This is a public database of research institutions and projects that want to host science journalists for their FRONTIERS Residencies.
The Hosts Database contains expressions of interest received by the FRONTIERS Team and these are a great starting point for applicants. However, an institution does not have to be in this Database to be eligible as a host institution. Journalists are encouraged to do their investigation and contact the research institutions that best fit their project.
If you have any questions or feedback about this database, please check out the FRONTIERS Program Guide and Frequently Asked Questions pages, or write to support@frontiersmedia.eu.
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Innovating to Enhance Dialogues on Migration Policies and Practices
The INNOVATE project is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe R&D programme. The project aims to facilitate a step change in the types, scope, forms and impacts of Migration Research to Policy (MR2P) engagement. It does so through a series of Actions that develop, test, apply and communicate Process Innovations that are grounded in the needs and interests of researchers, policy-makers and other key stakeholders, including migrants, who are engaged with migration issues across governance levels from the local to the international. It embeds these within an MR2P Co-Lab with both a ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ presence comprising a Research Exchange, Engagement Hub and Training Facility.
Contact PersonAndrew Geddesandrew.geddes@eui.euHosting ConditionsThe Centre provides Visiting Fellows with access to hot desks and EUI research facilities including library resources and participation in all relevant academic events. Fellows have access to all EUI facilities including cafeteria and recreational facilities. The Centre does not offer a financial contribution.
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University of Graz – Digital Humanities
The digital preservation of and digital research into our cultural heritage is the aim of the Department of Digital Humanities. In terms of content, the semantic and formal indexing and mediation of digital representations of cultural artifacts is the central research topic of the department. One of the most recent and most interesting projects is GlossIT, analysing glosses – annotations to medieval texts – in their function as first-hand testimonies for the close linguistic and cultural connections between Insular Celtic and Latin speakers. Glosses are fingerprints of the society in which texts were composed, copied, and read. Most important, they offer insights into the multilingual and multi-ethnic environment of medieval manuscript and text production. The project acquired an ERC Consolidator Grant in late 2023.
Read MoreAnother project – funded by the ERC with an Advanced Grant – explores the interaction of human and artificial intelligence in a virtual research environment for medieval studies. Computers need lots of examples to “learn” – and they need people to interpret the suggestions they make. Man and machine collaborate in investigating more than 600,000 medieval and early modern legal documents on the web portal monasterium.net. In order to properly classify these stories, you need to know what people in the past wanted to record in documents, how they did it and what they used them for. Researchers investigate European trends and regional differences in the design and use of 14th and 15th century charters. What influence did pan-European political institutions such as the Roman Church have on regional documentary practice? How did local and regional notarisation practices react to the spread of Roman law among the legal thinkers of Europe? How do the two widespread authentication practices, by seal and by notarial signature, relate to each other? The observations made on the digital representations of the documents will be related to major European events such as the Western Schism (1378-1417) or the Great Plague (1348/49) and the ensuing economic crisis.Cutting-edge historical research is also conducted at the Department of Classics. The project COLLAPSE is questioning our notion of authorship in ancient texts, since in antiquity texts were the universal commons of all those who drew on them. This problem forms the starting point for the research. Imperial Greek literature serves as a fertile ground to re-think anonymised text production. Contrary to the assumptions of romantic genius aesthetics, the project regards authorship as a collaborative cultural practice of the Pre-Modern World. It takes up current developments, such as the popular fanfiction narratives on digital platforms, considering these approaches to canonical texts as diachronic forms of co-authorship.
Contact PersonDagmar Eklaudedagmar.eklaude@uni-graz.atHosting ConditionsThe journalist in residence will be part of the team of the Communications Office and will have an individual desk with LAN and WIFI and all the necessary infrastructure there – including a small kitchen with coffee maker, kettle, fridge and microwave. Six editors working at the Communications Office are former journalists and will be there to establish contacts, guide and help if necessary. The guest will have access to the premises 24/7, access to the library and online resources, and the same rights and possibilities as university members. Many of the employees work from home one day per week, but there is always somebody present during the opening hours and can be contacted for assistance. Working hours are flexible. The team of the Communications Office is looking forward to welcoming an international journalist and ready to help in all possible ways.
