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1 TABLES AND FIGURES ................................................................................................................... 3

2 PREFACE ....................................................................................................................................... 4

3 RESEARCH AT ARTS ....................................................................................................................... 5

4 SCIENTIFIC STAFF .......................................................................................................................... 6

4.1 FULL-TIME SCIENTIFIC STAFF .................................................................................................................. 6

4.2 GENDER DISTRIBUTION OF SCIENTIFIC STAFF.............................................................................................. 6

4.3 SCIENTIFIC STAFF RECRUITMENTS ............................................................................................................ 7

5 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS .......................................................................................................... 10

5.1 TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS ..................................................................................................................... 10

5.2 BFI PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................. 10

5.3 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................................ 13

5.4 INTERNATIONALISATION AND PUBLICATION LANGUAGE ............................................................................. 14

5.5 AUTHOR COLLABORATIONS ................................................................................................................. 16

5.6 OPEN ACCESS ................................................................................................................................... 16

5.7 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................. 18

6 TALENT DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................................. 19

6.1 ENROLMENTS AND GRADUATES ............................................................................................................ 19

6.2 FINANCING OF PHD STUDENTS ............................................................................................................. 20

6.3 PHD STUDENTS WITH EXTERNAL PARTNERS ............................................................................................. 21

6.4 RECRUITMENT OF PHD STUDENTS AND INTERNATIONALISATION ................................................................. 23

6.5 COMPLETION TIME OF PHD STUDENTS .................................................................................................. 24

7 EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING .................................................................................................. 25

7.1 EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING SOURCES ................................................................................................ 25

7.2 RESEARCH FUNDING FROM THE EU ....................................................................................................... 29

8 INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS ........................................................................................................ 30

8.1 AARHUS UNIVERSITY RANKINGS ........................................................................................................... 30

8.2 FACULTY RANKINGS ........................................................................................................................... 30

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1 Tables and Figures

Table 1: Full-time scientific staff

Table 2: Gender distribution in percentage, Faculty of Arts

Figure 1: Percentage of women, Faculty of Arts, divided by employment category from

2014-2018

Table 3: Gender distribution in percentage, Aarhus University

Table 4: Recruitments with AU or external PhD degree, scientific staff categories

Figure 2: Recruitments with AU or external PhD degree, scientific staff categories

Figure 3: Recruitments of scientific staff with AU or external PhD degree, schools

Figure 4: Research publications, Arts total

Figure 5: BFI, Arts total

Figure 6: BFI, scientific journal articles and book/anthology contributions, Arts total

Table 5: BFI scientific publications by school

Figure 7: BFI scientific publications, totals by school

Figure 8: BFI scientific publications, proportion by school

Figure 9: Peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed publications, all publication types

Figure 10: Peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, by school

Figure 11: Publication language in peer-reviewed scientific articles

Figure 12: Publication language in contributions to books

Figure 13: Publication language in scientific books and reports

Figure 14: Author collaborations in research publications

Figure 15: Open Access Indicator 2017, AU

Figure 16: Open Access Indicator 2017, Faculty of Arts

Table 6: Publications related to knowledge exchange

Table 7: Enrolled PhD students at Arts’ PhD degree programmes

Figure 17: PhD student enrolments and graduates

Figure 18: PhD student enrolments divided into 5+3 and 4+4 Figure 19: Financing of the PhD students (head count) Table 8: Enrolled PhD students in collaboration with University Colleges, 2012-2018 Figure 20: Enrolments and graduates in collaboration with University Colleges, 2012-2018 Figure 21: Industrial PhD student enrolments and graduates Figure 22: Origin of MA degree for 5+3 enrolments Figure 23: International (non-Danish) PhD students at AU, percentage of students Figure 24: PhD graduates who did a research stay abroad of min. 2 months

Figure 25: Completion time of PhD students

Figure 26: External funding as proportion of Arts’ annual accounts in 2018 Figure 27: Expenses financed by external research funds in million DKK

Table 9: Sources of external research funding divided into faculties

Figure 28: Arts’ funding sources, 2017-2018

Figure 29: DFF funding to Arts for individual postdoc and collective research projects

Figure 30: Velux and Carlsberg funding to Arts

Table 10: EU Horizon2020 projects, 2014-2020

Table 11: Aarhus University rankings

Table 12: QS Faculty Rankings

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2 Preface

The purpose of Arts Research and Talent Development, Key Figures 2019 is to provide an internal

report of recent developments in a variety of areas related to research and talent development

within the Faculty of Arts and its schools.

