Research
The Faculty of Humanities' research is anchored across disciplines at the faculty’s two departments. Here, we challenge the relationships, conventions, and constructions that make society function, businesses deliver, and culture interact. Our researchers and teachers ask the big questions every day so we can provide our students with the tools and analyses they need.
News from The Faculty of Humanities
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07.02.2026
SDU and partners receive millions in grant money to develop new concept of Bildung
With a grant of almost DKK 21 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to the University of Southern Denmark and a wide range of partners, a major new research project focuses on investigating the understandings of Bildung in Danish, history and social studies in primary and secondary education and developing a new, interdisciplinary concept of Bildung.
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16.12.2025
Three Carlsberg Grants for Humanities
Three researchers at the Faculty of Humanities receive a total of just over DKK 3.5 million from the Carlsberg Foundation. With projects ranging from nationalism and war history to ancient literature and myths, and design as lived culture, these new grants highlight how ideas from the past shape and influence our understanding of the world today.