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Leibniz Institute of European History
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz is an independent research institute. Its purpose is to conduct academic research on European history. The Institute fulfils this purpose through the individual and joint research efforts of its staff and through the research scholarships and fellowships that it awards to academics both from Germany and abroad.
Read MoreIn 2024, it started its new IEG Research Agenda: “Society”, “religion” together with “digitality” – and, in perspective, “environment” – will form the principal foci of the IEG’s research. The connection between these areas is maintained above all by the Europe Forum. Historical research on Europe in its cross-border and global interdependencies thus captures key processes that have had an impact in the past and continue to do so today. With a view to questions of social cohesion, religious plurality, climate change and digital transformation, they bring the insights of rigorous historical scholarship to bear on European options for action and their limits as well as suggesting alternative paths.
The research projects at the IEG jointly illuminate enduring issues from a long-term perspective. They deal with changes, ruptures and continuities and address memory and the use to which pasts are put. They are organised on a European basis, taking into account relationships and taking a comparative view of interactions on a local, regional, national, international and global level. By incorporating digital processes, historical methods are continuously expanded and conceptually developed. Scholars working at the IEG draw on their projects to contribute to the fields of society, religion and digitality. They also participate in the overarching activities and debates in the Europe Forum.Contact PersonJuliane Schwochschwoch@ieg-mainz.deHosting Conditions24/7 access to the building, living within the building, w-lan Infrastructure: Library, press office, research colloquium No cafeteria.
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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
The Herder Institute supports a wide range of scientific activities on the historical and cultural development of East Central Europe through its research, knowledge transfer, documentation and digitalization departments. The focus of interest is on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. An important concern is the joint exploration of the interrelation of this core region with its neighbors (above all Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia) in a comparative pan-European context. For several years now, the Digital Humanities have been a major focus of the institute’s work, both in the area of digital and social infrastructure development as well as in research and career development.
Read MoreThe unique collections consist of a research library on the history and culture of East Central Europe, which now contains more than half a million media units, including a music collection, a samizdat collection and a press collection. Daily and weekly newspapers from East Central Europe have been archived since 1952 and have been evaluated for the period up to 1999 in a systematic collection of more than 5 million clippings. In addition, the Institute also has one of the best image archives with image carriers of all kinds, especially on the art and cultural history of East Central Europe (currently about 700,000 units), a map collection with about 45,000 map sheets, about 1,200 old maps and slightly more than 6,300 aerial photographs from the years between 1942 and 1945. Finally, the document collection focuses on the history of the Baltic
States and continuously collects estates, family archives, individual archival documents as well as photographed archival records (about 1,300 running meters of shelving). The materials held in stock are the starting point for our own research, close cooperation with the two universities in Giessen and Marburg in research and teaching, and close networking with numerous other Leibniz institutions (Leibniz Research Associations).Current project-leading perspectives
Collecting, preserving, indexing and communicating
Visual history and art history
Reflection and design of digital change
Space – City – Environment
Political orders – conflict – security
Contact PersonAntje Coburgerantje.coburger@herder-institut.deHosting ConditionsThere will be an individual office/desk. We have one person for public relation / Transfer We work in our office and part time remote access into the institute is while our opening hours Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 pm, and Friday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. We give access to our library, scientific collections, online resources, and the help of many colleagues in all departments.
