Dear all,
I hope you have had a wonderful summer holiday in the company of family and friends.
When the new departmental structure was approved, our two new departments were given temporary names. At the end of February, we started a process to find permanent names for them.
All employees at the faculty were invited to send in proposals for new permanent names for the departments, and a committee was established to advise the management group on the final decision on the names. The committee’s membership comprised the heads of department, a representative from each Department Council, a representative from the Academic Council, a student representative and myself.
A total of eleven proposals for departmental names were submitted for the Institute of Language, Culture, History, and Communication, and ten proposals were submitted for the Department of Media, Design, Education, and Cognition.
A significant majority in the committee thought that the temporary names were too long to be made permanent, so they decided to recommend new names for both departments.
After thorough discussions at two meetings in the naming committee, the participants in the second meeting have agreed on the following new names for the departments:
• Institut for Kultur- og Sprogvidenskaber / Department of Culture and Language
• Institut for Design, Medier og Uddannelsesvidenskab / Department of Design, Media and Educational Science
The committee has endeavoured to find names that are not too long while also being as inclusive as possible. Naturally, this has been an extremely challenging task. We are fully aware that there will probably be academic fields that would have preferred different names. With this in mind, work is now being carried out to add an extra level to email signatures and to sdu.dk, so that the specific research environment that you are attached to (such as centre, research group, etc.) will be displayed. In other words, three organizational affiliations will in future be listed: research environment, department and faculty.
I would like to extend my gratitude to the members of the naming committee for their dedicated efforts in connection with this thankless task.
Best wishes,
Simon Møberg Torp
Dean
I hope you have had a wonderful summer holiday in the company of family and friends.
When the new departmental structure was approved, our two new departments were given temporary names. At the end of February, we started a process to find permanent names for them.
All employees at the faculty were invited to send in proposals for new permanent names for the departments, and a committee was established to advise the management group on the final decision on the names. The committee’s membership comprised the heads of department, a representative from each Department Council, a representative from the Academic Council, a student representative and myself.
A total of eleven proposals for departmental names were submitted for the Institute of Language, Culture, History, and Communication, and ten proposals were submitted for the Department of Media, Design, Education, and Cognition.
A significant majority in the committee thought that the temporary names were too long to be made permanent, so they decided to recommend new names for both departments.
After thorough discussions at two meetings in the naming committee, the participants in the second meeting have agreed on the following new names for the departments:
• Institut for Kultur- og Sprogvidenskaber / Department of Culture and Language
• Institut for Design, Medier og Uddannelsesvidenskab / Department of Design, Media and Educational Science
The committee has endeavoured to find names that are not too long while also being as inclusive as possible. Naturally, this has been an extremely challenging task. We are fully aware that there will probably be academic fields that would have preferred different names. With this in mind, work is now being carried out to add an extra level to email signatures and to sdu.dk, so that the specific research environment that you are attached to (such as centre, research group, etc.) will be displayed. In other words, three organizational affiliations will in future be listed: research environment, department and faculty.
I would like to extend my gratitude to the members of the naming committee for their dedicated efforts in connection with this thankless task.
Best wishes,
Simon Møberg Torp
Dean
- Contact Email: msandvei@sdu.dk