Expanded responsibilities for the vice-deans
The three vice-deans have updated descriptions of their areas of responsibilities. This is being done so that the faculty can deliver long-term solutions to the many new demands and challenges that the university is facing.
Innovation partnerships with business and industry, study programmes that match future needs and new recruitment strategies for elite researchers are some of the focus areas on the vice-deans' to-do-list for the autumn.
The list of tasks for a university is long, and new wishes, requirements and expectations from politicians, business and industry and employers continue to increase. The vice-deans at Health have therefore increased focus on their areas of responsibility, which are also expanded with new activities.
Ole Steen Nielsen, vice-dean for research, will continue to maintain his focus on external funding. In addition, he has been given the task of implementing a new recruitment strategy at Health, which is intended to ensure that the faculty can attract even more Danish and foreign elite researchers, among other things.
As well as preparing the institutional accreditation, Vice-Dean for Education Charlotte Ringsted will also work with the five-year evaluation of the Master's degree programmes in optometry and in nursing, as well as both the Master’s degree programme and Master of clinical nursing. In addition, there is the work of developing a vision and strategic basis for Health's study programmes, and the required evaluation of the new quota 2 admission procedures for the medical degree programme.
Lise Wogensen Bach, vice-dean for talent development, will primarily use the autumn to promote the new talent track and develop a junior researcher programme. She is also responsible for a range of activities in connection with the faculty's collaboration with business and industry and its international partnerships.
However, the list does not end here. Below is the complete portfolio of tasks for the three vice-deans at Health:
Ole Steen Nielsen, vice-dean for research
Research
- Supporting the departments' work to develop research strategies
- Support for members of academic staff from associate professor level
Research infrastructure
- IT security
- Core facilities and other major research infrastructures
External research funding
- Supporting the departments' work to attract increased external research funding
- Information/annual cycle for national foundations
- Contact strategy towards large private foundations and international foundations (EU)
- Health Science Research Foundation, Central Denmark Region: Research projects/positions
Recruitment of researchers
- Recruitment of tenured members of academic staff and tenure track
Prizes and recruitment tools
- Prizes and recruitment tools for elite researchers
AU Research Support and External Relations
- Together with the vice-deans from the other faculties, member of AU's cross-disciplinary Committee for Research Support and External Relations
Lise Wogensen Bach, vice-dean for talent development
The PhD degree programme
- Overall strategic management in relation to the PhD degree programme
Talent and career development
- Development of pre-graduate and postgraduate talent development activities and summer schools (extra-curricular)
- Research year
- Fostering of young research talents up to associate professor level
- Prizes for early career researchers at associate professor level
- Gender equality
- Health Science Research Foundation, Central Denmark Region: Short term scholarships/senior grants
Business collaboration
- Strategic management of overall business collaboration efforts at Health, including contact with companies, the establishment of partnerships with a view to development of pre- and postgraduate educational activities, industrial PhDs, industrial postdocs and joint positions. Additionally, income-generating activities.
Internationalisation
- Strategic management of the overall internationalisation efforts at Health, including establishment of joint programmes with partner universities and international recruitment
AU Research Support and External Relations
- Together with the vice-deans from the other faculties, member of AU's cross-disciplinary Committee for Research Support and External Relations
Code of Conduct
- Together with the other faculties, part of the contact person function in relation to centralised efforts in this area.
Charlotte Ringsted, vice dean for education
Regulated degree programmes
- Strategic management relating to Health's portfolio of degree programmes and the degree programmes offered, including establishing new programmes, amalgamating existing programme and closing down degree programmes
- Strategic management in relation to the faculty's pre-graduate study programmes as well as management in relation to Health's professional Master's degrees and diploma programmes
- Strategic management of quality assurance and quality development of the degree programmes, including research basis and relevant employer panels
- Coordination of educational administrative tasks with HE Studies Administration
Degree programme development
- Strategic manager of Health's educational and pedagogical centre (CESU)
AU's Education Committee
- Together with the vice-deans from the other faculties, member of AU's cross-disciplinary Education Committee and associated sub-committees such as e.g. EDU IT