Postdoc at CFA Ea Høg Utoft wins Emerging Gender Researcher Award.

Assistant professor of political science Martin Bisgaard has received a grant of DKK 4.9 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) for his research project about what politicians think of voters.

Aarhus University has been named the world’s best research institution within public administration.

Professor of political science Jørgen Møller has received DKK 2.9 million from The Independent Research Fund Denmark for his project about the role of the Catholic church in the making of the Modern Europe.

How big a role do political parties actually play in shaping public opinion? Using unique data, researchers from the Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University have studied how voters’ opinions follow the party they support when the party suddenly changes its position on popular and well-established welfare schemes.

New research provides public health authorities across the globe with a validated visual aid for health communication. The aid is a hope-inducing graph that has been proven to increase engagement in protective behaviour among citizens. With this aid, societies may be able to buy time in the current race between vaccines and the spread of more infectious variants, researchers argue.

New COVID-19 Research: How to make people follow restrictions without appealing to fear.

New research from Frederik Jørgensen, Alexander Bor and Michael Bang Petersen investigates the corona crisis in eight different countries in March 2020.

The support for whistleblowing is lower in Denmark than in a number of other western countries. This could be due to a lack of experience and our high level of trust, but the motive behind whistleblowing is also crucial to the support of the Danes, Thomas Olesen, professor of political science at Aarhus BSS, points out. The Danes’ attitude to whistleblowing is particularly relevant in light of new EU requirements for whistleblower procedures in all Danish companies.