The data has been collected in the summer 2019 with support from administrative units at Aarhus

University.

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3 Research at Arts

This report provides a glance into the impressive research carried in all parts of the faculty. In

addition to the hard numbers provided should be mentioned all the conferences, seminars,

courses and lively intellectual debates that all contribute to making the Faculty of Arts very strong.

Looking through the numbers regarding the scientific staff I am pleased to note that we have

been able to improve the total number of professors and also of women in the more senior

categories of associate professor and professor.

The research output measured in publications continues to be high. Most of the research is

published as peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. In the general research community there is

a strong emphasis on Open Access. Arts is improving and though there is definitely room for

improvements, we actually have the smallest “unrealized” potential of Open Access compared

to the other faculties at the university.

As head of Graduate School, Arts I am extremely pleased that we are able to uphold the large

numbers of enrollment of PhD students. This is not least due to a rising number of external

collaborations and funding sources. In 2018 we reached a record high of 80% of the graduating

PhD students who had done a research stay abroad. I hope this will rise even more as an

international research stay is a vital part of the PhD education and career step for our PhD students.

In 2018 we had our first success with the prestigious European Research Council. And all in all the

success-rate with European funding through the H2020 programme is impressive. Danish national

funds are still the funding agency where we attract the majority of external funding, but there is a

considerable rise in funding attracted from EU and Danish private funds.

I hope you will enjoy this years “state of the Arts”.

Anne Marie Pahuus, Vice Dean for Research and Head of Graduate School, Faculty of Arts

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4 Scientific Staff

4.1 Full-time scientific staff

The Faculty of Arts has 549 full-time scientific members of staff in the categories professor,

associate professor, assistant professor and postdoc. By fall 2019, 291 PhD students were enrolled

at the Faculty of Arts.

Table 1. Full-time scientific staff (head count), Faculty of Arts, ultimo 2018

Source: HR Arts, February 2019/Graduate school, Arts August 2019.

*The numbers for PhD students are from August 2019.

In addition to the categories mentioned above, there are a number of full-time scientific staff

members in the categories videnskabelige assistenter, studieadjunkter og studielektorer and

other categories (CAS: 49, CC: 57, EDU: 26). These are not included in the table above since they

have no formal research obligations.

4.2 Gender distribution of scientific staff

The percentage of women decreases when climbing the career ladder; 59 percent of the PhD

students, 46 percent of the associate professors and 36 percent of the professors (incl. MSO) are

female at Arts.

Table 2. Gender distribution in percentage, Faculty of Arts

Source: HR Arts, February 2019 (CUDiM is not included in the percentage as the number of faculty are too few to provide

reasonable percentages).

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CC (IKK) 83 22 22 130 9 16 282

EDU (DPU) 72 5 10 106 10 15 218

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Total 291 51 61 355 31 51 840

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Students

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Associate

Prof.

Lektorer

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MSO

Prof. Total

CAS (IKS) 53/47 58/42 55/45 38/62 33/67 30/70 45/55

CC (IKK) 63/37 77/23 55/45 43/57 22/78 31/69 49/51

EDU (DPU) 62/38 40/60 40/60 58/42 50/50 47/53 50/50

Total 59/41 58/42 50/50 46/54 35/65 36/64 48/52

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Figure 1. Percentage of women, Faculty of Arts, divided by employment category from 2014-

2018

Source: HR Arts, February 2019.

In comparison to the other faculties at Aarhus University, The Faculty of Arts has the highest

percentage of women at both assistant professor/postdoc, associate professor and professor

level.

