Report categories

The Tech Faculty Management decided at the meeting on 6 May 2025 that the report category Research report, which was introduced after the Faculty Management Committee's decision on 20 March 2020, will be abolished. In the future, research can be published as a peer-reviewed article or as a popular science article in journals, but not as a report at Tech.

Requisitioned research and other projects that are in the nature of advisory and that are to be published under Tech must in future be prepared under the entire processes of the quality management system, so that the centre unit is involved from start to finish in the project.

Thus, the reports published by departments and centres under Tech will in future be covered by one of the following report categories:

1. Consultancy reports
   Reports for the purpose of reporting science-based advice and monitoring, which are addressed at the request of the authorities and other requisitioners, including reports on science-based advice under the frame work agreement with the ministries.
2. Consultancy notes
   As 1., just not published as actual reports. Often short, often with a short dead line.
3. Communication reports
   Communication of already published research, including peer-reviewed research. In order to be published in this category, reports must have a significant public interest, either for clearly defined target groups or for the general public.

Please note that all reports must be quality assured in accordance with Tech's quality management system for science-based advice.

It must be stated on the cover of the report to which category the report belongs and the report category in question must be described in or near the colophon. Apart from that, the report categories do not give rise to any new formal requirements.

At its meeting on 6 May 2025, the Faculty Management set up a working group to look at the overall reporting landscape at Tech. The working group consists of the two centre directors from DCA and DCE, a head of department from each of the centres and the vice-dean for outreach.

The report category in question can be determined by answering the following question:

Does the report provide research-based public-sector consultancy or monitoring requested by an external requisitioner?

• Yes, the report deals with research-based public-sector consultancy. Should the answer be published as "public" report, using a report layout? If "Yes", the report is a 1. Consultancy report. If "No", the report is a 2. Consultancy note.
  

• No, the report does not address research-based public-sector consultancy. Does the report provide research-based knowledge that cannot wait for a peer review publication? If "Yes", the report is a 3. Research Report. If "No", the report is a 4. Communication report.