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Since the beginning a total number of 153 researchers have defended their doctoral theses at the Department.
The Department is part of the Faculty of Social Science and harbours today around 40 teachers and/or researchers, about 70 Ph.D. candidates and about ten administrators.
The aim of the Department is to serve as a bridge between science and society. We have comprehensive and close contact with different groups and networks within national and international research.
The efforts of bridge-building between science and society are to a large extent based on the staff's two-sided activity profiles: deep roots in the research and co-operation with colleagues in other countries, and broad contact areas towards media, politics and public administration.