News from Department of Social Science and Business

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.

In a new book, gender researcher Kenneth Reinicke from Roskilde University explores how young men view harassment, masculinity and their own role in relation to women in the wake of #MeToo.

Professor Jacob Torfing is leading a major international project to explore how the public sector can find flexible and innovative solutions in times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than seeking to get back to normal.

Young people who are committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and are combating climate change or tackling other global challenges, may have unequal opportunities to participate, depending on where they come from in the world. How do young people experience the discrepancy between expectations of equal, global partnerships and their very different life circumstances? This is what Associate Professor Mette Fog Olwig from Roskilde University will investigate in a new research project.

The world needs a green transition, but we won't get there if we don't know how to manage and lead the interdisciplinary collaboration that will create the new green solutions. A major new international research project will lead the way.