News from Roskilde University

This year's enrolment reflects the fact that Roskilde University has received 6% more 1st priority applications than last year.

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.

Prof. Mushtaq Khan gave a seminar at the Center of African Economies on 24 May 2018 about the new Anti-Corruption Evidence (SOAS-ACE) research programme that he is heading.

Roskilde University has moved up from the interval between 101-150 to number 97 in the Times Higher Education Young Universities.