Table 3. Gender distribution in percentage, Aarhus University

Source: AU Key Figures 2018, HR Arts

4.3 Scientific staff recruitments

Table 4 provides an overview of the number and the percentage of scientific staff members

recruited at Arts from 2014-2018 with a PhD degree from AU or another (external) university

divided into scientific staff categories. Arts has a fairly even distribution of internal/external

recruitments as 48 % in 2014, 51 % in 2015, 50% in 2016 and 46% in 2017 had an AU PhD degree.

In 2018 it was higher than previous years with 61% of recruitments having an AU PhD degree.

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Students

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Prof.

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Prof. Incl.

MSO

Total

BSS 50/50 46/54 38/62 25/75 40/60

HE 62/38 51/49 41/59 23/77 44/56

ST 44/56 34/66 23/77 11/88 28/72

Arts 58/42 58/42 46/54 35/65 49/51

Total AU 54/46 47/53 37/63 24/76 40/60

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Table 4. Recruitments with AU or external PhD degree, scientific staff categories

Percentage

(numbers)

2014

AU/external

PhD degree

2015

AU/external

PhD degree

2016

AU/external

PhD degree

2017

AU/external

PhD degree

2018

AU/external

PhD degree

Postdoc 48%/52%

(15/16)

30%/70%

(8/19)

47%/53%

(17/19)

64%/36%

(23/13)

71%/29%

(22/9)

Assistant

professor

(adjunkt)

50%/50%

(13/13)

63%/37%

(12/7)

48%/52%

(12/13)

35%/65%

(8/15)

47%/53%

(8/9)

Associate

professor

(lektor)

48%/52%

(11/12)

59%/41%

(22/15)

58%/48%

(18/13)

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(9/14)

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(13/11)

Professor 50%/50%

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(3/5)

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(7/2)

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(2/2)

(0/1)

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(3/1)

Arts total 48%/52%

(44/48)

51%/49%

(50/48)

50%/50%

(51/50)

46%/54%

(40/46)

61%/39%

(51/33) Source: Arts HR, February 2019.

Note: The numbers are based on a manual count and only includes recruitments via open calls.

Figure 2 illustrates the numbers from Table 4.

Figure 2. Recruitments with AU or external PhD degree, scientific staff categories

Source: Arts HR, February 2019.


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Figure 3 provides an overview of recruitments divided into the schools of Arts.

Figure 3. Recruitments of scientific staff, all categories, with AU or external PhD degree, by schools

Source: Arts HR, February 2019.


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5 Scientific Publications

This section provides an overview of the scientific output of Arts’ research measured in types and

numbers of publications. The overview is divided into bibliometric levels (BFI), peer-reviewed and

non-peer-reviewed articles, and publication language.

Data was drawn from PURE in the spring and summer of 2019. All scientific staff is expected to

update their PURE profiles by the end of February each year, however, there are some qualitative

and quantitative uncertainties in the PURE registrations.

In addition, it is important to be aware that PURE is a dynamic database and data drawn from

PURE is considered a momentary glance into the scientific output. The numbers are constantly

subject to change, due to new registrations, corrections etc.

5.1 Types of publications

Research at Arts is published through diverse channels. Figure 4 provides an overview of the total

number of publications divided into different types of research output. The total number of

research publications at Arts has risen from 1.677 in 2010 to 1.899 in 2018. The most noticeable

rise in recent years is within peer reviewed scientific articles.

Figure 4. Research publications, Arts total

Source: AU Key Figures 2010-2018. Note: The numbers in Figure 4 are drawn from PURE for the purpose of AU Key Figures, and the methodology used differs

from AU Library’s method for the remaining parts of the report.

5.2 BFI publications

The Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) is dynamic and subject to change. In BFI, series

(journals and book series) are divided into 3 levels, publishers are divided into 2 levels. The higher

the level a channel has, the more BFI points trigger a publication published in the channel. Level

3 is a new level (valid from publication year 2018) that triggers more points than level 2. Unlike

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Level 2, which applies for the following two years, Level 3 will apply for the following four years.

All journals and publishers included in the BFI are subject to a peer-review process.

Figure 5. BFI, Arts total

Source: AU Library, PURE.

