The research board

The research board is a preparatory and advisory body for the Vice-Chancellor. Its main purpose is to handle strategic research and collaboration matters and thereby promote the development of research of a high-quality, international standard.

Another role of the research board is to stimulate internal and external collaboration and help to make visible the significance and relevance of the research done at the university.

The board strives to promote appropriate and efficient use of research infrastructure through collaboration across faculty and departmental boundaries and through national and international collaboration with other higher education institutions. The Vice-Chancellor can decide whether the board is to handle and be responsible for other matters of relevance for the university's research.

The research board's assignments

• Initiate, monitor and prepare interfaculty strategic research matters and collaboration matters that are of relevance for research within the university.
• Monitor and actively support the internationalisation of research.
• Initiate and support measures to promote the development and assurance of the quality of the research done at the university. This includes the perspectives of equality, sustainable development and research ethics.
• Promote the efficient coordination and development of the research infrastructure within the university, in Sweden and abroad.

Composition, structure and mandate period

The research board is made up of representatives from the faculties who have been elected by the faculty boards.

In addition, the board has a chairperson appointed by the Vice-Chancellor. The Vice-Chancellor can also appoint other persons as members of the board. The Vice-Chancellor elects one of the members of the board as deputy chairperson.

Students are entitled to have three representatives on the board. The representatives are elected by the students.

Trade union representatives have the right to attend meetings and to speak. The mandate period for board members is three years. The mandate period for student representatives is one year.

Times and dates for meetings 2021

• 2021-03-02, 9-12
• 2021-03-30, 9-12
• 2021-05-04, 9-12
• 2021-06-08, 9-12
• 2021-09-07, 9-12
• 2021-10-05, 9-12
• 2021-11-09, 9-12
• 2021-12-07, 9-12

 Times and dates for meetings 2020

• 2020-02-18, 9-12
• 2020-03-17, 9-12
• 2020-04-22, 14-16 (joint meeting with the Board of Education's committee for PhD education)
• 2020-05-05, 9-12
• 2020-06-02, 9-12
• 2020-09-08, 9-12
• 2020-10-06, 9-12
• 2020-11-03, 9-12
• 2020-12-01, 9-12

Times and dates for meetings 2019

• 2019-02-26, 9-12
• 2019-04-09, 9-12
• 2019-05-28, 9-12
• 2019-06-11, 13-16

• 2019-09-03, 9-12
• 2019-10-15, 9-12
• 2019-10-21, 13-16 (cancelled)
• 2019-12-03, 9-12