The Russian state-owned news media Sputnik and RT play an almost invisible role on social media during the Danish election campaign, AlterPublics data shows.
The research project AlterPublics at Roskilde University show in a new report how the two Russian state-affiliated media RT and Sputnik have been shared up to the invasion of Ukraine in alternative news environments in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Austria.
Education is enormously important and we should never take that privilege for granted, says Erkan Özden, who is receiving Roskilde University's newly established Honorary Alumni Award.
Associate Professor of Environmental Innovation Thomas Budde Christensen works closely with the construction sector and industry to find ways to reduce resource consumption and increase recycling. He can think of no more important field of research than this, and he is delighted to meet former students who are now in key environmental policy positions, creating concrete change.
Epidemiologist Lone Simonsen became well known in Denmark during the COVID pandemic, but her research on COVID-19 is only one of several highlights in a long international research career. She now heads the PandemiX Center at Roskilde University, because if you want to work with an interdisciplinary approach, you can't get a better research environment than here”, she says.
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.
