A new international research and education partnership has received seed funding from DANIDA to develop a long-term collaboration between universities in Denmark and Africa. The project is headed by Nick Shepherd, associate professor of archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage…

A new study from the Center for Humanities Computing and the Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text at Aarhus University shows that star ratings of books are not always accurate. Average ratings on Goodreads can hide both literary classics and highly divided reading experiences – and can therefore…

The Carlsberg Foundation has recently awarded a total of 11.5 million DKK to five research projects at the Department of Communication and Culture. These projects cover a wide range of topics, including Danish dialect collections, how humans and AI collaboratively create hidden patterns, regional…

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming municipalities’ digital solutions. In a new project, researchers from Digital Design and Information Studies will examine how municipalities understand and address ethical challenges in the design, development, and adaptation of AI systems.

Six students from Aarhus University are participating in an interdisciplinary programme at the company Systematic, where they are jointly working on an innovative project aimed at developing a solution that promotes health, well-being, and quality of life. Along the way, they receive guidance in…

Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska has for years worked to promote multilingualism and intercultural understanding. Her efforts have led the French Ministry of Culture to appoint her a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Researchers in Sound Studies, Associate Professor Marie Koldkjær Højlund and PhD student Sissel Raahede Lundgård, have become members of an international working group on ISO standards in acoustics and soundscapes. Here, they will contribute knowledge and experience on how good sound environments…

A new Open Access article in the renowned journal Antiquity sheds new light on glass production, glass recycling, trade and settlement in one of the hubs of antiquity, the area around the Red Sea, today southern Jordan. Using high-precision analyses of glass from Khirbet al-Khalde – a military…

Professor Rubina Raja has been awarded the Carlsberg Memorial Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for the podcast series Urban Opinion, which makes new knowledge about urban archaeology and cultural heritage available to a wide audience.

A new research project examines how the popular movements around the year 1900 helped shape Danes' trust in each other and in democracy – a cultural heritage that still characterises our society today. Senior researcher Sasja Emilie Mathiasen from the Centre for Grundtvig Research will lead the…