Ongoing Projects
Dialogue and Reconciliation: Potentials and Pitfalls of Building Bridges through Deliberative Citizen Assemblies
In Western democracies, there is growing concern about increasing polarization among citizens and declining trust in representative democracy. This project investigates whether both polarization among citizens and gaps between citizens and politicians can be addressed through the use of deliberative citizen assemblies, where randomly selected citizens meet to discuss important issues with guidance from experts, often with the aim of formulating a series of recommendations for politicians. Through an experiment, the project will examine whether participation in such citizen assemblies can affect polarization among citizens depending on how participants make decisions in the assembly. Additionally, the project will focus on two major citizen assemblies in Danish municipalities that will discuss climate adaptation and welfare policy, and analyze the assemblies' effects on trust in political institutions among both participants and the broader citizenry in the municipalities.
For further information, contact Ph.D. student Eugen Chapiro (echa@sam.sdu.dk).
High absenteeism is one of the biggest challenges in the labor market, leading to significant economic and personal costs for both individuals and companies. There is great potential in reducing and preventing absenteeism in parts of the public sector that struggle with high absenteeism.
This Ph.D. project investigates a range of measures that have been implemented in various workplaces in the public sector. The measures aim to improve the working environment and reduce absenteeism. The project uses statistical methods to analyze the impact of these measures on the working environment and absenteeism, based on the workplaces' own data.
Research in labor economics is a relatively new field, and this project also aims to contribute new knowledge and practical recommendations in the area. This is done by developing an economic model that compares the costs of the measures with the potential savings associated with reduced absenteeism.
The project is carried out in collaboration with the National Research Center for the Working Environment.
For further information, contact Mikala Ernebjerg Jakobsen (mijak@sam.sdu.dk).
Democracy and Terrorism – How Civil Rights Affect Terrorism
This project aims to investigate how civil rights affect the level of terrorism that states experience. The study addresses a central debate in the literature, where civil rights are argued to either reduce terrorism by providing peaceful outlets for dissent or increase it by enabling exploitation by terrorist groups. By using large-scale quantitative analyses and qualitative case studies, the project seeks to disentangle these effects across different categories of civil rights, such as personal integrity, legal equality, private freedoms, and political freedoms.
The results aim to provide a robust understanding of how civil rights affect terrorism and contribute evidence-based insights to political debates on balancing civil liberties and security.
For further information, contact Lasse Skjoldager Eskildsen (laes@sam.sdu.dk).
Greenland’s heightened role and influence in security and defence policy
This project investigates Greenland’s heightened role and influence in security and defence policy. The Arctic is undergoing seismic shifts in its security dynamics, caused by accelerating climate change and intensifying great power competition. Greenland is increasingly becoming a central regional actor and has in recent years gained more influence in the areas of foreign, security, and defence policy. Having a small population and being a semi-independent territory under the state of Denmark, Greenland faces several challenges when navigating the security landscape and great power competition in the region. This involves dealing with a complicated post-colonial constellation and sometimes conflicting interests between Greenland and Denmark, while tackling the pressure from the great powers, which can be a challenge considering Greenland’s population size and central administration size compared to that of the US, China, or Denmark.
The aim of this project is to gain a deeper understanding of how Greenland shapes its approaches to security and defence matters, as well as the reciprocal influence between the Greenlandic and Danish approaches, and how Greenland navigates the new security dynamics in the Arctic.
For further information, contact Signe Lyngholm Lindbjerg (silin@sam.sdu.dk).
Assembling Artificial Intelligence and Civilian Harm Mitigation
The advancement of AI has significantly impacted the defense and security sectors, presenting both opportunities and challenges in mitigating civilian harm during military interventions. This PhD project will critically examine how AI systems, when integrated into Civilian Harm Mitigation frameworks, or, conversely, viewed from a civilian protection angle, influence the complex interplay of actors, technologies, and logics that constitute modern military organizations and interventions.
Building on the concept of assemblage as well as international practice theory more generally, this research will analyze AI’s role in transforming international intervention assemblages and civilian protection in conflict. The project thus seeks to contribute to academic debates on the impact of AI in the military domain and by focusing on the understudied civilian protection aspect. It thereby also aims at contributing to public debates on the ethics and impact of AI on military organizations and operations.