2017 is so far the record year for the Faculty of Arts with 1.063 BFI publications (level 1 and 2). This

is especially due to a large amount of scientific contributions to books and anthologies in 2017. In

2018 there is a noticeable rise in level 2 publications.

The majority of the BFI rated publications are either scientific journal articles or book/anthology

contributions. These are extracted in Figure 6.

Figure 6. BFI, scientific journal articles and book/anthology contributions, Arts total


In Figures 5 and 6, co-authored articles and publications only count once.

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Table 5. BFI scientific publications by school

Numbers EDU CC CAS

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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Articles

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Figure 7 shows the total number of BFI scientific publications published by academic staff

affiliated to each school. Co-authored articles count more than once, if an article is co-authored

by researchers from different schools (Section 5.5 provides an overview of the number of co-

authored publications).

Figure 7. BFI scientific publications, totals by school

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Figure 8 shows the proportion of BFI scientific publication of each school (visualisation of Table 5

above).

Figure 8. BFI scientific publications, proportion by school


5.3 Peer-reviewed publications

In Figure 9, a total count of all publication types at Arts divided into peer-reviewed and non peer-

reviewed publications shows that the majority of the research output at Arts goes through a peer-

review process.

Figure 9. Peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed publications, all publication types


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Within the category of scientific journal articles (including literature review and scientific review),

peer-reviewed publications are significant in all three schools (Figure 9).

Figure 10. Peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, by school


5.4 Internationalisation and publication language

It is a goal of Arts to increase the international impact of its research output. One indicator that

can be used to view this development is the language of publication, especially the number of

publications in English and other languages relevant in a field (Figures 11, 12 and 13).

Figure 11. Publication language in peer-reviewed scientific articles


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Figure 12. Publication language in contributions to anthologies and books (book chapter and

report chapter)


Figure 13. Publication language in scientific books and reports


English and Danish are by far the two main publication languages. In the “other” category, the

most common languages used are Spanish, German, Swedish, Norwegian and French.

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5.5 Author collaborations

Researchers at Arts increasingly co-publish with one or more co-authors. Figure 14 shows that the

majority of publications are single authored, but a significant number of research publications are

co-authored, and of these a major part are co-authored with at least one external collaborator

from another university. The far majority of the external collaborators (non-AU) are affiliated with

mostly Danish, then Nordic and European research institutions.

Figure 14. Author collaborations in research publications


*The green column is a fraction of the middle (red) column.

5.6 Open Access

Aarhus University has adopted an open access policy in order to establish free access for all

citizens, researchers and enterprises to research publications produced as part of the research at

AU. The university’s open access policy states that: "Peer-reviewed research articles, and as far as

possible other research publications, are archived in Pure in full-text version and/or as a link,

ideally supplemented by archiving in another online academic archive, with indication of

whether the publication is an Open Access version or, if relevant, subject to an embargo period."

The university has chosen the “green model” for open access. This means that it is the author who

provides access to the full text version of an article, by uploading a full text version in the PURE

repository or as a link. The author can only upload the full text version with the publisher’s consent.

Figure 15 show that only a small part of the publications are available as open access. It also

shows the open access potential in the different schools. AU Library is in the process of establishing

routines to ensure more publications will be available as open access.

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Figure 15. Open Access Indicator 2017, AU

Source: AU Library and Danish Open Access Indicator (http://oaindikator.dk/en), August 2019

Note: The 2017 statistics, are based on the final OAI results released March 2019. The final 2018 statistics will be

available in April 2020.

It is worth noticing that Arts has the highest percentage of publication in the ‘blocked’ category,

and that Arts is performing well with a low percentile in the ‘Unrealised’ category.

Meaning that since Arts is challenged by a high percentage of publications deemed unlikely to

become Open Access, Arts is performing well because of the small ‘unrealised’ potential.

Figure 16. Open Access Indicator 2017, Faculty of Arts

Source: AU Library and Danish Open Access Indicator (http://oaindikator.dk/en), August 2019

Note: The 2017 statistics, are based on the final OAI results released March 2019. The final 2018 statistics will be

available in April 2020.

