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   Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 19:13:58 JST Martin Rundkvist

   Learned something that suddenly makes my career make a lot more sense. There is no mechanism in Swedish higher ed that punishes a university department for a low research output. Only for a low student throughput.

   #academia

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     Janne Moren (jannem@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 05:06:08 JST Janne Moren

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     Yes, there are dysfunctional places around. I've heard various horror stories from Swedish and other universities.

     In general though, a researcher and a department needs external funds to have a functioning research program, post-docs and so on. And one of the major factors for getting a grant is your publication record in the subfield.

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     Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 05:06:08 JST Martin Rundkvist

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     @jannem Vid svenska högskolor är forskning ett tillval som man får försöka finansiera själv. Om en institution inte sköter undervisningen blir man däremot nedlagd.

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     Janne Moren (jannem@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 05:06:09 JST Janne Moren

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     The punishment is lack of external funding. But if the department doesn't rely at all on funding agencies for their operating income then that's not effective of course.

     In the sciences external funding is important enough that a history of consistently getting external funds counts higher than even your publications.

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     Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 05:06:09 JST Martin Rundkvist

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     • Janne Moren

     @jannem When I was in grad school my department had no external funding. Our situation was extreme, caused by our Chair's debilitating alcoholism.