For further information contact ph.d.-student Oscar Noach (osn@sam.sdu.dk)
Please see completed Ph.D. projects here
Year
| Name |
Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Sara Ravnkilde Nielsen | January | Relationship-Oriented Leadership in Public Organizations |
| Name |
Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Jens Lemb |
February | Recruitment and Turnover in Public Organizations” |
| Jonas Alexander Whittlestone |
April |
Information Resources in Political Advocacy |
| Anna Nadibaidze |
June |
Exploring Artificial Intelligence in International Relations: Technologies, Practices, and Status |
| Name |
Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Sofie Rose | March | Stigma, Gender, and Violence Rethinking the Stigmatization of Survivors Of Wartime Abuses |
| Marta R. Neves | April |
Contested Neighborhoods: The Tensions Between Symbolic and Social Boundaries and their Social and Political Implications |
| Morten Thomsen |
April |
The perception and communication of pesticides and biocides |
| Per Lindgaard | May | Spatial and Temporal Complexity of Military Doctrine |
| Mikkel Storm Jensen | May | Offensive Cyber Capabilities and Alliances – Questionable Assets for Prestige, New Risks of Entrapment |
| Lola Aubry |
June | Interfering with Borders, Becoming-with Others |
| Christina Pontoppidan | June | Hvad er vinkling? En kortlægning og kvalificering af journalistikkens og retorikkens forståelse og brug af vinkling |
| Peter Rasmussen Damgaard | August | Public Service Users’ Responses to Performance Feedback |
| Kenneth Kristensen | September | Towards Digital Era Leadership |
| Name |
Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Vasiliki Karyoti |
January |
Politics of Exclusion in Military Institutions |
| Daniel Tallat Rønn Shakoor |
April |
European national intelligence services in the 21st century. The Danish case: Danish Defence Intelligence Service – the intelligence cycle as an anachronistic straight jacket in a dynamic and a turbulent region |
| Michael Gjerstad |
June |
The Shaping of Military Change: A Study of Russia’s Military Culture |
| Marie Robin | November | The Strategic Values of Revenge. The Case of Jihadist Terrorist Propaganda (Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Boko Haram) 2001-2020 |
| Name |
Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Tanja Marie Hansen | May | Terrorism – Why Not Claim It While You’re at It? |
| Name |
Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Jeppe Teglskov Jacobsen |
June |
The Lacanian lens in critical security studies. The Four Discourses and the US subjects of insecurity in cyberspace |
| Pål Røren |
November |
Socializing Status in Global Politics: Collectives, Orders, and Recognition |
| Maja Müller |
November |
Udsat for samskabelse. Bottom-up perspektiver på samskabelse mellem udsatte grupper og frontmedarbejdere i socialt arbejde |
| Gry W. Falkenstrøm | December | Diplomatic Stratcom |
| Name | Month | Titel of PhD dissertation |
| Mats Joe Bordacconi | September | Motivated Selective Exposure. How Need for Cognition and Need to Evaluate Influence Selective Exposure to Political New |
| Christoffer Florczak |
November |
Public Service Motivation, Personality and Decision-making: Combining Public Administration and Psychological Perspectives |
| Mads Andreas Elkjær |
December |
Inequality and Political Representation |
| Jesper Asring Hansen |
December |
Antecedents of Innovation in the Public Sector |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung |
January |
Beyond the border: A history of minority youth identities in the Danish-German border region, c. 1955-1971 |
Postdoc, University of Southern Denmark
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Camilla Nexøe Klitgaard |
December |
A presentation and discussion of the theoretical arguments and underlying causal mechanisms of howpolitical attitudes and behavior are related to genetic and psychological dispositions |
Consultant, Gladsaxe Municipality |
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Erik Gahner Larsen |
November |
Government Policies and Public Opinion. How and When Government Policies Matter for Mass Political Behaviour |
Research Assistant, University of Southern Denmark |
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André Ken Jakobsson |
September |
The Classical Realist Conversation: From Ancient Greece to Contemporary America – Losing Real Man and Abandoning the Tragedy of the Political |
Research Assistant, University of Copenhagen |
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Søren Schultz Jørgensen |
August |
Gamle medier er også sociale - En kvalitativ undersøgelse af mediernes rolle og betydning i brugernes hverdag |
Owner and runs Kontrabande |
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Mette Buskjær Christensen |
June |
National Parliaments in the EU post-Lisbon: Parliamentary responses to institutional change |
EU Advisor, Copenhagen EU Office |
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Søren Skaarup |
June |
The Mediation of Authority – how citizens perceive and engage the Bureaucratic Service Encounter and changes in its mediation matrix |
Senior Consultant, Rambøll Management Consulting |
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Helle Mølgaard Svensson |
May |
Processing Economic News |
Researcher, LEGO |
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Jacob Barfoed |
January |
The Challenges of Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in the GulfWar |
Military Reasearcher,Institute for Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College |
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Carina Meyn |
January |
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Practical Theoretical Study of Nuclear Sense Making in America |
Associate Professor, Defence Academy
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Andreas Westberg |
November |
Princes of Predation, Thieves of Disorder – A Study of Somali Piracy 1991-2015 |
The Danish Ministry of Defence |
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Anne Kirstine Hermann |
October |
Ethnographic Journalism |
Journalistic lekcture, University of Southern Denmark |
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Antonis Kalogeropoulos |
August |
Communicating the economy: The effects of exposure to economic information on learning, attitudes and evaluations |
Postdoc, Oxford Universitet |
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Jakob AarøeJørgensen |
June |
NATO and the Middle East - The Geopolitics of a Controversial Marriage |
Head of Section, Royal Danish Defence Academy |
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Dorthe Lund Kaack |
March |
De parlamentariske udvalgssystemer i Skandinavien. En kamp for adgang |
Consutant, Odense Municipality |
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Name
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Month graduated
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Title of PhD dissertation
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Current position (April 2017)
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Lene Rimestad
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December