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5.7 Knowledge exchange publications

Art’s researchers are engaged in knowledge exchange. It is possible to register these activities in

PURE, however, researchers don’t necessarily register all these activities. As a result, the data in

Table 6 holds a large amount of uncertainties; activities and publications are no doubt higher than

the numbers registered. In addition researchers have a large number of appearances in the

media that are not included the registration below.

Table 6. Arts publications related to knowledge exchange

Numbers 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Articles in

journal/newspaper

323 293 176 226 168 184 158 160

Feature articles in

journal/newspaper

209 177 112 190 93 130 198 118

Review in

journal/newspaper

100 88 68 53 137 79 75 111

Research providing

book/anthology/report

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contribution to

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comment

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exchange contributions

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Textbook 12 4 21 10 12 8 3 11

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notes

2 1 1 1 0 0 4 2

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Other teaching material 3 12 4 9 2 5 6 6

Total 959 885 668 792 690 682 773 651

Source: AU Key Figures 2011-2018.

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6 Talent Development

6.1 Enrolments and graduates

Table 7 shows that by fall 2019 Graduate School, Arts had a total of 291 enrolled PhD students.

The PhD students are affiliated with a school (see also Table 1) and one of Arts’ eight PhD degree

programmes.

Table 7. Enrolled PhD students at Arts’ PhD degree programmes

School Programme Enrolled PhD

Students

CAS

Anthropology, International Area Studies and the Study of

Religion

55

History, Archaeology and Classical Studies 44

Theology, History of Ideas and Philosophy 34

Total 133

CC

Art, Literature and Cultural Studies 43

ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism 26

Language, Linguistics and Cognition 14

Total 83

EDU Didactics 34

Learning and Education 41

Total 75

Total 291

Source: Graduate School, Arts, August 2019 (numbers include the 2019 fall enrollments)

Figure 17 shows the number of enrolled students and accepted PhD theses at Graduate School,

Arts since 2005. The Faculty has the largest number of PhD enrollments within the humanities,

education and theology in Denmark.

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Figure17. PhD student enrolments and graduates

Source: Graduate School, Arts.

Note: Prior to 2012, PhD students from the programmes based at EDU are not included.

Figure 18 divides the enrolments from figure 17 into 5+3 and 4+4.

Figure 18. PhD student enrolments divided into 5+3 and 4+4


Note: Prior to 2012, PhD students from the programmes based at EDU are not included.

6.2 Financing of PhD students

Figure 19 show that an increasing amount of the PhD students at Graduate School, Arts are either

co-financed or externally financed. These PhD students are often affiliated with a university

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40

50

60

70

80

90

100

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

5+3 64 51 60 64 57 48 33 34 58 50 58 65 72 67

4+4 0 0 25 26 24 23 29 18 14 16 13 15 16 18

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college, a museum or another institution while conducting their PhD studies at Graduate School,

Arts.

Figure 19. Financing of the PhD students (head count)


Note: From 2017 we count co-financed and externally financed as one group, often the co-financing of the Graduate

School is the exclusion of overhead.

6.3 PhD students with external partners

The Faculty of Arts has a substantial collaboration with external partners. Some of these are in

collaboration with the Danish University Colleges.

Table 8. Enrolled PhD students in collaboration with University Colleges 2012 – 2018

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Anthropology, Global Studies

and the Study of Religion

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Art, Literature and Cultural

Studies

0 0 1 4 4 3 3

Didactics 7 10 19 24 23 22 20

History, Archaeology and

Classical Studies

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ICT, Media, Communication

and Journalism

0 1 2 4 4 2 4

Language, Linguistics,

Communication and Cognition

0 0 0 1 1 1 0

Learning and Education 11 15 18 16 15 15 16

Theology, History of ideas and

Philosophy

1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Total 19 27 41 50 48 44 44


2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Faculty financed 35 29 24 27 29 34 37 38

Co-financed 11 10 25 18 20 20 51 47

Externally financed 16 12 22 21 22 26

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Figure 20. Enrolments and graduates in collaboration with university Colleges 2012-2018


Industrial PhD students are enrolled at the university for three years and at the same time

employed by a company/institution as part of their PhD project. The PhD students work full time

on their PhD project and share their time equally between the company/institution and the

university.

