The Rector of Roskilde University will continue her work to strengthen the university's relations with the outside world and deliver research that contributes to solving society's challenges, and not least ensure that students have a strong and supportive study environment close to researchers.
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.
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.
Islam and immigration researcher Garbi Schmidt uses history to shed light on contemporary immigration to Denmark, and she is happy to share her research by offering tours of Nørrebro and talking about what has shaped the neighbourhood. Her wish for Roskilde University is more time for in-depth study – including for the students, whose projects deserve greater dissemination.
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.
