Research at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

The following document describes the expectations of senior lecturers, associate professors and professors at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The guidelines were approved by the faculty board in September 2023.

Guidelines regarding expectations_of senior lecturers, associate professors, and professors

Call for funding for research excellence 2025

The Faculty Board has decided to announce funding for research excellence, to promote research at the faculty and provide more opportunities for the faculty’s prominent researchers.

Successful applications should make clear the applicant’s contribution to high-quality research that interacts with the creation of complete academic environments and dynamic knowledge environments (Reg. no: 2017/7636-1.1). Such contribution is evidenced by success with external applications and quality publications, or the equivalent for artistic research, and it is precisely this that is sought after.

Permanent senior lecturers, associate professors, and professors that have a position at the faculty of at least half time can apply for excellence funds. Note! Researchers that have received funding for research excellence in 2024 cannot apply for new funds 2025. 

Please submit the application to fkh.dekan@lnu.se by 23 September 2024.

You will find more information about the funding for research excellence 2025 here

Application for research excellence 2025

Strategic research funds 2025 for Innovative interdisciplinary research teams, the Sara Lisa initiative

The faculty are announcing funding opportunities for interdisciplinary research teams gathering around a common research problem.

The research teams will get the chance to work together on a complex research issue that is still at its initial stage. The goal is for the team’s collective knowledge to evolve and lead on to future innovative research. The end result must come in the form of applications or research communication. The aim of the faculty initiative is to create a seedbed for new research ideas that may serve as a basis for new knowledge environments and an increased ability to attract external funds.

All faculty staff are invited to submit funding proposals describing the research problem, along with envisaged results and participants, no later than 30 September 2024. Send the application to fkh.dekan@lnu.se

You will find more information about the Sara Lisa initiative here

Application for strategic research funds 2025 the Sara Lisa initiative here 

Research expenses

The departments have received the equivalent of 15 000 SEK per full-time senior lecturer/docent, and 25 000 SEK per full-time professor. The Head of department distributes funding based on the department’s needs. Applications for funding are submitted to the relevant support for head of department.

Application for funding for research expenses 2025

Doctoral students

Full-time doctoral students get 10 000 SEK per year from the so-called doctoral backpack. Applications for funding are submitted to the relevant support for head of department.

Application for funding for research expenses 2025

The Dean’s strategic funds

There is a limited amount of money reserved for running applications for strategic funds from the Dean.

There is no specific application form, but applicants need to state their affiliation, purpose and budget. Projects that involve minimum effort and maximum use across departments will be prioritised. Applications should be addressed to the Dean, and sent to fkh.dekan@lnu.se. 

Language review

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities wants to promote the internationalisation and efficient publication of research by increasing publication in languages other than Swedish (primarily English), in qualifying journals or in the form of books published by well-renowned publishers.

The university has a framework agreement for purchasing language and translation services.

Background

 This procedure applies to all applications for external funding, whether you, as a researcher, are the principal applicant or a co-applicant.

You are responsible for the academic content of the application. Your financial manager is responsible for setting up the budget and preparing a dean’s certificate, which is an internal document that clarifies, among other things, any co-funding and connections to LNUCs or Linnaeus Knowledge Environments. The dean’s certificate should be registered together with the application but should not be sent to the funding body.

The Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) is a university-wide support service that you can turn to for advice on funding opportunities and to develop research ideas.

The faculty co-funds externally funded research to allow for more applications in both new and established research environments. The dean has established principles for such co-funding, as outlined in decision reg. no LNU-2024/4785 (only available in Swedish). If your project does not align with the established principles, you must consult with the dean and obtain approval before you start working on the application. 

Procedure

1. Contact your head of department well in advance of the application deadline to get approval for your project. It is important to consider whether external parties are included in the application and, if so, whether they could or should be employed at Linnaeus University if funding is granted.

2. Next, get in touch with your department’s financial manager to jointly draw up the project budget.

3. The financial manager prepares the dean’s certificate and forwards it for electronic signature. Signatures should be obtained from the financial manager, the researcher, the head of department, and the dean.

The above steps must be completed before submitting the application to the funding body.

4. Many funding bodies use application portals. The dean attests the application electronically through Prisma.

5. In cases where the funding body insists on a physical signature from the dean or the vice-chancellor, a financial manager or research secretary can assist. Be sure to make contact about this really well in advance. You, the researcher, is responsible for ensuring that signing takes place and that the document reaches the funding body within the specified timeframe.

6. All applications must be registered. You should send your complete application to the financial manager, who will ensure that it is registered both with the registrar and in the faculty’s overview of external applications.

7. Eventually, once you receive notification from the funding body, you should inform your financial manager whether the funds have been granted or denied, so the case can be closed in the university register and the faculty overview.

Beslut om medfinansering FKH

Background

The faculty’s allocation of research funds is based on the Vice-chancellor’s decision 31, which constitutes the framework for how funds may be allocated within the faculty. On the basis of this, the faculty board decided in June 2023 on a revised model for the allocation of research time

Guiding principles in the allocation of research funds

Individual research time is guaranteed for:

• professors, who get 35% of the full extent of their employment (including any research time allocated via Linnaeus University Centres)
• docents, who get 5% of the full extent of their employment, added to the time reserved for professional development (including any research time allocated via Linnaeus University Centres).

In accordance with the working hours agreement, the ceiling for the total amount of research time allowed for professors is 75% (including faculty as well as externally funded research), in order to allow for teaching. If research time exceeds 75%, faculty funded research is decreased, so as not to exceed the ceiling. External funds should be the primary source of funding, supplemented by faculty funded research time.

There is also a searchable pot for research excellence. Funds are allocated based on what the faculty's budget allows. You will find more information under the heading Internal funding. 

The departments have a pot for funding research expenses for the heads of department to allocate. These funds can be used for docent merit and environmental support in addition to funds provided by the faculty to Lnuc and formal research centres.

On the staff page For researchers you will find information about what kinds of support the university provides for its researchers, including information about funding and application processes and what to think about before and during a research project.

Research Professional is a database of current announcements of national and international research and travel funding opportunities.

The Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) is a service provided by the university, for those who need help with finding research funding opportunities and developing their ideas and results. The faculty’s contact person at the Grants and Innovation Office is Joakim Frohlund Stoltz (research advisor).