Graduate School, Arts has had 28 industrial PhD students enrolled since 2005 (Figure 21).

Figure 21. Industrial PhD student enrolments and graduates


2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Graduates 1 1 0 11 7 13 8

Enrolments 8 14 15 19 9 12 9

0

2

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6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Enrolments 2 1 4 9 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 2

Graduates 1 0 0 3 4 3 2 4 0 3 1 0

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6.4 Recruitment of PhD students and internationalisation

It is important to the Faculty of Arts to recruit the best internal and external candidates to the

Graduate School. Since 4+4 students are internal recruitments, these are left out of Figure 22.

Figure 22. Origin of MA degree for 5+3 enrolments


In addition, Arts strives to enhance the level of internationalisation of the enrolled PhD students.

This is measured both by how many international (non-Danish) PhD students the graduate school

enrolls (Figure 23) and on how many students do a research stay abroad (Figure 24).

Figure 23 shows an increase in the percentage of international students since 2010 at Arts,

however the proportion is still low compared to both ST and BSS.

Figure 23. International (non-Danish) PhD students at AU, percentage of students


2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

AU MA degree 31 25 17 14 12 26 30 31 35 42 28

External MA degree 28 24 27 13 22 32 18 23 28 28 32

Unknown 5 8 4 6 0 0 2 4 2 2 7

0

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10

15

20

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30

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40

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20

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30

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Arts BSS HE ST

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Figure 24 shows the percentage of PhD graduates since 2014 who went on a research stay

abroad for a minimum of two months during their PhD degree.

Figure 24. PhD graduates who did a research stay abroad of min. 2 months


6.5 Completion time of PhD students

Figure 25 shows the development in the average completion time (effective study time) for PhD

students at Graduate School, Arts.

Figure 25. Average completion time of PhD degree in years for 4+4 and 5+3


Notes:

1) Prior to 2012, PhD students from the programmes based at EDU are not included.

2) The figure excludes one student in 2013 that completed 11 years after enrolment.

3) For 4+4 students, all leaves and part A (MA credit) are excluded.

In comparison to the other three faculties, the effective study time for PhD students at Graduate

School, Arts is slightly longer.

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Research stay 28% 50% 64% 72% 80%

0%

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40%

50%

60%

70%

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90%

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

4+4 3 3 3,2 3,4 3,4 3,5 4,3 4,1

5+3 3,6 3,7 3,9 3,8 3,7 3,7 3,5 3,7

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7 External Research Funding

In 2018, 19 percent of Arts’ annual accounts were external funding (Figure 26).

Figure 26. External funding as proportion of Arts’ annual accounts in 2018 (1.098 million DKK)

Source: Administration Centre Arts.

“Other funding” refers to non-state funding, for instance from Master tuition fees.

“State others” refer to funding that is neither education nor research related (i.e. library and other funds).

Figure 27 provides an overview of the development of the annual expense level financed by

external research funds to Arts since 2009.

Figure 27. Expenses financed by external research funds in million DKK


7.1 External research funding sources

Table 9 shows the origin of funding sources based on the total amount of external research funds

to the faculties at AU in the period 2010−2018. The table shows that the majority of external

research funds come from national (and in particular public) funding sources.

37%

36%

2%5%

19%

State education funding State research funding

State others Other funding, e.g. tuition fees

External funding

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Research Funding 126 145 154 136 137 150 156 153 190 208

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Table 9. Sources of external research funding divided into faculties

Source: AU Key Figures 2010-2018 Note: For years 2010-2013, “EU” and “Other international” are gathered in one number.

