Research evaluations 2005 to 2021

Research evaluations 2005 to 2021

The Ģ��ֱ�� has carried out research evaluations in 2005, 2010, 2018 and 2021. On this page you will find the final reports of the evaluations.

Mid-term research evaluation 2021

The objective of the mid-term research evaluation was to determine the implementation stage of development actions in their research development plans that the units have drew up based on Research Evaluation 2018. The ultimate goal was to promote successful implementation of the development plans and consequently, to maintain an encouraging and facilitating environment for research at the Ģ��ֱ��. The mid-term evaluation gave the evaluation units a possibility to revise their development plans by providing information on what has done so far, successes, challenges that implementation has encountered, and adjustments of the original development plan. The internal peer review gave the units a possibility to share good practices. The evaluation period was 2018–2020, from which background material was compiled to support the evaluation.

The final report contains the main findings of the research evaluation, description of the evaluation process and overview of research conducted at the University.

The evaluation units were defined as they were in the research development plans 2018. The evaluation units were (in alphabetical order):

Centre for Applied Language Studies
Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Department of Chemistry
Department of History and Ethnology
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
Department of Physics
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Faculty of Education and Psychology & Finnish Institute for Educational Research
Faculty of Information Technology
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences
Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics
Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius

The peer review was conducted by eight groups of two, whose members include the Vice Dean responsible for research and innovation or the head of the independent institute (Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Finnish Institute for Educational Research) as well as one peer reviewer from the faculty/independent institute. The peer reviewers came from a Faculty/independent institute, which was not the same as the faculty/independent institute of the evaluation unit. For further information, see the final report below.

Mid-term research evaluation 2021.pdf

Research evaluation 2018

In 2018, the Ģ��ֱ�� carried out the research evaluation that covered the period of 2010–2017. The focus of the evaluation was on the attributes of the research environment that are conducive in producing research of high quality and renewal rather than on the research performance. The research evaluation did not grade the evaluation units or compare the units within the University to each other. Its ultimately goal was instead to recognise strengths and development needs, and thereby to strengthen the quality of the research at the Ģ��ֱ��. The findings of the evaluation were used in the preparation of the University’s research development programme.

The evaluation consisted of three main elements: units’ self-evaluation reports, panel report, and units’ development plans. For the self-evaluation report, the units completed a questionnaire, which was adopted with modification from the questionnaire used by the University of Uppsala in its research environment evaluation (). The questionnaire covered a variety of processes and characteristics that are relevant to the quality of research environment, such as recruitment, research leadership, academic culture, infrastructure, external research funding, collaboration, and publication. Self-evaluation was followed by an external evaluation carried out by the international 8-member evaluation panel, which visited the Ģ��ֱ�� in September 2018. After the visit, the panel wrote a joint report covering recommendations to each evaluation unit based on the self-evaluation reports, the background material, and visit to the University. Each unit, in turn, drew up a development plan where they described measures they are going to take to put the panel’s recommendations into practice.

The final report includes the overview by the evaluation panel, the complete panel reports on each evaluation unit, and the key areas of improvement, which the evaluation units identified. The report contains also a review of the University’s accomplishments as an academic research institution during the evaluation period 2010–2017 and development actions at the university level. The evaluation process is described in the final report.

For the evaluation, the University was grouped into 11 evaluation units, which were:

Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Department of History and Ethnology & Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
Department Language and Communication Studies & Centre for Applied Language Studies
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences
Faculty of Education and Psychology & Finnish Institute for Educational Research
Faculty of Information Technology
Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Physics & Department of Chemistry
Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius

Chair

Sue Scott, Honorary Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, UK

Panel members

Marcel van Aken, Dean, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Colin Boreham, Director, Institute for Sport and Health, University College Dublin, Ireland
Felicity A. Huntingford, Emeritus Professor of Functional Ecology, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK
Herman de Jong, Dean, Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Matthew K. O. Lee, Vice-President (Development & External Relations), Chair Professor of Information Systems and E-Commerce, City University of Hong Kong
Anne Pauwels, Professor of Sociolinguistics, Department of Linguistics, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University of London, UK
Marja-Liisa Riekkola, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland

JYU Research Evaluation Report 2018.pdf

Research evaluation 2010

The research evaluation 2010 aimed to evaluate the quality of research, realisation of research strategy, and development of the University as an international research university in years 2005-2009. The external evaluation was carried out by seven international panels, which consisted of 40 members in total. Each of the panel evaluated one of the seven Faculties at the University.

The final Research Evaluation report 2010 contains the findings of the research evaluation.

JYU Research Evaluation Report 2010.pdf

Research evaluation 2005

The first overall evaluation of research activities at the Ģ��ֱ�� was carried out in 2005. It coved research performed from 2000 to 2004 and aimed to provide background information to the strategic planning. The evaluation was conducted by 7 panels (one panel per a faculty), consisting of 3-9 members. The final report of the evaluation () is available at the Jyväskylä University Library.