Pilot project – interdisciplinary initiatives in education

The Disciplinary Domain Board decided to launch a pilot project aimed at identifying opportunities for and barriers to interdisciplinary courses and study programmes within the disciplinary domain and in collaboration with the wider community.

The pilot project will be carried out by a working group appointed after nominations by the Faculty Boards. The working group must submit a report to the Disciplinary Domain Board by 21 October 2022. In addition to opportunities for and barriers to interdisciplinary courses and study programmes, the report will also address the relationship between interdisciplinary courses and study programmes and the regular offering of courses and study programmes, and between interdisciplinary courses and study programmes and contract education. Furthermore, the report will describe any unutilised or underutilised resources for interdisciplinary courses and study programmes that have been identified.

Reg. no.: HUMSAM 2021/57

Allocation of funding for infrastructure investments

The Disciplinary Domain Board decided that the funds earmarked by the University Board for research infrastructure in 2021-2022 will be managed by the Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala (CDHU). The funding is expected to be available for five years.

For this funding, CDHU will primarily develop activity-based infrastructure support in two parts to support research within the entire disciplinary domain:

  • staff with specialist expertise in digital methods for humanities and social science research
  • digital resources for the processing and temporary storage of research data.

Reg. no.: HUMSAM 2021/52

Supplement to Operational Plan 2022

The Disciplinary Domain Board decided to allocate supplementary funding agreement targets and funding from the Vice-Chancellor’s autumn operational plan as follows:

Lifelong learning

Just over SEK 9 million per year to courses in lifelong learning 2022-2024 have been allocated as follows to the faculties able to fulfil the target:

  • Faculty of Arts SEK 1.7 million (from 2023)
  • Faculty of Law SEK 5.5 million
  • Faculty of Languages SEK 500,000
  • SEK 1.7 million (for 2022, SEK 3.4 million) retained at the disciplinary domain level to compensate any over-production.

Allocation of special quality funds for Campus Gotland

The University’s operational plan allocates special funding each year to Campus Gotland’s activities, and the portions allocated to each of the disciplinary domains was decided in the autumn operational plan. Nearly SEK 4 million to campus courses and just over SEK 2 million for full-time equivalents has been allocated as follows:

Funding for campus students

  • Faculty of Law SEK 500,000
  • Faculty of Arts SEK 1.4 million
  • Faculty of Languages SEK 89,000
  • Faculty of Social Sciences SEK 1.3 million
  • Faculty of Educational Sciences SEK 500,000.

Funding for full-time equivalents

  • Faculty of Law SEK 90,000
  • Faculty of Arts SEK 1.4 million
  • Faculty of Languages SEK 20,000
  • Faculty of Social Sciences SEK 520,000
  • Faculty of Educational Sciences SEK 160,000.

Reg. no.: HUMSAM 2021/20