In the classroom, students will meet active and tenured researchers. These researchers have different academic profiles and conduct research within different disciplines of the degree programmes. The links between the researchers' research areas and those of the degree programmes are described in the annual staffing plans.
The researchers and the other academic staff are organised in groups of teaching staff affiliated with the degree programme(s) on which they teach. The groups of teaching staff are usually physically located together and meet regularly to discuss the content teaching and coordinate the academic organisation of teaching.
As teaching is usually held in buildings close to the offices of the groups of teaching staff, students can meet their lecturers outside the classroom as well, and it is always possible to book an appointment to talk to one of the lecturers.
At Arts, we have initiated work to identify different forms of research-integrated teaching to include students in research projects. The aim of this is to strengthen the students' own competences, their in-depth knowledge and their abilities to engage in research collaboration.
Work done by academic staff primarily involves research and teaching. The head of school carries out research reviews in order to gain an objective basis for deciding whether members of staff are living up to expectations in terms of their research. This review focuses primarily on the work that can be measured in the research publications registered in the PURE system.
Academic staff at Arts are expected to produce at least two annual academic peer-reviewed works or major works of a similar size, viewed over a three-year period: articles in peer-reviewed journals/anthologies, other academic work for publishers involving peer reviews, or major academic reports.
The review covers publications that are registered in PURE as peer-reviewed contributions. The definition of ‘peer-reviewed’ used here is the definition set down the Ministry of Education’s steering committee for the system of bibliometric indicators.
The individual researcher’s output must be viewed in relation to their other tasks in connection with research, talent development, education and knowledge exchange.
Minimum teaching hours covered by academic staff is indicator 6c in the quality assurance system and shows the percentage of scheduled contact hours covered by academic staff (teaching and supervision hours) in relation to the shared minimum number of 168 hours per semester at Bachelor’s degree level and 112 hours per semester at Master's degree level. The calculation is based on semesters with a full course programme. Semesters with thesis period, Bachelor’s project and compulsory project placement/compulsory work placement are therefore not included.
The objective of staffing plans is to clearly demonstrate the proportion of teaching by researchers on our degree programmes. The staffing plans are included in the data packages as supplementary and qualifying appendices to indicator 6c (the proportion of teaching by researchers), and they cover the same period as the indicators. They are also closely related to indicator 3 "Scheduled hours" in the quality assurance system, which is based on data from Timetælleren (teaching hour calculator). Together with the other data, the staffing plans therefore form the basis for the annual status review discussions. The staffing plans help to show the proportion of teaching by researchers on the degree programmes, and ticks beside the academic staff in the subject areas illustrate the proportion of teaching by researchers on individual subjects and on the degree programme as a whole.
