Jens Christian Bjerring has received a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship for his research project: “Algorithmic Decision Making: Philosophical Challenges”.

Gauri has received a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship for her research project: “Plastics and the Anthropocene: The Bads Associated with the Goods We Consume”.

Ph.d.-rådet for Uddannelsesforskning har bevilget godt 30 mio. kr. til 12 ph.d.-forskningsprojekter, der med praksisnær forskning i undervisning skal styrke læreruddannelsen og folkeskolen. 8 af projekterne er et samarbejde imellem DPU, Aarhus Universitet og professionshøjskolerne KP, VIA og UCN.

Head of School Bjarke Paarup has appointed two new Deputy Heads of School. Professor Andreas Roepstorff and Associate Professor Marie Vejrup Nielsen are looking forward to becoming part of the school management team.

Fabula-NET: A Deep Neural Network for Automated Multidimensional Assessment of Literacy Fiction and Narratives

Commenting on the power and control of technology the artwork uses the framework of the game 4-Card Monte to explore how we as users are led to believe that we are in control only to find out the game is rigged… The work has been selected for showcase at Ars Electronica Festival.

On 1 September 2020, eleven internationally recognised researchers will take up the position as honorary professors at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. The collaboration with these leading international capacities will help strengthen DPU’s research, both nationally and…

The European Communications Research and Education Association (ECREA) has decided to host its 9th European Communication Conference in 2022 in Aarhus (Denmark). The application was prepared by colleagues from the Department of Media and Journalism Studies in collaboration with Visit Aarhus and a…

Mistrust of scientific expertise can have far-reaching consequences for public health. We have recently seen an anti-vaccine movement that has resulted in a measles outbreak and girls who refused to have the HPV vaccine. Now we are confronted with COVID19, where scientific expertise once again needs…

As a direct result of the spread of the Corona virus and the acute health crisis in Denmark and the rest of the world, the Carlsberg Foundation grants DKK 25 million to a new Semper Ardens project to investigate behavior in both the public space and on social media.