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Research

The research conducted at the Faculty of Humanities is anchored interdisciplinarily in our four departments.
Here we challenge the relationships, conventions and constructs that make society work, businesses deliver and culture interact. Our researchers and lecturers ask the big questions every day, allowing us to give our students the tools and analyses they need.
On this page you will find information on research centres, programmes and projects.
If you are already working on a research project at SDU, you can access the Research Support webpage below, which is an information page where you can apply for funding and find guides to applications.
 

Research centers

  • The core faculty, all of whom have also taught at American universities, focus their research entirely on the United States, serving as a focal point for others with related interests on the several campuses of the University of Southern Denmark and in the rest of Denmark
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  • The Research Centre for Computational & Organisational Cognition (CORG) aims at studying cognitive aspects in and around organisations.
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  • This center gathers scholars who investigate technology from a cultural perspective in close dialogue with society.
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  • The Centre aims to develop an interdisciplinary environment for research into sociolinguistic, social psychological and societal phenomena. 
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  • Information about this research center only exist in Danish. 
  • At the Centre for Primary and Lower Secondary Education Research, our vision is to do research in, with and for the primary and secondary school sector. 
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  • Human Health is SDU’s research platform for interdisciplinary research into social and human factors for successful health communication and health intervention.
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  • Information about this research center only exist in Danish. 
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  • The CHI pursues a groundbreaking view of what it is to be human by drawing on synergies of what is best in Cognitive Science and the Humanities.
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  • IRCA is an innovation cluster, which is fostering interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Together with the most important stakeholders in the Danish-German region IRCA is positioning campus Sønderborg.
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  • The Centre for Communication, Culture and Society aims to develop an interdisciplinary environment for research into sociolinguistic, social psychological and societal phenomena.
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  • The Center for Cold War Studies was founded in 2006 with the aim of strengthening research within four main areas: Modern Military History, The Cultural History of the Cold War, Secret Service Activities and The History of Russia, Eastern and Central Europe.
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  • Information about this research center only exist in Danish. 
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  • Center for Learning Computational Thinking (CLCT) was established as a response to the growing societal and research interest in Computational Thinking (CT).
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  • Centre for Medieval Literature (CML) is a Centre of Excellence founded in 2012 and funded for ten years by the Danish National Research Foundation, based at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense) and the University of York.
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  • Nordic Humanities Center is a new research center at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen that brings humanistic perspectives to major societal challenges. Each year, the steering group behind the center appoints a group of researchers from both universities who collaborate for a year on a specific theme.
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  • Once founded as Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies 1983, the Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies is today a multidisciplinary research center on the Modern Middle East and on Muslim majority and minority countries, as well as their transnational dynamics. 
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  • At the Centre for Multimodal Communication we see multimodality as the study of the semiotic resources people use to communicate and the way they use these resources in concrete social settings.
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  • The Center of Narratological Studies (CNS) is a faculty-grounded research unit, and an interdisciplinary, international research network, located at the University of Southern Denmark, Kolding. 
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  • Nordic Humanities Center is a new research center at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen that brings humanistic perspectives to major societal challenges. Each year, the steering group behind the center appoints a group of researchers from both universities who collaborate for a year on a specific theme.
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  • OPC aims to develop an enriching and diverse research environment for its members and collaborative partners.
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  • The Center Organizing Social Sustainability researches standards and processes of “good work".
  • Information about this research center only exist in Danish. 
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  • The main focus of our research is how we reach a mutual understanding through social interactions.
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  • The center is an interdisciplinary research center focusing on different aspects within the areas of L1 and L2 acquisition and use (including bilingualism and multilingualism) by both children and adults, and by typical and atypical populations.
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  • SDU’s research and study programmes derive value from constantly being put into relevant perspectives across disciplines and with a focus on the society we impact with our differences.
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  • Tourism education and research at SDU strives to transform the university into an engaged, collaborative institution where academics and students pursue an unrelenting examination of knowledge, and its uses.
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  • Centre for Medieval Studies at University of Southern Denmark has hosted individual as well as group research projects within a number of fields for more than 30 years.
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  • The Center for Uses of Literature (UoL) is interested in how literature is used in society and what we can use literature for. Using theoretical, hermeneutic and empirical methods, the Center's researchers examine the use of literature, especially in the context of health, welfare, ageing, class, work and gender.
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  • The Center for War Studies (CWS) brings together academics from political science, law, history and culture to contribute to the major debates on the past, present and future of war, and its impact on societies. 
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Research at the Faculty of Humanities

Research projects

Center for Culture and Technology

Human Food Interaction

The field of Human Food Interaction is growing, in direct response to how technology is increasingly permeating human life.
This research stream looks at ways that food as socio-technologically entangled material can be leveraged to understand human behavior and support change.

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Center for Culture and Technology

Computer Games and Ludification

Explorations into how contemporary media – such as cinema, television series, and web content – increasingly adopts to and gets inspired by computer games.

 

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Center for Culture and Technology

Aesthetics in Consumer Electronics Products

Consumer electronics has developed into being a central category of design. Products such as smartphones, activity trackers and mobile smart speakers have set new standards for high functionality and have dramatically changed patterns of habits and behavior.

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Center for Culture and Technology

Educational Technologies and Philosophy

The idea of using machinery in education is about a century old, and it is currently subject of intense discussion. In what ways do various technologies - such as software platforms, robots, and novel use of data - foster or hinder the flourishing of educational values and practices?

 

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Center for Culture and Technology

Interactionalist and User Practices

Interactional perspectives on technology focus on ‘the user’ and emphasize how people make sense of (and with) technology-in-use. 

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Last Updated 13.02.2024