Research projects

Department of Sociology has a strong research culture as a central part of its work. Most members of the academic staff are research active and play an important role in helping the department to remain up to date with the most recent research within its disciplines.

Our research covers themes such as welfare, marginalisation, and many others. Recently, the institute has also been involved in a number of research projects on the on-going Covid-19 epidemic.

In this section, you will find links to current and completed projects as well as links to our research groups and centres.

Current research projects

Below we have collected links to current research projects initiated by researchers at the department or with the department as an important stakeholder.

Find a selection of completed research projects

The Microsociology of Online Deviance

(2023-2026)

Hateful online youth sociality: ExOC (Extreme Online Content)

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(2022-2024)

Digital Divides in Sexual Crime

Digital Divides in Sexual Crime (DOKS). The project investigates differences between digital and non-digital sexual abuse in previous police cases. Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

(2020-2024)

DISTRACT – The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitized Denmark

DISTRACT – The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitized Denmark. Project at the Department of Anthropology (UCPH).
DISTRACT combines data science tools and social science analysis to explore a pressing challenge: the ever more alluring distractions of human attention in the digital age.

(2021-2026) SIBMOB

The Social Mobility of Siblings

The Social Mobility of Siblings (SIBMOB) – Bringing siblings into the comparative study of social class mobility with new methods and data. Project at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

(2023-2024) GRIP

Interventions in Grey-zone markets for Illicit Puffbars and related tobacco products

The project will design an intervention to address the problem behaviour of the online buying and selling of illicit puff bars and related tobacco and nicotine products.

(2021-2024)

See you at the Library? Inequality in Library Use and Cultural Participation in Denmark

The project studies social and geographic inequality in library use and cultural participation in Denmark. The research contribution is to use new “big” data about library takeout and surveydata to describe and explain inequality in reading and cultural participation. The policy contribution is to identify factors among libraries and municipalities (e.g. funding levels, organization, local initiatives) that affecs local library takeout and cultural participation, in particular among disadvantaged groups.

(2022-2025) Skills INCORP

Ensuring retention of high-skilled professionals in Denmark

How are the skills and experiences high-skilled professionals who move to Denmark for work most effectively drawn on for innovation and business growth. Research project at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

(2022-2024)

Green Transport - technology and diversity

The project aims to enhance practical knowledge on how green initiatives in the transportation sector can address and transform municipal and citizens' transportation habits and mobility needs. Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

(2021-2024) REPROCITIZEN

Responsible Reproductive Citizenship in Denmark

ReproCitizen – Responsible Reproductive citizenship in Denmark in the 21^st Century. This project investigates how a responsible reproductive and sustainable citizenship

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