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QUALITY AND RENEWAL 2007 An overall evaluation of research at Uppsala University 2006/2007 Editors: Joseph Nordgren Lars Engwall Anne-Sofie Gräslund Per Andersson Maivor Sjölund Marcus Agåker © Uppsala University 2007 ISBN 978-91-633-1549-7 urn:nbn:se-2007-36 (http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se-2007-36) Printed by: Edita, Västerås, 2007 Contents Preface ................................................ 9 Executive summary ....................................... 11 Part I: The Project 1 Introduction .......................................... 17 2 The Context of KoF07 .................................. 19 2.1 The Swedish system in brief ......................... 19 2.2 Uppsala University in brief .......................... 21 2.3 Bibliography ..................................... 23 3 The KoF07 Project ..................................... 25 3.1 Introduction ...................................... 25 3.2 Project organization ................................ 26 3.3 Defining units for evaluation ......................... 29 3.4 Evaluation package ................................ 30 3.5 Selecting experts .................................. 32 3.6 Site visits ........................................ 33 3.7 Meeting with panel chairs ........................... 34 3.8 Bibliometric study ................................. 34 Part II: Summary of the results 4 Expert panel evaluation ................................. 39 4.1 General observations ............................... 39 4.2 Humanities and Social Sciences ....................... 50 4.3 Science and Technology ............................. 68 4.4 Medicine and Pharmacy ............................. 81 5 Bibliometric study ..................................... 87 5.1 Introduction ...................................... 87 5.2 Methodology ..................................... 87 5.3 Results .......................................... 88 Part III: Panel Reports Panel Reports ........................................... 97 6 Panel 1 .............................................. 99 6.1 Department of Information Science, Division of Statistics ... 99 6.2 Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Science ....... 105 7 Panel 2 .............................................. 111 7.1 Introductory remarks ............................... 111 7.2 Department of Business Studies ....................... 111 7.3 Department of Social and Economic Geography ........... 121 7.4 Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) ........... 126 8 Panel 3 .............................................. 131 8.1 Units for evaluation ................................ 131 8.2 General remarks ................................... 131 8.3 Department of Sociology ............................ 133 8.4 Division of Media and Communications Science, Department of Information Science .............................. 135 8.5 Unit of Food Sciences and Nutrition, Department of Domestic Science ......................................... 137 8.6 Department of Education ............................ 140 8.7 Department of Curriculum Studies ..................... 142 8.8 Department of Studies in Education, Culture and Media, Fac- ulty of Educational Sciences ......................... 146 9 Panel 4 .............................................. 149 9.1 Introduction ...................................... 149 9.2 Department of Government .......................... 150 9.3 Department of Peace and Conflict Research .............. 152 9.4 Department of Eurasian Studies ....................... 154 9.5 Conclusions ...................................... 156 10 Panel 5 .............................................. 159 10.1 Department of Psychology ........................... 159 11 Panel 6 .............................................. 165 11.1 Introductory remarks ............................... 165 11.2 Department of English .............................. 166 11.3 Department of Linguistics and Philology ................ 169 11.4 Department of Modern Languages ..................... 173 11.5 Department of Scandinavian Languages ................. 178 12 Panel 7 .............................................. 181 12.1 Department of Archaeology and Ancient History: Egyptology 182 12.2 Department of English: Celtic Studies .................. 184 12.3 Department of Linguistics and Philology: Latin ........... 185 12.4 Department of Linguistics and Philology: Greek and Byzan- tine Studies ...................................... 187 12.5 Department of Linguistics and Philology: Indology and Com- parative Indo-European Linguistics .................... 189 12.6 Department of Linguistics and Philology: Assyriology ...... 191 12.7 Department of Linguistics and Philology: Semitic Languages . 193 12.8 Department of Scandinavian Languages: Runology, Early Scandinavian Languages and Onomastics ................ 196 4 13 Panel 8 .............................................. 199 13.1 General Observations and Recommendations of Panel 8 ..... 199 13.2 The Centre for Gender Research ...................... 200 13.3 Section for Textile Studies ........................... 203 13.4 Department of Art history ........................... 204 13.5 Department of Literature ............................ 206 13.6 Department for Musicology .......................... 208 13.7 Department of Philosophy ........................... 211 14 Panel 9 .............................................. 215 14.1 Introduction ...................................... 215 14.2 Department of Economic History ...................... 216 14.3 Department of Archaeology & Ancient History ........... 218 14.4 Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology ....... 220 14.5 Department of History .............................. 222 14.6 Centre for Multiethnic Research & The Programme for Holo- caust and Genocide Studies .......................... 224 14.7 Department of ALM (Archive Science, Library and Informa- tion Science, and Museum & Cultural Heritage Studies) ..... 226 14.8 Department of the History of Science and Ideas ........... 228 14.9 General conclusions ................................ 230 15 Panel 10 ............................................. 233 15.1 Department of Law ................................ 233 16 Panel 11 ............................................. 239 16.1 Faculty of Theology ................................ 239 17 Panel 12 ............................................. 249 17.1 Department of Mathematics .......................... 249 17.2 Division of Scientific Computing ...................... 253 17.3 Centre for Image Analysis ........................... 256 18 Panel 13 ............................................. 259 18.1 Physics and Astronomy ............................. 259 18.2 Department of Theoretical Physics ..................... 265 18.3 Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics .............. 267 18.4 Department of Neutron Research ...................... 275 18.5 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics ............. 276 18.6 Department of Physics .............................. 280 19 Panel 14 ............................................. 289 19.1 General assessment of the departments and units .......... 289 19.2 Department of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry ....... 289 19.3 Department of Photochemistry and Molecular science (FO- TOMOL) ........................................ 291 19.4 Department of Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry . 292 19.5 Department of Materials Chemistry .................... 295 19.6 Actions for successful development for Chemistry at UU .... 297 5 20 Panel 15 ............................................. 301 20.1 Department of Bioorganic Chemistry - IBK .............. 301 20.2 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology - ICM ......... 302 20.3 Department of Evolution, Genomics and Systematics - IEGS . 305 20.4 Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology - IFU . 309 20.5 Department of Ecology and Evolution - IEE .............. 311 20.6 The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinfomatics - LCB ............ 314 21 Panel 16 ............................................. 317 21.1 Department of Earth Sciences ........................ 317 22 Panel 17 ............................................. 345 22.1 Department of Engineering Sciences ................... 345 23 Panel 18 ............................................. 359 23.1 Department of Information Technology ................. 359 24 Panel 19 ............................................. 379 24.1 Research in the Faculty of Pharmacy ................... 379 24.2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences .............. 380 24.3 Department of Pharmacy ............................ 382 24.4 Department of Medicinal Chemistry .................... 384 25 Panel 20 ............................................. 387 25.1 Department of Medical Cell Biology ................... 387 25.2 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology ..... 391 26 Panel 21 ............................................. 401 26.1 Public Health and Caring Sciences ..................... 401 26.2 Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, overall evaluation ....................................... 401 26.3 Department of public health and caring sciences, specific units 404 26.4 Summary and general conclusions ..................... 416 27 Panel 22 ............................................. 421 27.1 Introduction ...................................... 421 27.2 Department of Women’s and Children’s Health ........... 423 27.3 Department of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology 425 27.4 Department of Surgical Sciences