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"I am glad the group's mandate is clarified, and I look forward to following the process further," says Dean Anne Julie Semb.
The Mandate
The working group is asked to:
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Map the background for the establishment of centers at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Explain the main differences between a center, a department, and a section.
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Explain the personnel, legal, strategic, and economic consequences of center organization, including the financing of research, researcher education, and education.
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Assess the added value of organizing parts of the operations as a center.
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Assess the conditions for center organization to strengthen the faculty’s ability to fulfill its core tasks and achieve long-term strategic goals.
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Assess what is needed for a center to gain the status of a department.
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Obtain consultative statements from all underlying units and centers at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Prepare a proposal for a common center policy for the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The composition of the working group was approved by the faculty board and will be led by external board representative Troels ?stegaard S?rensen. ?stergaard S?rensen is a former dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. Dean Anne Julie Semb believes it is appropriate for ?stergaard S?rensen to lead the working group.
"Troels is very competent, and given that this task comes from the faculty board, it is fitting that a board member leads the work," says Semb.
Broadly Composed Working Group
The working group shall represent the diversity of the Faculty of Social Sciences and consists of:
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Troels ?stergaard S?rensen, external representative on the faculty board (leader)
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Espen R?ysamb, head of research at the Department of Psychology and former head of PROMENTA
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Cecilie Wingerei Lilleheil, union representative in the Norwegian Association of Researchers and representative for the union
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Thorgeir Kolshus, head of the Department of Social Anthropology
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Anniken Hagelund, head of the Department of Sociology and Human Geography
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Inger-Johanne Ullern, office manager at TIK Center for Technology, Innovation, and Culture
Faculty Director Gudleik Grimstad will be the secretary of the working group.
The working group is additionally supplemented by Mari Gakkestad, the principal safety delegate at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
"This is a working group that will be well capable of investigating this based on the mandate. I am very glad that we will be investigating center policy, as we see that there are continually being formed new centers of various types at UiO overall and at the faculty," continues Semb.
Ensuring Input and Involvement
To ensure that the faculty's employees are informed about the work along the way and have the opportunity to provide input, a plan has been developed for this.
"Through the time and communication plan, we will make it predictable for the employees when they receive information and make them aware of the opportunities to provide input to the working group. Our goal is for this to take place in an orderly and predictable manner," concludes the dean.