Researcher support

Part of research planning

Data management is an essential part of research quality. The purpose of data management is to ensure that research data are easily accessible, interpretable and appropriately protected during and after the research process.

A data management plan is an essential part of your research plan. The university requires the data management plan to be done in the planning phase of research. Most funders require a proper research data management plan.

Get familiar with the data policies of our university.

Study the guidelines

Making research data related to publicly funded published research openly accessible wherever possible is a prerequisite stated in the university’s data policy. We follow the principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.

You can find our research data management guidelines, services and practices in our guide.

Research data management guide

Support

In the library, we offer you guidance and teaching on data management life cycle and writing a data management plan. We also help with opening your research data and using open data.

IT services offers you solutions for data collection, analysis and storage during your research as well as in information security.

Legal services helps you with data protection, intellectual property rights and contracts.

Contact us

Library:

research.library (at) luc.fi

Library’s services for researchers

IT solutions:

ServiceDesk
servicedesk (at) ulapland.fi
Tel. +358 40 778 5800

Data protection in research

Data Protection Officer
tietosuoja (at) ulapland.fi

Does your research need an ethical review?

Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) has published a short video that will help you to identify if your research requires an ethical review. You will find the link to the video below. If you have any questions, please contact the secretary of our ethical committee.

Request a statement

If your research plan, topic or setting requires ethical review, you can ask our research ethics committee for a statement. The research ethics committee provides statements about the research plans that are submitted to an ethical review by researchers. The review on the research plan and methods is carried out following TENK guidelines. Ethical reviews are intended to cover research in and after the postgraduate phase.

Contact us

Secretary to the research ethics committee

Hanna Peltomaa
hanna.peltomaa(at)ulapland.fi
+358 40 659 8054

Read more about the ethical review

Promoting responsible conduct of research

Our research integrity advisors provide confidential and impartial support in different problem situations concerning research integrity. You may ask for advice and support pre-emptively as well as when you suspect a violation of responsible conduct of research has already taken place.

You can consult the advisor in person, or via phone or email. The advisor has been trained by the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (TENK) as is the TENK contact person at our university.

Contact

Research integrity advisor at the University of Lapland

Hanna Peltomaa
Specialist
firstname.lastname (at) ulapland.fi
Tel. +358 40 659 8054

Read more

Scientific publications

The library supports you in the planning and practicalities of scientific publication. We guide you on how to find a reliable publication channel and help you with publishing agreements and questions related to open access publishing.

Read more about publishing scientific texts.

Get familiar with the publication policies of our university.

We encourage openness

According to the open science policy of our university, scientific journal articles should be openly available. We offer guidance and check if an author can get discounted ACPs. We do not recommend publishing in publications that collect both subscription and ACP fees.

More information on discounted APC fees

University of Lapland as a publisher

For example reports and textbooks can be published with the University of Lapland. The publishing platform is our repository Lauda.

More information about publishing with the University of Lapland.

Our dissertations are published in the Acta electronica Universitatis Lapponiensis series.

Guide for publishing a dissertation

Contact us

Library
research.library (at) ulapland.fi

Library’s services for researchers

Making science visible

You can evaluate the impact of your research with different kinds of methods. It is possible to increase the visibility of your research through self-archiving of publications and social networking services such as ORCID.

The university recommends that all researchers create an ORCID iD, use it actively and link it to the Research Portal of the University of Lapland.

Please remember to keep your profile and publication list updated in our Research Portal.

More information about researcher’s visibility and evaluation.

Get familiar with the open science policies of our university.

A variety of support services

• We give advice on self-archiving of publications or do it for you.
• We instruct researchers and projects on how to update the Research Portal.
• We provide guidance in the use of social networking services for research.
• We help with questions related to the visibility and evaluation of researchers.

Contact us

Library
tietopal (at) ulapland.fi

Research Portal
lacris (at) ulapland.fi

Library’s services for researchers

 

Support and information

Internationalisation Services provide information on our university’s cross-border partnerships. We support researcher and staff mobility primarily in Europe and with our strategic and bilateral cooperation partners.

Further information on application guidelines and periods is available on Intra.

Funding and guidance

We provide

• funding that enables researcher and staff mobility (Erasmus+, DK Mobility, Nordplus, bilateral agreements)
• information on postgraduate student exchange and internships through the Erasmus+ programme
• financial advice concerning the CIMO Fellowship and Fulbright programmes and the funding opportunities provided by our university for incoming researchers.

We do not fund conference trips. You can ask for funding from your own unit.

Contact us

Internationalisation Services
University of Lapland
Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi
E-wing, 1st floor

Guidance for outgoing staff and students:
outgoing (at) ulapland.fi

Guidance for incoming staff and students:
incoming (at) ulapland.fi

English and Finnish language services

The purpose of the language editing service provided by the Language Centre is to support researchers in finalising the language of their work-related texts. The translation service covers translation of texts from Finnish to English and vice versa.

Pricing

Translation and language editing are mainly subject to a charge. Translations are priced according to the number of translation pages. The price for one translation page is 30 euros (translation page = 1,560 characters without spaces). We price language editing on an hourly basis, because the nature and quality of texts vary a great deal. The price for language editing is 30 euros per hour.

Contact information

Language editing and translation service
Translators Aimo Tattari and Sari Kokkola
firstname.lastname (at) ulapland.fi

Support for drafting contracts

When preparing, planning and launching projects, project partners must agree on numerous things. It is best to have these agreements in writing. Read more about the types of contracts drawn up at different stages of projects on the legal project management webpage.

Contact us

Karol Kowalski
Project Lawyer
Research Services
firstname.lastname (at) ulapland.fi
Tel. +358 40 484 4026

Finding funding

Are you planning a research or development project at our university? Do you need help with applying for research and development funding?

Tap into the expertise of our project funding services for help with matters concerning e.g. regional, national, Nordic or European research and development activity.

We offer the following services:

• information about project funding and application periods
• support for planning research and development projects
• legal advice relating to contracts and agreements
• support in the implementation of projects.

For ongoing projects you can receive financial advice from our Financial Services Unit

Contact us

Research Services
University of Lapland
Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi
E-wing, 2nd floor

Make an appointment:
research (at) ulapland.fi
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