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Encouraging and inhibiting idea Development at morning meeting in the newsroom
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Journalist, researcher, teacher og coach, self employed
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Niels Opstrup
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November
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Causes and Consequences of Performance Management at Danish University Departments
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Postdoc, Syddansk Universitet
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Niels Dyhrberg |
November
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Om professionelles oplevelser af resultatmålinger- årsager, meningskonstruktioner, mekanismer og virkninger
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Analyst, The National Audit Office of Denmark
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Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen
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May
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Is Education the Universal Solvent? Why personality, intelligence and social context complicate our understanding of the role of education for good democratic citizenshipNATO and the Middle East - The Geopolitics of a Controversial Marriage
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Copenhagen Municipality
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Bert Nico Bakker
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May
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Personality and Politics: Direct and Indirect Assosiations between the Five Factor Model and Political Attitudes
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Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam |
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Xianwen Kuang |
April |
How effective is political control over the news media? Political censorship and news production in authoritarian China |
Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong- Liverpool University |
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Henrik Boesen Lindbo Larsen |
January |
Democratic Realism and NATO: A Neoclassical Explanation of NATO's Democratic Agenda in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Afghanistan |
Political advisor at the Delegation of the EU to Ukraine
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017)
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Dan Bonde Nielsen
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October
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Kommunale reorganisering: En analyse af danske kommuners administrative reorganisering efter strukturreformen |
Chief Consultant, Odense Municipality |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Heidi Jønch-Clausen |
November |
Kamppladser og kommandorum. En analyse af valgreportagens retorik |
Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark |
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Jakob Askham-Christensen |
September |
Does Political Competition Influence Government Responsiveness in Parliamentary Systems? |
Managing director, Pro Grege Consulting |
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Malene Ladegård Thøgersen |
June |
Institutionelle omgivelser og foreningslivet. |
Analyst, The Danish Institute for Non-formal Education |
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Simon Krogh |
March |
Årsager til og konsekvenser af institutionelle reformer- den danske regionscase |
Head of Secretariat, Odense Municipality |
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Name
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Month
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Title of PhD dissertation
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Current position (April 2017)
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Kenneth Reinecke Hansen
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December
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Aktualitetsfeaturens dramaturgi. En analyse af forholdet mellem produktion og dramaturgi i den emnealmene aktualitetsfeature
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Associate Professor , Metropolitian University College
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Tina Birgitte Brinch Sørensen
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November
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The Economis Consequences of Trustworthiness
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Cheif Consultant /Research coordinator, Svendborg International Maritime Academy
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Jakob Sinding Skött
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October
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The Empire of Equipoise- British Imperialism and Foreign Policy, c. 1550-2011
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Lecturer, Nyborg Gymnasium
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Lis Holm Petersen
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September
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Forholdet mellem subjektiv og social ret/pligt- holdninger til velfærdsstatens ydelser
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Associate Professor, University College Lillebælt
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Anders Bo Rasmussen |
April |
Fra Nørrebro til New York- Den fjerde statsmagts forhold til magten |
Assistant Professor , University of Southern Denmark |
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Ida Skytte Jakobsen |
January |
Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective |
Docent, University College Lillebælt |
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Nael Jebril |
January |
Resiliens som forståelse i socialt arbejde |
Associate Professor, Bournemouth University |
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Name |
Month |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Morten Skovsgaard Hansen |
December |
The Danish Journalist |
Associate Professor, Syddansk Universitet |
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Arjen van Dalen |
November |
Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective |
Associate Professor, Syddansk Universitet |
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Signe Pihl-Tingvad |
October |
Selvledelse og psykisk arbejdsmiljø i det grænselæse arbejde |
Associate Professor, Syddansk Universitet |
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Michael Agner |
April |
Moving 'Beyond the State: Neoclassical Realism's Contribution to the study of NATO |
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State |
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Name |
Month |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current positions (April 2017) |
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Sune Welling Voigt |
September |
Towards Genesis or the Grave. Financial Effects of Local Government Merges |
Associate Professor, University of Sothern Denmark |