Figure 28 below visualizes the distribution of Arts’ funding sources for 2017 and 2018 from Table

9. The percentages represent averages across the two years.

Mio. DKK 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Arts

Danish public

funds 96 93 86 90 92 93 94 105 110

Danish private

funds 39 54 35 36 45 47 42 62 74

EU 9 7 15 10 8 10 14 20 20

Other

international - - - - 5 6 2 3 4

BSS

Danish public

funds 98 101 116 105 95 98 88 92 81

Danish private

funds 18 21 27 35 37 46 45 54 63

EU 15 17 20 18 12 21 15 16 16

Other

international - - - - 6 7 9 10 10

ST

Danish public

funds 588 590 632 607 604 622 679 665 599

Danish private

funds 206 178 178 165 189 209 178 217 260

EU 138 144 140 179 116 131 123 121 130

Other

international - - - - 35 37 46 47 63

Health

Danish public

funds 117 129 144 159 146 148 135 124 121

Danish private

funds 108 104 126 145 157 169 159 172 200

EU 33 31 31 34 12 12 15 18 21

Other

international - - - - 11 11 12 12 17

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Figure 28. Arts’ funding sources, 2017-2018

Source: AU Key Figures 2018.

At Arts, and most significantly at CAS and CC, one of the major funding sources for both research

projects and postdoctoral projects is the Danish Research Council for Independent Research,

Humanities (DFF). Figure 29 shows the development in funding that Arts’ schools have attracted

from DFF (individual postdocs and collective research projects).

Figure 29. DFF funding to Arts for collective research projects (and individual postdoc until 2016)

and Research Networks (included from 2019)

Source: Data gathered from fivu.dk

Note:1) The figure only shows the projects where Arts (AU) is the main applicant. Funding for Arts researchers who are

co-applicants in other universities’ projects are not included. The numbers for 2018 may still rise.

Apart from public funding, Arts also attracts funding from private funds, in particular from Velux

and Carlsberg, whose funding to Arts is shown in Figure 30.

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

AU other 1.700.46 2.832.27 6.254.81 6.471.82 1.802.18 7.654.70

EDU 9.575.97 2.040.29 2.129.52 14.373.5 4.941.41

CC 15.870.9 9.698.34 4.315.02 16.548.1 12.672.5 9.260.98 17.309.2 12.710.8

CAS 5.983.52 13.090.5 14.280.6 20.365.6 7.534.34 14.385.8 15.858.9 4.404.32 11.986.3 8.723.71

0 kr.

5.000.000 kr.

10.000.000 kr.

15.000.000 kr.

20.000.000 kr.

25.000.000 kr.

30.000.000 kr.

35.000.000 kr.

40.000.000 kr.

Danish public funds54%

Danish private funds 34%

EU 10%

Other international2%

Arts Danish public funds Arts Danish private funds Arts EU Arts Other international

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Figure 30. Velux and Carlsberg funding to Arts

Source: Velux’ webpage and Carlsberg yearly report.

Note: The figure only shows the projects where Arts (AU) is the main applicant. Arts researchers who are co-applicants in

other universities’ projects are not included.

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Velux Arts kr. 9.639 kr. 8.550 kr. 16.57 kr. 4.604 kr. 5.965 kr. 5.600 kr. 18.58 kr. 7.169 kr. 15.70

Carlsberg Arts kr. 5.303 kr. 5.215 kr. 9.707 kr. 4.795 kr. 6.954 kr. 10.79 kr. 39.37 kr. 9.100 kr. 11.86

kr. -

kr. 5.000.000

kr. 10.000.000

kr. 15.000.000

kr. 20.000.000

kr. 25.000.000

kr. 30.000.000

kr. 35.000.000

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7.2 Research funding from the EU

It is a strategic goal of Arts to attract more research funding from the EU and the Horizon 2020

framework. From the FP7 (2007-2013) Arts researchers attracted a total of 5.460.568 €. Table 10

lists the funding attracted from the current EU Horizon 2020 programme (2014-2020).

