News from Department of Social Science and Business

When politicians and city planners propose solutions to the challenges in the deprived neighbourhoods, they often draw on good experiences from other countries. But this can be problematic if you are unaware of differences between the countries, shows new research from Roskilde University.

Even before the #metoo movement began, Associate Professor Kenneth Reinicke from RUC was working on a research project to chart why men violate. The researcher believes that part of the solution could be better sexual education in primary school.

Professor Michelle Pace interviewed by Russia's radio station Sputnik on Denmark's harsh new laws for immigrant 'ghettos'.

In this podcast "How to set up an Israeli settlement" produced by Udposten, postdoc Somdeep Sen explains how statial planning and the physical environment affects our worldview and human perception.

Lindsay Whitfield, Professor (MSO) in Global Studies at Roskilde University and leader of the Center of African Economies, has a new book Economies after Colonialism: Ghana and the struggle for power, with Cambridge University Press.

Research from Professor Michelle Pace shows that integration of young refugees in Denmark should consist of more than just language training and access to the labour market. There should also be more informal activities with Danes of a similar age.

Associate Professor Tobias Hagmann gave a presentation at Centre of African Studies at University of Copenhagen 22 March 2018.

Ethiopia has particularly good prospects for economic growth in an Africa, where the image is more nuanced than it was previously described, says Associate Professor Lindsay Whitfield.

New paper highlights how new taxes and attempts to manage urban space contribute to the constitution of state authority.

New research shows that it is primarily average size municipalities that reap the effects when public services are contracting out. It’s time to adopt a more nuanced and context-specific approach.