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Rasmus Leander Nielsen |
June |
The Logic of EU-Referendums |
Assistant Professor, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) |
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David Nicolas Hopmann |
April |
Politically Biased Coverage of National Election campaigns? Studies on Danish Television News |
Professor WSR, Syddansk Universitet |
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Jonas Nygaard Blom |
March |
Mediesyntaks: Om sætningskompleksitet og talesprog på DR og TV 2 |
Associate Professor, University of Sothern Denmark |
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Mogens Kamp Justesen |
March |
Political Institutions, Property Rights, and the Quest for Prosperity |
Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School |
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Christian Elmelund-Præstekær |
January |
Kammertoner og unoder i dansk valgkamp- Partiernes positive og negative, person- og politikfokuserede kampagner 1994-2007 |
Head of Department, Syddansk Univeristet |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Anders Brøndum |
February |
Faglig bæredygtighed- udviklingen af en definition og forståelse af, hvordan den faglige bæredygtighed udvikles i den kommunale sektors opgaveløsning |
Section leader, Tendering and Procurement, Holbæk Municipality |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Jens Rigsmose |
June |
"Frihedens assurancepræmie" Danmark, NATO og forsvarsbudgetterne |
Head of Research, Royal Danish Defence College |
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Kurt Houlberg |
April |
Kommunestørrelse, økonomi og demokrati |
Head of Program, KORA |
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Maciej Wilga |
March |
Approaching 'Pluribus Unum' in EU high politics: Explaining the CFSP emergence and institutional Development from Maastricht to the 2003/41GC |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Poul Skov Dahl |
May |
Standardisering som reguleringsform |
Chief Operation Officer for Professional Development and Educational Resources , University College Lillebælt |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Rens van Munster
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December
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Migrants as a Risk Class? The Securitisation and Desercuritsation of Immigration in the EU
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Senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies
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Robert Klemmesen
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October
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Insulating Change?The Use of the Negotiated Informal Party Settlement in the Danish Parliament 1953-2001
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Professor WSR, University of Southern Denmark
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Hanne Jørndrup |
August |
Journalistik midt i en krigstid: En analyse af journalistikkens forhold til det nationale set gennem danske avisers dækning af Irak-krigens udbrud i marts 2003 |
Associate Professor, Roskilde University |
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Name |
Month graduated |
Title of PhD disseration |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Gitte Meyer |
November
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Offentlig fornuft? Videnskab, journalistik og samfundsmæssig praktik
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Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School
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Kenneth Søren Christian Lynggaard
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June
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The Common Agriculture Policy and Dynamics of Institutional Change
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Associate Professor, Roskilde University
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Peter Bro |
June |
Aktionsjournalistik- Holdningen, historien og håndværket |
Professor, University of Southern Denmark |
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Kasper Møller Hansen |
April |
Deliberative Democracy and Opinion Formation |
Professor, University of Copenhagen |
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Name
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Month graduated
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Title of PhD dissertation
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Current position (April 2017)
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Mette Sicard Filtenborg |
March |
Etablering af Strategiske partnerskaber i EU-anliggender |
Head of Corporate Affairs Department, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) |
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Derek Beach
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January
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Bringing negotiations back into the study of European integration: How negotiations affect the ability of supranational actors to gain influence in IGC's
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Professor, Aarhus University
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Name |
Month and year graduated |
Title of PhD dissertation |
Current position (April 2017) |
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Klaus Levinsen
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November 2002
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Unges politiske værdier- i et generationsperspektiv
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark |
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Iliana Kohler |
November 2001 |
Adult and Old-Age Mortality Dynamics in Bulgaria and Russia |
Research Assistant Professor,University of Pennsylvania |
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Vibeke Norman Andersen |
October 2000 |
Reformer i folkeskolen. Relationer mellem aktører i det lokale skolefelt |
Head of Research, KORA |
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Ulrik Kjær |
May 2000 |
Kommunalbestyrelsernes sammensætning- Rekruttering og repræsentation i dansk kommunal politik |
Professor, University of Southern Denmark |
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Rikke Berg |
December 1999 |
Den 'gode' politiker. Et studie af politiske ledelsesværdier i kommunerne |
Director of Development, Assens Minicipality |
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Roger Buch Hansen |
May 1998 |
Lokale partiorganisationer |
Head of Research, Danish School of Media and Journalism |
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Morten Balle Hansen |
December 1997 |
Kommunaldirektøren- Marionet og Dirigent. En organisationssociologisk undersøgelse af struktureringen af kommunaldirektørens arbejde med udgangspunkt i et aktør-struktur perspektiv |
Professor WSR, Aalborg University |
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Niels Ejersbo |
April 1996 |
Den kommunale forvaltning under omstilling. En organisationsteoretisk analyse af effekter af forfatningsændringer ud fra et ledelsesperspektiv og et læringsperspektiv |
Senior reseacher, KORA |