Table 10. EU Horizon 2020 projects, 2014-2020

CAS

(11 projects)

CC

(12 projects)

EDU

(3 projects)

CUDiM

(1 project)

Total

€ 200.194

(ES - IF, Marie Curie)

€ 2.602.531

(IL - OrganiCity)

€ 735.368

(IL - Reeler)

€ 15.460

(ES – MakEY)

€ 1.307.226

(ES - ITN, Marie Curie)

€ 200.194

(ES - IF, Marie Curie)

€701.250

(SC– UPRIGHT)

€ 192.927

(SC- CoHere)

€ 323.560

(SC - Unrest)

€ 200.195

(ES – IF, Marie

Curie)

€ 1.624.248

(ES – ITN, Marie Curie)

€ 263.081

(ES - ITN, Marie Curie)

€ 305.835

(SC – ECHOES)

€ 1.101.875

(IL – SynchroniCity)

€ 580.163

(ES – ITN, Marie Curie)

€ 72.000

(ES – HaS-DARIAH)

€ 212.194

(ES – IF, Marie Curie)

€ 212.195

(ES- IF, Marie Curie)

€ 200.194

(ES – IF, Marie Curie)

€ 88.871

(SC – DETECT)

€ 97.452

(ES – ARIADNEplus)

€ 207.312

(ES – MOVES)

€ 1.907.638

(ES – CLIOARCH)

€ 317.500

(IL - IOT4EU)

€ 1.888.592

(ES – CLIC)

€ 435.750

(IL – NGI FORWARD)

€ 174.437

(IL – SOMA)

€ 8.516.668 € 5.999.308 € 1.636.813 € 15.460

€ 16.168.249

Source: AU Research Support Unit, August 2019.

SC: Societal Challenge pillar

ES: Excellent Science pillar

IL: Industrial Leadership

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8 International Rankings

8.1 Aarhus University rankings

Among over 17.000 universities world-wide, Aarhus University is ranked in the top in

several influential rankings. A high ranking is an important competitive advantage for a university

which seeks to attract and retain the best students, researchers and partnerships.

Table 11. Aarhus University rankings

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Leiden Ranking 77* 68* 81* 97* 101* 111* 108*

ARWU – Shanghai 81 74 73 65 65 65 -

National Taiwan University

Ranking

86 87 88 86 88 89 89

QS World University

Ranking

91 96 107 117 119 141 145

US News Best Global

Universities Ranking

- - - 127 108 95 106

Times Higher Education

World University Ranking

(AU/Arts and Humanities)

138/

95

153/

91

106/

65

98/55 98 109 123

Source: Rector’s Office.

*Among the largest universities in the world (132 in 2013, 138 in 2014, 154 in 2015, 171 in 2016, 190 in 2017, 208 in

2018 and 215 in 2019).

8.2 Faculty rankings

The disciplines within social sciences and humanities do not have the same weight in the

international rankings as STEM disciplines. The main reason for this is that most rankings are based

on impact factors measured by citations. However, within the social sciences and humanities,

impact is difficult to measure via citations indexes. Leiden and Shanghai rankings do not include

the humanistic disciplines in their rankings (the ranking includes education as part of the social

sciences).

QS World University Ranking does a faculty based ranking where the disciplines within arts and

humanities are measured. Until 2012, QS Faculty Rankings were mainly based on academic

reputation, but from 2013 onwards the ranking also includes employer reputation and a citation

indicator.

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Table 12. QS Faculty Rankings

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016/

2017

2018 2019

Arts and

Humanities

80 117 154 116 79 76 92 93 87 85

Social Sciences and

Management

88 129 144 122 59 62 70 68 98 178

Engineering and

Technology

182 214 202 239 128 166 112 105 113 75

Life Sciences and

Medicine

64 116 95 109 74 64 60 58 66 150

Natural Sciences 71 89 117 134 112 139 95 87 131 118

Source: Rector’s Office.

Note: Some of Arts’ academic disciplines fall within the other categories in the faculty ranking.

In addition to the faculty ranking Arts have a few academic disciplines which have an impressive

high ranking in the QS subject ranking. Eight disciplines at Aarhus University are ranked in top 50.

Five of these are from Arts; Anthropology 42, Archaeology 35, Theology and Religious Studies 30,

Communication and Media Studies 42 and Classics and Ancient History 42. (The other three are

Dentistry 27, Agriculture and Forestry 35 and Social Policy & Administration 49)

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