Aarhus University has won funding for the large project “Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations” (COLUMN). The project is co-financed by the ERC Horizon Europe Program and the Swiss National Science Foundation for a total of 4,483,595 euros.

Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy Susana S. Fernández from Aarhus University is leading the research project “When Danish Emerges: Intercultural Pragmatics in the Teaching of Danish as a Second Language,” which aims to rethink the acquisition of Danish as a second language for migrants.

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In a new study published in the scientific journal Science Advances, computational archaeologists from University of Colorado and Aarhus University have analysed four resilience strategies: investment in infrastructure, exchange, mobility and economic adjustment. Using simulations, they have mapped…

Rubina Raja, Professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University, has received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung for an international research project that will shed new light on "forgotten" ancient cities such as Antiochia, Gerasa and Palmyra.

The research project "LIVSTEGN" has, over four years, examined how surveillance technology can be used to assist care staff in working with citizens with dementia who are at risk of getting lost— a serious societal issue that has, in several cases, led to fatalities. Now, the researchers behind the…

The largest Carlsberggrant for the humanities this year goes to an ambitious project on the global historical importance of ancient visual culture. At the head of the project is Professor of Classical Archaeology Rubina Raja, who has received a Semper Ardens Advance grant from the Carlsberg…

A ridge near Nørresundby, Lindholm Høje, will be the focal point of a new research project that associate professor Sarah Croix from Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies with funding from the Carlsberg Foundation will now have the opportunity to realise.

Associate Professor Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen from the Department of English has received a grant of 200,000 DKK from the Carlsberg Mindelegat for a research communication project named "Spirits of Language Entanglements" on the contemporary interrelationships between English, Greenlandic, and Danish.…

A new study challenges the notion that coins revolutionized Europe’s economy. Using archaeological data and quantitative analysis, postdoc Nicola Ialongo demonstrates that the introduction of coins in Europe during the Roman Republic did not fundamentally alter pre-existing monetary flows.

Parents, politicians, researchers, teachers often and in different contexts discuss their concerns about how the internet affects children and young people. "But in fact, we know very little about the way the early internet has shaped the ways children use digital media today," says Helle…