Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

4.18 University of Helsinki, Laboratory for Instruction in Swedish
Overview
The Laboratory for Instruction in Swedish at the UH Department of Chemistry has 
the responsibility for BSc teaching in the Swedish language, and the teaching at this 
level covers inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. In addition, the unit offers 
graduate and postgraduate courses as well as supervision of MSc theses within the 
unit’s research profile, that is, theoretical and computational chemistry. Graduate 
courses and MSc thesis supervision are offered also in organic chemistry. The unit is 
rather small, with one professor and 3–4 senior researchers and lecturers. In addition, 
the unit has on average had 1–2 postdoctoral researchers and four postgraduate 
students. The small size of the unit combined with the diversity of topics that need to 
be covered in the curriculum gives the unit challenges in terms of staff to keep an 
active and homogeneous research profile. The funding of the unit has been fairly 
evenly divided between core and external funding, where the Academy of Finland 
and graduate schools cover 30 per cent of the total funding.