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.

Researchers from Aarhus University, in partnership with VIVE, Aarhus Municipality and Business Academy Aarhus, have received a grant from VELUX FONDEN for a project they call LIVSTEGN (which means “sign of life” in Danish). The project involves close collaboration between researchers, dementia…

Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen has received a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship for the project: The Practical Foundations of Epistemology

Andreas Steen has received conference funding from the Carlsberg Foundation for the conference: China Sounds Abroad: Migration, Motivation and Modernity

Nils Bubandt has received a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship for the project: The Last Paradise on Earth: A Study of Coral Worlds and Their End in Indonesia.

Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen har netop modtaget et Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship til projektet: Towards a Cultural Immunology.

The Danish government and the parties that support it have finalised the country’s annual budget. What will this mean for the faculty in the year ahead? Dean Johnny Laursen gives us his views.