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.
Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi is a civil engineer, business owner, author, TEDx speaker and, since 2019, Assistant Professor at Roskilde University. She was attracted by the interdisciplinary nature and facilities, which provide her with an optimal environment to continue her research into the use of nanotechnology for the diagnosis of infections.
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.
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.
