{"id":92,"date":"2024-10-30T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intra.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:46:30","slug":"reflections-on-recent-strategic-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/2024\/10\/reflections-on-recent-strategic-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on recent strategic discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content-wrapper\"><p>I would like to share reflections on two recent, significant discussions with focus on the School&#8217;s\u00a0strategic direction. On October 16-17, we held a <strong>management retreat <\/strong>centered on key faculty matters, with \u00a0emphasis on reexamining our school\u2019s financial model at a foundational level. I deeply appreciate the openness and collegiality demonstrated by all department heads. Your collective willingness to understand the distinct challenges across departments, coupled with a strong commitment to constructive collaboration, has been invaluable. This exchange has laid a strong foundation and is\u00a0a first step for developing a sustainable, equitable model that aligns resources with departmental and school-wide priorities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, on October 21, we held our \u201c<strong>verksamhetsdialog<\/strong>\u201d with KTH\u2019s leadership, including the president, vice president, faculty dean, and faculty vice dean. This session covered several \u00a0points: our strategies for enhancing teaching revenues, initiatives for sustaining high-quality education programs, the school\u2019s financial performance, and our broader research and reform agenda. A key message conveyed was that research at the SCI school serves as a flagship for KTH, reflecting our success in securing competitive grants and achieving international distinction. However, we highlighted challenges in two particular areas where we feel our potential remains underutilized. First, <strong>theoretical research often lacks access to comparable levels of external funding<\/strong> despite our considerable strength and potential in this domain. Second, research requiring <strong>specialized laboratory resources faces unique funding limitations <\/strong>when compared to larger, more generalized research infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>Both the retreat and the operational\u00a0dialog underscore our shared commitment to fostering an environment of academic excellence through transparent and constructive collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to share reflections on two recent, significant discussions with focus on the School&#8217;s\u00a0strategic direction. On October 16-17, we held a management retreat centered on key faculty matters, with \u00a0emphasis on reexamining our school\u2019s financial model at a foundational level. I deeply appreciate the openness and collegiality demonstrated by all department heads. Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sandra-di-rocco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}