30 new study programmes are to replace Roskilde University’s more than 150 current Master’s subject combinations. This is intended to strengthen the quality of the programmes and raise their academic profile in the eyes of the outside world.
Professor Lone Simonsen has managed to explain complicated new knowledge about the Covid pandemic in a manner that is comprehensible and relevant to Danes at a critical time. For her efforts, the professor will be honoured with the Research Communication Prize 2021.
A new scientific report prepared for the Statens Serum Institut concludes that systematic use of rapid tests for COVID-19 twice a week at, for example, a workplace or school, could reduce new cases of infection by 36-55%. The conclusions are based on a scenario where rapid tests are assumed to be half as sensitive as traditional PCR tests and that everyone in the group is tested.
Professor Sine Nørholm Just, RUC, will be head of a new research project that will enlighten us on how we as a society and people can live with artificial intelligence and algorithms in a good way.
Seven researchers from Roskilde University have just received grants for their research projects from the Carlsberg Foundation. The largest grant of DKK 5 million goes to media researcher Eva Mayerhöffer's research project on alternative right-wing and left-wing media.
Researchers behind the H2020 SIRIUS EU-funded research project point out that there is great potential in efforts to promote labour market integration if the qualifications of migrants - from their home countries - are taken into account to a greater extent.
