Research should look at the consequences of the University Act, which was introduced in 2003.

For the first time will now assess how the country's eight universities are doing after politicians in recent years has introduced New Public Management at them. This is a major research project that extends over four years and supported by five million of VELUX FOUNDATION. The upcoming study will among other things focus on the use of development contracts. Here commits the university to achieve a number of specific goals within a given period. Another point is the introduction of a special system in which each university among other things, get money for his research based on how many articles researchers have published in scientific journals. The scheme is called the bibliometric research indicator and aims to reward universities with the most articles published.

Research has changed?

- We're going down on the floor and look at what the new management tools means for the individual researcher and the individual department. If for example, we look at the bibliometric research indicator, can a question be whether there is now a tendency to go after a little easier research areas where it is more likely to achieve results which can be published. And cut research into multiple slices, so the researchers can write a higher number of articles? So says Professor Poul Erik Mouritzen from the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark. He will lead the research project, which also will have participation by Associate Professor Niels Ejersbo and PhD student Niels Opstrup from the same institution and by Carsten Greve from CBS.

Third VELUX grant to political science

The project is the third VELUX grant that within less time allocated to researchers from the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark. Thus Erik Albæk just received a grant for a project to examine how media coverage of the national economy plays into people's attitudes. And in 2009, Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard and Robert Klemmensen support for an investigation of whether it's heritage or the environment that determines our political and social perception. Source: SDU