
Niels Mejlgaard
Professor, Vice Dean for Research and Talent Development
School of Business and Social Sciences
Aarhus University
Bartholins Allé 14, 1327, 320
8000 Aarhus C, Danmark
E-mail: mejlgaard@au.dk
Phone: +4520290042
EDUCATION
2007: PhD (planning and development), Aalborg University; 2001: MSc (political science), Aarhus University; 1997: BSc (political science), Aarhus University
POSITIONS
2022 - : Vice Dean for Research and Talent Development, Aarhus BSS; 2019 - : Professor, Dept. of Political Science / Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA); 2018 - 2021: Associate dean, Aarhus BSS; 2011 - 2018: Director, CFA; 2010 - 2011: Head of research & deputy director, CFA; 2009 - 2019: Senior researcher, CFA; 2008 - 2009: Associate professor, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University; 2007 - 2008: Postdoc, CFA; 2003 – 2005: PhD fellow, Aalborg University; 2001 – 2007: Research assistant, CFA
VISITS / PART-TIME POSITIONS
2006 - 2012: (Periodic) Part-time external lecturer, Aalborg University; 2005: Visiting fellow, Methodology Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; 1997 – 1998: Erasmus student, L'Iinstitute d'Etudes Politiques, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble, France
RESEARCH PROJECTS / GRANTS
2019 - 2023: Partner, WP leader. ‘Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI’ (SUPER_MoRRI), grant: EC – H2020 (€ 836.000); 2019 - 2022: Coordinator. ‘Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity’ (SOPs4RI), grant: EC – H2020 (€ 920.000); 2019 - 2021: Partner, WP leader. ‘Grounding RRI Actions to Achieve Institutional Change in European Research Funding and Performing Organisations’ (GRACE), grant: EC – H2020 (€ 192.000); 2018 - 2021: Partner, WP leader. ‘Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation Through the involvement of local R&I Actors’ (TeRRItoria), grant: EC – H2020 (€ 164.000); 2017 – 2021: Partner, WP leader. ‘Excellence in science and innovation for Europe by adopting the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation’ (NewHoRRIzon), grant: EC – H2020 (€ 620.350); 2017 – 2019: Co-Principal investigator. ‘Practices, Perceptions, and Patterns of Research Integrity’ (PRINT), grant: Danish Ministry for Higher Education and Science (€ 789.500); 2016 – 2019: Partner. ‘European Network of Research Ethics and Research Integrity’ (ENERI), grant: European Commission – H2020 (€ 115.375); 2015 – 2018: Partner, WP leader. ‘Higher Education Institutions and Responsible Research and Innovation’ (HEIRRI), grant: European Commission – H2020 (€ 126.500); 2014 – 2017: Partner, WP leader. ‘Public Engagement Innovations for Horizon 2020’ (PE2020), grant: European Commission – Fp7 (€ 152.800); 2013 – 2016: Partner. ‘Responsible Research and Innovation in a Distributed Anticipatory Governance Frame. A Constructive Socio-normative Approach’ (Res-AGorA), grant: European Commission – Fp7 (€ 160.000); 2012 – 2015: Principal investigator. ‘Contextualising and Measuring Research Performance’ (CoRe), grant: AU Senior Management’s Strategic Funds (€ 670.000); 2012: Coordinator. ‘EU-start-up, Responsible Research and Innovation proposal’, grant: Danish Research Agency (€ 20.000); 2011: Principal investigator. ‘Videnskab i demokratiets tjeneste’ (Vid-det), grant: Ministry for Science, Technology and Development (€ 47.000) – Declined; 2010 – 2013: Partner. ‘Program of Research on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark’ (PROCEED), grant: Danish Strategic Research Council (€ 254.000); 2009 – 2010: Coordinator. ‘Dansk Forskningspolitik 2000 – 2010’, grant: Aarhus University Research Foundation (€ 20.000); 2008 – 2011: Partner. ‘Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics’ (STEPE), grant: European Commission – Fp7 (€ 47.000); 2007 – 2008: Sub-contractor. ‘Social Sciences and European Research Capacities’ (SS-ERC), grant: European Commission – Fp6 (€ 21.000); 2006 – 2007: Principal investigator. ‘Forskningens Offentligheder’, grant: Danish Strategic Research Council (€ 75.000); 2005: Visiting fellow. Research stay at the Methodology Institute, LSE, grants: Otto Mønsted Foundation, Knud Højgaard Foundation (€4000); 2003 – 2005: PhD project. ‘Scientific Citizenship – Conceptualisation, Contextualisation, & Measurement’, co-funded: AAU and AU; 2000: Scholar project. ‘Academic Freedom’, grant: AU – Faculty of Social Sciences (€ 3.200); 1997 – 1998: Erasmus exchange student. Enrollment at L'Iinstitute d'Etudes Politiques, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble, France, grant: Knud Højgaard Foundation (€2000).
COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
2014 - 2018: Partner, Task leader. ‘Monitoring the Evolution and Benefits of Responsible Research and Innovation’ (MoRRI), grant: DG Research and Innovation, European Commission (€ 257.000); 2014: Principal investigator. ‘Mapping of Danish Research in Research and Innovation’, grant: Ministry of Higher Education and Science (€ 43.000); 2013 – 2016: Principal investigator. ‘Evaluation of two HE reforms (autonomy-reform and quality-reform) for the Swedish Parliament’, grant: Riksdagen (€ 331.000); 2011 – 2012: Sub-contractor. ‘Platform of Local Authorities and Communicators Engaged in Science’ (PLACES), grant: European Commission – Fp7 (€ 10.000); 2009 – 2011: Principal academic investigator. ‘Monitoring Policy and Research Activities on Science in Society in Europe’ (MASIS), grant: DG Research, European Commission (€ 94.000); 2009: Participant. ‘Evaluation of Danish Research Councils’ special programmes for young and female researchers’, grant: Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (€ 120.000).
SELECTED ADVISORY ACTIVITIES
2021 – 2024: National expert, Danish delegation for Horizon Europe ‘Culture, Creativity, and Inclusive Societies’, appointed by Ministry of Higher Education and Science; 2020 – 2021: Scientific advisory group for S&T Eurobarometer, European Commission’s DG Research and Innovation; 2017 – 2020: Reference group for ‘SC6’ in H2020, Ministry of Higher Education and Science; 2016 – 2017: Member. Evaluation Panel on the Norwegian social science institutes for the Norwegian Research Council; 2014 - 2016: Member. Dublin City University’s Research College and Advisory Panel; 2013 – 2014: Chairman. Evaluation of the Norwegian Research Council’s FORFI programme for the Norwegian Research Council; 2011 - : Member. PhD assessment committees at KU, Essex, KTH; 2009 - : Member. Research assistant / postdoc / associate prof. assessment committees at AU, KU, AAU, KTH; 2008 – 2010: Member. Advisory group for the 2010 Life sciences & PUS Eurobarometer, European Commission’s DG Research; 2005 - 2006: Member. Advisory group for the 2005 Biotechnology & PUS Eurobarometer, European Commission’s DG Research.
LOCAL SERVICE
2020: AU working group on career development; 2019 - : Faculty Research Committee, Aarhus BSS; 2018 - : Associate dean, Aarhus BSS; 2018 - : Marie Skłodowska-Curie Master Class, Aarhus BSS; 2017 - : Member. Aarhus University’s Task Force for FP9; 2012 - : Member. Collegial bodies at PS, AU (Institutforum; Medarbejderråd; Forskningsudvalg); 2010 - 2018: Member. Programme Committee for Social Science and Business, Doctoral School for Business and Social Sciences, AU
SELECTED EDITORIAL / PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES
2016 - 2018: Member. Scientific Panel for 1st & 2nd HEIRRI Conference; 2016 - : Member. Editorial board for Public Understanding of Science; 2016: Member. Scientific Panel for 21th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators; 2012: Special issue editor (w. C. Bloch) for Science and Public Policy, 39(10); 2011 - : Member. Editorial board for Forskningspolitikk. 2009 - : Reviewer: Public Understanding of Science; Science and Public Policy; Plos ONE; Politica; Science, Technology, & Human Values; International Journal of Technology Management; European Journal of Engineering Education; Journal of African Studies and Development; International Journal of Learning and Change; JCOM, Journal of Science Communication; Social Epistemology; Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management; Aslib Journal of Information Management; Science Education; Journal of Youth Studies; Glocalism, Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation; Science Communication; Life Sciences, Society and Policy.
SELECTED TALKS
2021: National Ethics Councils Forum, Ljubljana, digital event; 2021: GRACE Final Conference; 2021: UN University, Dresden; 2021: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica Editorial Board, Copenhagen; 2021: ENTIRE final conference, digital event; 2021: European Network of Research Integrity Offices, digital event; 2021:New HoRRIzon Final Conference, digital event; 2021: 7th World Conference on Research Integrity, interim digital event; 2021: Ethics and Research Integrity Officers Network, EARMA, digital event; 2020: RRI talk for Families Share, digital event; 2020: 1st Annual Conference, the SUPER MoRRI project, Leiden; 2019: National Ethics Committees Forum, Iasi; 2019: 6th World Conference on Research Integrity, Hong Kong; 2019: 25th Annual EARMA conference, Bologna; 2019: Tracking Innovation Trajectories in the Complex Economy, Turin; 2019: National Ethics Committees Forum: Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity; 2017: German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina & Volkswagen Foundation: Quality First, individual metrics in research; 2015: Gesellschaft für Evaluation, Vienna: New Challenges for the Evaluation of Science and Research Conference; 2015: Swedish Parliament, Stockholm: Kvalitet og autonomi i svensk videregående uddannelse; 2014: Italian EU Presidency Conference, Rome: SIS-RRI Conference; 2013: CELSIUS group, Dublin: Science and Policy Symposium; 2012: Danish EU Presidency Conference, Odense: Science in Dialogue conference; 2011: European Parliament, Brussels: Hearing on ‘Cisgenesis and European Public Opinion; 2007: Royal Society, London: Workshop on International Indicators of Science and the Public