Department of Sociology

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Benedikte Brincker has been appointed professor at the Department of Sociology

Rector has appointed Head of Department Benedikte Brincker as new professor at the Department of…

Innovative union services and non-standard workers in Denmark

In a new report Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe takes a closer look at how new innovative trade unio…

Professor emeritus Jesper Due has passed away

Professor emeritus Jesper Due passed away the 23. December

Schools managed to prevent increased learning gaps during the corona crisis

School closures during the corona crisis had little impact on the reading proficiency of Danish…

Why do labour platforms negotiate?

In a new article Anna Ilsøe and Trine P. Larsen investigates why digital labour platforms are…

Three dimensions of institutional contention

In a new article in Socio-Economic Review Martin B. Carstensen and Christian Lyhne Ibsen develops a…

Vocational education shapes students’ personality

Do young people become more conscientious by getting an education? Yes, if it is a vocational…

Study aims to prevent violence against staff working in residential care

Staff working in residential care institutions for children and youth are regularly exposed to…

Marginal part-timers experience poorer health and safety than full time workers

A new study demonstrates a correlation between low number of weekly work hours and poor health and…

Covid-19 clinical trials ignore gender differences

Although the coronavirus affects men and women differently, most clinical trials do not mention…

New frontiers of unionization and innovative services

FAOS is hosting an online lunch webinar on 1. of July about non-standard work and innovative policy…

Ticket inspection

Five types of passengers: How we respond to fines on the bus

As passengers we respond very differently when caught without a valid ticket on the bus. Using vide…

Skills for the Future? A Life Cycle Perspective on Systems of Vocational Education and Training

In a new article, Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Amanda Chuan ask how the institutional design of…

Green network to strengthen cross-disciplinary research into green transition

A new research network, The Governance of Green Transition, under the Faculty of Social Sciences,…

Five research projects from the Department of Sociology represented at the conference Pandemic Societies

The conference brings together 16 sociological research projects, including five projects from the…