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Work obligations at Department of Economics
Regulation for working hours
Administration
Work duties |
Unit per semester |
Ongoing academic work, such as simple administrative tasks, participation in internal meetings and events, membership of internal committees and councils. The hours are only given to staff in permanent positions (including tenure track) that are not on research leave. |
30 hours per semester |
Leadership positions |
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Deputy Head of Department |
140 hours per semester |
Exam Coordinator |
65 hours per semester |
PhD programme Coordinator |
90 hours per semester |
Master programme Coordinator |
140 hours per semester |
Bachelor programme Coordinator |
140 hours per semester |
Recognition committee leader |
40 hours per semester |
Recognition committee member |
25 hours per semester |
Master thesis committee leader |
40 hours per semester |
Master thesis committee member |
25 hours per semester |
Course group leader |
10 hours per semester |
Quality assurance of exams |
10 hours per semester |
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Various |
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Resource personell (Scientific Worklplace, LaTex, OxMetrix/PcGive, Stata, Excel, Word) |
10 hours per semester for each program |
Library contact |
35 hours per semester |
Memo Editor |
20 hours per semester |
Board member (Department) |
15 hours per semester |
Board member (Faculty) |
5 hours per meeting |
PhD Committee, including PhD seminar (autumn) and assessment of PhD candidates (spring). The hours are only given to members, not the leader of the comittee. |
20 hours per semester |
Attending course in University pedagogy |
As many hours as the course includes |
Member of the Frisch centre council |
5 hours (once a year) |
HSE responsible |
10 hours per semester |
Placement Officer |
15 hours per semester |
Colleague feedback on teaching |
3 hours pr lecturer given feedback |
Recruiter (skolebes?k) |
8 hours for first visit, 6 hours for further visits |
Coordinating seminar/lectures |
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Arranging research seminar |
20 hours per semester |
Arranging Friday seminars |
10 hours per semester |
Lecture at Secondary Education day (faglig-pedagogisk dag) |
6 hours per lecture |
Lecture at "Open Day" (?pen dag) |
6 hours per lecture |
Assessment of applicants
Work duties |
Units per semester |
Screening applications |
0,5 hours per applicant in total for all participants, and up to maximum 100 hours |
Assessment, 1- 5 candidates |
20 hours |
Assessment, 5 or more candidates |
30 hours |
Assessment of promotion |
10 hours per candidate |
Screening amd assessment of lecturer |
Half the rate as noted above |
Interview Committee AEA (only spring semester) |
35 hours per semester |
Exams
Work duties |
Units per semester |
Make exam paper with grading guide |
8 hours per exam |
Make exam papers with grading guide for courses that requires extra effort, for example mathematics, statistics and econometrics |
12 hours per exam |
Quality assurance of exam paper and guideline |
1 hours per exam |
Grading of home exam under 24 h |
1 per assignment |
Grading of written school exam |
0,75 per assignment |
Grading home exam over 24 h and larger assignments, or similar |
1,5 per assignment |
Oral exam |
1 hour per candidate |
Grade complaint |
0,75 per answer |
Grading of ECON4951 - Economic History and Inequality |
1,5 hours per home exam and 0,5 hours per oral exam |
Master thesis
Work duties |
Units per semester |
Supervision (thesis passed) |
30 hours per thesis |
Supervision (thesis not passed) |
10 hours per thesis |
Supervision when revising a thesis |
15 hours per thesis |
Grading - master thesis |
5 hours per thesis |
Grading - oral exam |
1 hour per candidate |
Additional assessment - master thesis |
2 hours per thesis |
Additional assessment - oral exam |
1 hour per candidate |
PhD and disputations
Work duties |
Units per semester |
Supervision |
180 hours for 1 student for 3 years. 120 hours are distributed the first 3 years, the rest are granted when the candidate completes the thesis |
Secondary supervisor |
The hours are distributed in advanced after agreement with the main supervisor and the secondary supervisor(s) |
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Assessment |
20 hours. A 10 hour supplement will be given, if the internal member of the assessment committee has to enter as an opponent. |
Disputation |
8 hours per disputation |
Disputation leader |
8 hours per disputation |
Teaching
Work duties |
Units per semester |
Course Coordinator |
10 hours per course |
Significant changes of a course (example major changes in the curriculum, new ways of teaching seminar or lectures |
15 hours per course |
Development of pedagogical work ( development og new courses or ways to teach a course) |
Invidual assessment |
Visiting hours for students |
20 hours per semester |
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Lecture |
5 hours per teaching hour |
Seminar |
3,5 hours per teaching hour |
Attendance at seminar teacher meeting. Meeting with all the departments student seminar teachers, admin and academic staff. |
2 hour per meeting |
Employees in temporary positions (research fellows and post docs) receive extra hours for new teaching tasks |
10 hours per new teaching task (ex. lectures) |
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Term paper, make and go through |
8 hours per term paper |
Grading of term paper |
0,75 hours per term paper (this includes all kinds of term papers) |
Solution sketch for seminar problems |
2 hours per sketch |
The work is to be recorded in the time sheet in the semester it has been carried out, with the following exceptions:
- Teaching taking place during the summer is to be recorded in the spring semester prior to the teaching.
- Work duties related to exams are to be recorded in the semester when the exams take place.
- Work related to grade complaints is recorded in the following semester.
- Tuition in relation to master's thesis is to be recorded in the semester when the thesis is approved.
- PhD supervision is distributed over 4 years, with an equal amount of work hours per year.
Published Oct. 31, 2015 3:30 PM
- Last modified Nov. 24, 2023 9:36 AM