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Higher education boosts earnings and mental well-being after job injuries

Society gains financially by retraining people who have been injured in accidents. This is the conclusion of economists from Copenhagen and Chicago in a new study.

Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen: Constant crisis policy threatens our imagination

Our political imagination becomes impoverished if we can only think in terms of crises and crisis solutions, says Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen.

Predicting Africa’s Future and its Political Ties to Denmark

Stig Jensen, Associate Professor at the Centre of African Studies, has recently been in the media to discuss Africa’s future and Denmark’s politics regarding Africa.

Large Danish food infrastructure collaboration bears fruit

Companies and research communities have achieved new standards of collaboration through the shared state-of-the-art laboratory center, FOODHAY, setting the stage for the development of cutting-edge knowledge and…

Miriam Wüst and Ida Lykke Kristiansen to present at CESifo Workshop on the Economics of Children in November

The workshop on the Economics of Children will be held in conjunction with the 2023 CESifo Munich Lectures in Economics. On 23 -24 November

New PRIVACY book: Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries

Ineke Huysman and former Privacy researcher and colleague Michael Green edited the book. The book contains PRIVACY contributions by Sanne Maekelberg, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakić and Michael Green.

New CMS Report: Small States and Large Weapons

Complex and important decisions must be made when small states buy large arms and other types of defence equipment. Materiel acquisition involves extensive political, organizational, economic, and operational interests…

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Carolina Fabara

15 October - 15 November 2023

Earth Beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

In Science Advances by Richardson, K., Steffen, W., Rockström, J., et al. (2023)

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Virginia Passalacqua

1 - 30 November 2023

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Ioana Sendroiu

17 September - 6 October 2023

Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology - DISTRACT talk with Christian Borch & Nicholas Skar-Gislinge

On Friday the 15th of September, 2023, professor Christian Borch & postdoc Nicholas Skar-Gislinge presented their work entitled ”Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology” in a DISTRACT talk. Abstract: Sociology has…

Cosmopolitan nationalism as an analytical lens: Four articulations in education policy

This paper extends Professor Claire Maxwell’s development of the concept of cosmopolitan nationalism (published in 2020 in the British Journal of Sociology of Education’s 40th anniversary special issue: The current and…

Is Danish research ready for data-driven interdisciplinarity?

Data-driven research is rushing forward with enormous potential, but is easily drowned in practice.

Kliniknær Bæredygtighed - workshop for Ph.d.-vejledere deadline 19/9 (In Danish)

Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has contributed with the article "Methods of Theorizing: A Call for Pluralism" for the special session of "Global dialogue - Magazine of the International Sociological Association".…

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Diego Acosta

Diego will be visiting MOBILE from 11 September to 7 October 2023.

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Eftychia Constantinou

Eftychia will be visiting MOBILE from 1 September to 30 November 2023.

Sociological Foundations of Education

Professor Claire Maxwell has led the writing and editing of the book Sociological Foundations of Education - the most recent and authoritative analysis of the field of sociology of education. It was commissioned by…

The Current State of Social Theory

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden and Arthur Bueno have edited a special session "The Current State of Social Theory" in the Magazine of the International Sociological Association "Global dialogue - Magazine of the…

Official CULTMIND launch 12 September

On Tuesday 12 September, Centre for Culture and the Mind (CULTMIND), the Danish National Research Foundation’s new Centre of Excellence, was officially opened with a festive reception at the Faculty of Humanities.

Research project focuses on children's attention in an everyday life filled with distractions

A new research project from the Department of Psychology aims to improve the academic and social well-being of schoolchildren and, in the long term, their ability to continue in further education.

Six of nine planetary boundaries exceeded

New study led by Professor Katherine Richardson updates the Planetary Boundaries framework and shows human activities are increasingly impacting the planet.

Six of nine planetary boundaries now exceeded

New study led by Professor Katherine Richardson updates the Planetary Boundaries framework and shows human activities are increasingly impacting the planet.