectsor implications of KoF07 for the department.i) The department’s situation and actions with respect to decisions taken onuniversity or faculty level, as well as other effects of KoF07The Department received, overall, very positive evaluations in the KoF 2007 report. Forexample, the most comprehensive research program of the Department, the Uppsala ConflictData Program (UCDP), was pointed out as a “flagship” for the university. Positiveassessments like these contributed to the fact that Peace and Conflict Research became one ofthe university’s so-called profile areas of research. Another indirect consequence of KoF 2007was the Swedish Government’s recommendation that the UCDP should get secure funding,which resulted in an allocation of resources, 3 million SEK, per year in direct funding fromthe university to the program. A third consequence of KoF 2007 was the report’s criticalassessment of a lack of more stable funding for post docs, which led to the establishment of anumber of post doctoral positions at the university (so-called KoF-lektorat). The Departmentreceived one of these. The holder of the position, Kristine Höglund, has since 2007contributed to the Department’s research environment in many respects, such as publishingone monograph and numerous articles. Höglund is also the co-editor of the above mentionedbook on methods in peace research and has supervised a handful PhD-students. In short,Höglund is one of the most successful recruitments the Department has done since 2007.ii)The department’s situation and actions with respect to the department’s owndecisionsThe Department has, in accordance with the recommendations in KoF 2007, invested “in thedevelopment of a coherent and intellectually challenging agenda.” By initiating several newresearch programs, of which East Asian Peace and Governance, Conflict and Peace Buildingare the largest, the Department has strived to have an agenda of research that is both coherentand diversified from an empirical, theoretical, and methodological point of view.The Department has been able to constantly improve its quality of research, consistentwith its own research strategy (published on the Department’s web site). Steps to attain thishave consisted, for example, of having a regular research seminar that is very publication2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0
Uppsala University 12<strong>KoF11</strong>oriented. Moreover, researchers and PhD candidates have been encouraged to co-authoracademic papers and to cooperate within projects and research groups, which has yielded asteady increase of publication output. The Department of Peace and Conflict Research iscurrently the best published department per capita at the Faculty of Social Science in terms ofpeer-reviewed articles and books.The Department has been able to make these achievements in spite of limited corefunding. Although much externally funded research is an indication of academic success,externally funded projects are rarely longer than three years at a time, meaning fairly insecurecareers for the promising young researchers on whom the future success of the Departmentdepends.In conclusion, the Department is vulnerable concerning its future ability to maintainexcellence in all three areas of research. In particular, limited core funding from the SocialScience Faculty has resulted in a continued problem with recruiting and retaining excellentyoung researchers on a tenure track basis.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0
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