News from Department of Social Science and Business

RUC will be responsible for publishing The Journal of Circular Economy, putting focus on sustainability in academic publications.

A new Ph.D. project focuses on violations of the rights of indigenous people when large onshore wind projects are constructed.

RUC-led project receives DKK 13.5 million to collaboratively create an open learning platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The purpose is to support SMEs in fostering digital and sustainable development.

Professor of Politics and Administration, Martin B. Carstensen, has just received a grant to research transitions within the education system and how to structure it to make vocational education more attractive to young students.

Roskilde University has been awarded the editorial role for the most esteemed journal in the field of public administration research worldwide. RUC is the first university outside the USA to receive this honour, following a period where Danish universities have risen among the leaders in the field.

Roskilde University is hosting the European Security and Defence College's (ESDC) flagship programme. This will be the first time a Danish institution hosts the course, with leaders and diplomats from 22 EU countries following the specialised training programme.

Over the next three years, three researchers from Roskilde University will investigate how to ensure sustainable wastewater systems in Ghana. The Danida-supported project will investigate how the various private and public actors can collaborate to achieve the best possible solutions.

At Roskilde University's annual celebration, professors Ann Langley, Karen Lee Ashcraft and Valery Forbes were awarded honorary doctorates.

A PhD on the Italian feminist movement led Kenneth Reinicke into gender studies, where he has established himself as one of Denmark's foremost researchers on men and masculinity. It is both a privilege and a challenge to work in a field where many people have opinions but fewer have respect for knowledge and data, he says here.

Political scientist Jacob Torfing has left a concrete tangible mark on the welfare society with his research on public sector innovation and public-private cooperation. He applied to Roskilde University as a young researcher because there was room for new ideas and entrepreneurship, and he has used that space to build one of the university's strong research environments, The Roskilde School of Governance. And he still considers it a joy to follow the students' project work.