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Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt is one of Europe’s leading peace and conflict research institutes, and the largest of its kind in Germany. We analyze the causes and patterns of conflict from the global to the local level, attempts to build and sustain peace,
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and make practical recommendations on peace and conflict-related issues. We combine basic research with knowledge transfer for policy, the media, and society. To achieve this mission and as a member of the Leibniz Association, we are funded by the German federal government, the state of Hesse, and the city of Frankfurt, and also receive third-party funds.PRIF has built up an extensive body of knowledge on key aspects that are critical to the state and future of peace in the world. These topics, which we continuously address, include: arms control and disarmament; international norms, regimes, and organizations; armed conflict and organized violence; military and nonmilitary interventions; peacebuilding and democratization; as well as nonviolent social conflict and societal peace. These topics are investigated in PRIF’s five Research Departments (RD), which are the main research units of the institute. They represent key research fields in peace and conflict studies, dealing with questions of international security (RD I), the role of international institutions (RD II), transnational politics (RD III), peace and conflict at the intrastate level (RD IV), as well as the interaction between political globalization and local lifeworlds (RD V).The Research Departments also host smaller Research Groups. These groups pool the expertise and coordinate research on a specific topic. Currently, Research Groups deal with emerging technologies as well as biological and chemical weapons (RD I), public international law (RD II), terrorism and radicalization (RD III), regime competition (RD IV) and African intervention politics (RD V). In contrast to the RDs, which are the key administrative research units at PRIF, these groups are smaller and more flexible – they can be established, adjusted and dissolved more easily. While embedded in individual RDs, the groups can also include members from other departments. In addition, Research Groups and individual researchers can join forces in what we call cross-cutting research areas, which address ongoing political developments and academic debates, and facilitate collaboration across the Research Departments as well as with our national and international partners.
PRIF emphasizes the dissemination of practically relevant findings to society at large. As part of our knowledge transfer strategy, we provide background information on current events and analysis for ministries, parties, NGOs, and corporations. We conceive knowledge transfer as a dialogical exchange between science and society, which also engages with ideas and inspiration from society and integrates these into scientific work.
Contact PersonStefan Krollkroll@prif.orgHosting ConditionsWe can provide a workplace in a shared office or in the library. PRIF has the largest library for peace and conflict research in Germany. We have a high attendance culture and therefore many opportunities for formal and informal exchange. The offices are open seven days a week. The office building has a canteen.
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Science and Research Centre Koper – A Hub of Mediterranean Wisdom
The Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper) works on an interdisciplinary basis, involving humanities, social and natural sciences, with special emphasis given to the research in the specific environments of the Mediterranean and the upper Adriatic region.
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– basic and applied research, production of professional expertise and counseling, education, organisation of scientific meetings, publishing and editorial activities, librarianship .ZRS Koper is actively integrating in international scientific cooperation and is connecting with many similar organisations worldwide.
Researchers are also actively involved in academic process at all three Slovene public universities, thus ensuring the transfer of research results into the educational sphere.
History of ZRS Koper
The Science and Research Centre of the Republic of Slovenia, Koper (ZRS Koper) was founded on the 1st December 1994 by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia as well as the community of coastal municipalities (as legal successor of all three coastal municipalities: Koper City Municipality, Izola Municipality and Piran Municipality) and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
During the years 2003 to 2015 ZRS Koper acted as a member of the University of Primorska and was it’s main research hub. Nine ZRS Koper institutes carried out an enviable job, many internationally recognized researchers have enabled the transfer of knowledge to dozens of study programs.
Aiming for responsible design of its own future, the ZRS Koper researchers strive for a new form of organization. Following the decision of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, a public research institute, the Science and Research Centre Koper was established on 26 November 2016.Contact PersonAna Šajnana.sajn@zrs-kp.siHosting ConditionsThe science journalist in residence will have access to the data and documents he/she will need for the satisfactory performance of his/her work. Moreover he/she will also be granted an unlimited access to the library and will feel free meeting our researchers while being at the science and research centre during the weekdays. The hosting institution will encourage the journalist to have individual meetings with the researchers of ZRS Koper and meetings with individuals offering professional services. Through various meetings and events the journalist will be enabled to get to know different institutes, that will present their programs and projects they are implementing. In addition, he/she will be invited to all events and other activities organized within ZRS Koper as an institution. He/she will also be able to make guided visit to all our institutes, organizational units, and laboratories. In this way, he will be able to have a precise insight into the work and research content of ZRS Koper. The entire staff will communicate with him in English. The visiting journalist will be assigned his own office, with access to a tea kitchen, where he can have access to cold and hot drinks. ZRS Koper does not have a press office, but effective public relations office. The researchers are working in the office/ hybrid and remote, depending on the type of the work they have currently.
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Institut d’Études Européennes
For 60 years, the Institut d’études européennes of the Université libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB) has been at the forefront of the study of the European institutions and the evolutions of European integration. The interdisciplinary research at the IEE-ULB is based on the contributions of researchers and academics representing 13 disciplinary research centres and units from across 5 Faculties: the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences; the Faculty of Law and Criminology; the Faculty of Arts, Translation, and Communication; the Faculty of Psychology, Education Sciences and Speech Therapy; and Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management.
Read moreAs a scientific platform at the crossroads of several departmental research centres, the IEE conducts, coordinates, promotes, facilitates and publicizes specific interdisciplinary activities on European issues. Overall, understanding the institutions, policies and dynamics of integration associated with the EU requires considering them in the context of globalization. This has seen the IEE’s approach evolve into a so-called concentric one. This concentric research agenda is organized along four transversal research themes grouping researchers from all of the aforementioned disciplines:• Europe as an area of freedom, security and justice – Since the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam, the maintenance and development of an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice has been one of the European Union’s objectives. The IEE-ULB’s first crosscutting area of research is devoted to studying this objective.
• Europe as an area of economic and social regulation – The IEE-ULB’s second area of research addresses European policy-making by dealing with the most important areas in view of an understanding of European integration: economic governance, territories and regional policy, common market and social issues.
• Europe as a community of norms and values – The IEE-ULB’s third crosscutting area of research focusses on cooperation processes, processes of identification and conflict generated by European integration and their role in the legitimization of the EU as a political entity.
• Europe in the world – The IEE-ULB ‘Europe in the World’ crosscutting area of research examines the European Union in terms of global governance; i.e. the interactions between global policy and European policies.
Contact PersonMarta Matrakovamarta.matrakova@ulb.beHosting ConditionsFor a productive and comfortable residency, the journalist will be given his/her own working space , which means he/she will either have a desk or, if if available an individual office. This ensures a private and dedicated space for focused research and writing. The IEE-ULB counts with the support of one communication officer that operates predominantly from our premises, and works remote only one to two days per week. While working remotely, our communication team remains fully accessible and committed to supporting the FRONTIERS fellow(s) throughout his/her residency. Additionally, the journalist can be given a 24/7 access to our premises, enabling him/her to work according to his/her own schedules and preferences. We are also delighted to extend access to our cafeteria and library facilities, providing a comfortable environment for breaks and research. Moreover, the FRONTIERS project fellows will be granted access to our internal online resources if they are relevant for the journalists' residency. The provision of access to unpiblished research materials of the IEE-ULB members will need to be agreed with individual researchers. These provisions are part of our commitment under the framework of the FRONTIERS project to ensure a welcoming, productive, and enriching experience for the journalists in residence.
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WZB Berlin Social Science Center
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center conducts basic research on problems of modern societies in a globalized world. The research is theory-based, problem-oriented, often long-term, and mostly based on international comparisons. Around 200 scientists from various disciplines work together at the WZB, mainly from sociology, political science, economics, and law. Our research areas are dynamics of social inequalities, society, and economic dynamics, international politics and law, dynamics of political systems, migration and diversity, and political economy of development.
Contact PersonClaudia Rothclaudia.roth@wzb.euHosting ConditionsThe WZB provides fellows with an individual desk. All research resources of the institute library can be used freely. Fellows are invited to participate in all research and social activities at the institute.
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MIGLOBA- The network on migration and global mobility of the University of Antwerp
The Herder Institute supports a wide range of scientific activities on the historical and cultural development of East Central Europe through its research, knowledge transfer, documentation and digitalization departments. The focus of interest is on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. An important concern is the joint exploration of the interrelation of this core region with its neighbors (above all Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia) in a comparative pan-European context. For several years now, the Digital Humanities have been a major focus of the institute’s work, both in the area of digital and social infrastructure development as well as in research and career development.
Read MoreThe unique collections consist of a research library on the history and culture of East Central Europe, which now contains more than half a million media units, including a music collection, a samizdat collection and a press collection. Daily and weekly newspapers from East Central Europe have been archived since 1952 and have been evaluated for the period up to 1999 in a systematic collection of more than 5 million clippings. In addition, the Institute also has one of the best image archives with image carriers of all kinds, especially on the art and cultural history of East Central Europe (currently about 700,000 units), a map collection with about 45,000 map sheets, about 1,200 old maps and slightly more than 6,300 aerial photographs from the years between 1942 and 1945. Finally, the document collection focuses on the history of the Baltic
States and continuously collects estates, family archives, individual archival documents as well as photographed archival records (about 1,300 running meters of shelving). The materials held in stock are the starting point for our own research, close cooperation with the two universities in Giessen and Marburg in research and teaching, and close networking with numerous other Leibniz institutions (Leibniz Research Associations).Current project-leading perspectives
Collecting, preserving, indexing and communicating
Visual history and art history
Reflection and design of digital change
Space – City – Environment
Political orders – conflict – security
Contact PersonMilena Bellonisupport@frontiersmedia.euHosting ConditionsThe journalist will be given credentials full-time access to the Department of Sociology and the desk which will be provided. The journalist will also be able to the cafeteria and canteen and other shared areas, most importantly the library. The journalist will have Wi-Fi access and will be able to use the institute’s printers and other resources. The journalist will be embedded in the activities of MIGLOBA and more specifically the activities of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, where Milena Belloni, the main host researcher, is located. He will be welcome to participate in all relevant events open to the staff, including seminars, training and networking activities and to take part in social and cultural events. MIGLOBA comprises about 50 researchers, including postdoctoral researchers, PhD and professors, each pursuing their specific projects in the field of migration and mobility studies. Most researchers will be readily available to meet with the visiting journalist, sharing their perspectives and latest findings on how migration shapes our society and our political discourse.
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Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic
The project AdriArchCult is a part of the ERC funding scheme. It is the first large-scale project examining the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic architectural culture from the comparative perspective focusing on four research domains: territorialisation, religious sphere, peripatetic of knowledge on architecture and architectural practice.
Contact PersonJasenka Gudeljjasenka.gudelj@unive.itHosting ConditionsCa' Foscari University has a Press Office, which has expressed the willingness to support the visiting journalist. As for ERC AdriArchCult project, PI Jasenka Gudelj and her team members are willing to collaborate with the visiting journalist on dissemination and on bettering of project's communication strategies. We will provide the visiting fellow the access to our researchers, enable visits to the research facilities such as archives and libraries and dedicate necessary time to explain the research procedures.
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Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals
The five-year project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) and is headed by Ljiljana Radonić. The ‘universalization of the Holocaust’ has established the Shoah as a historical reference point legitimizing a global moral imperative to respect human rights. Much has been written about the ostensible ‘globalization of memory’, but as yet no genuinely global comparative study systematically confronting this hypothesis with the actual representations of atrocities exists.
GMM examines 50 memorial museums dealing with the WWII period in the US, Israel, Europe, China, and Japan; recent genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Scholars claim that ‘globalized’ memorial museums reflect new moral standards and a new language of commemoration, but what is the price of the attendant decontextualization in the name of moral universals? This first global typology of memorial museums challenges the concept of ‘universal memory’ and the notion that memorial museums constitute a globalized space of communication and negotiation. [The project ends in August 2024, but Ljiljana Radonic will continue working on this topic also after the project runtime.]
Contact PersonLjiljana Radonicljiljana.radonic@oeaw.ac.atHosting ConditionsThe journalist would have an individual desk. The Austrian Academy of Sciences has a press office and a public relations department. On the institute's level, we have one employee responsible for our social media and website. The team is working from the office at least three days a week, up to two days per week from home. 24/7 access to the premises and all resources is given.
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Peace Research Institute Oslo – PRIO
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. Research excellence lies at the heart of the institute’s identity.
PRIO hosts six projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC), awarded with scientific excellence as the sole criterion. It has a higher number of such grants per researcher than any other host institution in Norway. PRIO’s ERC projects examine specific aspects of armed conflict, development, migration, and climate change. All engage with theoretically or methodologically challenging dimensions of time: understanding the past, anticipating the future, or disentangling social transformations.
Read More– ANTICIPATE: Anticipating the impact of armed conflict on human development (ERC Advanced Grant, 2022-2027), led by Håvard HegreThe interdisciplinary team of ANTICIPATE studies how armed conflict impacts various aspects of human development, taking local vulnerabilities into account, and expands the VIEWS early-warning system to also alert to the humanitarian impact of war.
– AWAR: Adapted to War (ERC Starting Grant, 2021-2026), led by Henrikas Bartusevičius
Was war a common feature of life during human evolution? To address this question AWAR draws on multiple disciplines, including anthropology, cognitive science, and psychology, and conducts online psychophysiological experiments in 40 countries.
– FUMI: Future Migration as Present Fact (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2018-2025), led by Jørgen Carling
FUMI addresses the research question How does migration that has not yet taken place shape the lives of individuals and the development of societies? The project is based on multiple forms of data collection among young adults in three West African cities.
– MigrationRhythms: Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia (ERC Starting Grant, 2021-2026), led by Marta Bivand Erdal
What is driving the tremendous middle-class expansion in Asia and how is it related to the unprecedented levels of migration there? To answer this, the project applies rhythmanalysis and uses a mixed-methods research design, including family history interviews and survey data from four Asian cities.
– POLIMPACT: Enabling politically sensitive climate change impact assessments for the 21st century (ERC Advanced Grant, 2022-2027), led by Halvard Buhaug
Scenarios used by the IPCC to assess climate change impacts by design assume that there will be no conflict or instability in the future. POLIMPACT will develop and use new political scenarios and thus foster more realistic risk assessments.
– ViEWS PoC: Violence Early-Warning System (ERC Proof of Concept Grant, 2022-2024), led by Håvard Hegre
This PoC allows the political Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS) research group to explore the societal potential of their work.
Contact PersonAnne Duquenneannduq@prio.orgHosting ConditionsPRIO is located in attractive premises in central Oslo, Europe’s fastest-growing capital city. The scientific journalist will have full access to the premises during working hours, a dedicated individual desk, access to in-house events and will be able to use the library, canteen, weekly physiotherapy exercise and various social events. The institute has an international research staff of approximately 100 persons in full and part-time positions, in addition to administrative and support staff. The institute staff is expected to work from the office every day, unless otherwise specified. The working language at the institute is English. The Communication team, consisting of 8 people, will be available to support the journalist during the residency. The science journalist will be in direct contact with various researchers according to their journalism projects.
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Centre for Science Studies
The Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University is a leading institution dedicated to pioneering research in several key domains of science studies, encompassing philosophy of science, history of science and technology, and science communication. Our comprehensive approach in these areas reflects our commitment to deepening the understanding of science and its societal impacts.
In the realm of philosophy of science, our work is at the forefront of exploring fundamental questions and debates. Our focus includes a critical examination of realism versus anti-realism, delving into how these philosophical standpoints influence our understanding of scientific truth. Additionally, we are investigating the role of theoretical virtues in the process of theory choice, offering insights into how scientific theories are selected and validated. A significant portion of our research is also dedicated to the social epistemology of science, with a particular emphasis on issues related to scientific authorship, collaboration, and the dynamics of scientific publication.
Read MoreOur history of science and technology research delves into the transformative scientific and technological advancements of the 20th century. We are exploring the environmental impacts and implications of these developments, aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of their role in shaping the modern world. Furthermore, our research extends to examining the historical significance of popular science, investigating how it has influenced public perception and engagement with scientific knowledge.In the field of science communication, our research is breaking new ground in several key areas. We are analyzing the evolving landscape of science journalism and the representation of science in the media, addressing how these mediums shape public understanding and discourse. Our research also encompasses the innovative intersections of art and science, examining how these collaborations can enhance public engagement with scientific concepts. A critical aspect of our work in science communication is understanding public trust and mistrust in scientific expertise, a topic that has become increasingly relevant in contemporary society.
Through our rigorous and interdisciplinary research, the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University is not only contributing to academic discourse but also addressing vital questions about the role and perception of science in our world today.
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African Studies Centre Leiden
Research on developments on the African continent (sub-Sahara), with a focus on migration, youth, history, politics, economics, religion, languages, finance & banking, and demography.
Contact PersonMaaike Westram.a.westra@asc.leidenuniv.nlHosting ConditionsShared office space (most staff members work hybrid). Full access to ASCL library. Access on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. (on Friday until 8 p.m.). Access to lectures and other events. Research staff available for interviews.