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Research grants

Project title: EU COST Action CA22121: Rising nationalisms, shifting geopolitics and the future of European higher education and research openness (OPEN)

Project period: 30.10.2023 – 29.10.2027

Grant: EU COST Action

Amount: 725.000 EURO

Funded by: EU COST Association

PI/Chair: Katja Brøgger


Project title: Governing educational pasts, presents, and futures with data

Project period: 01.01.2022 – 30.06.2024

Grant: NOS-HS Exploratory workshop

Amount: circa 43.000 euro

Funded by: The joint committee for Nordic research councils in the humanities and social sciences (NOS-HS)

PI: Miriam Madsen


Project title: Asserting the Nation: Comparative studies on the rise of neo-nationalism in higher education. The case of continental Europe

Project period: 1.7.2021 - June 2025

Grant: Sapere Aude

Amount: 6.175.495 kr.

Funded by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PI: Katja Brøgger


Project title: Asserting the Nation: Comparative studies on the rise of neo-nationalism in higher education. The case of United Kingdom and Brexit

Project period: 1.7.2021 – June 2025

Grant: Inge Lehmann

Amount: 4.317.578 kr.

Funded by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PI: Katja Brøgger


Project title: Research for impact – Integrating research and societal impact in the humanities PhD

Project period: 1.1.2021 - 31.12.2024

Grant: Sapere Aude

Amount: 6.182.411 kr.

Funded by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PI: Søren S.E. Bengtsen


Project title: Diversity Work as Mood Work

Project period: 2.2.2020 – 31.1.2023

Grant: Forskningsprojekt 1, tematisk forskning

Amount: 2.800.000 kr.

Funded by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PI: Dorthe Staunæs


Project title: : Kvindernes universitet.  Århus universitet 1928 - 2015

Project period: 1.11.20 – 31.10.2022

Grant: NOVA

Amount: 1.500.000 kr.

Funded by: Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond (AUFF)

PI: Ning de Coninck-Smith


Project title: The performative effects of budgets in higher education: A cultural-studies account of how ideas and designs of education are built into budgetary numbers

Project period: 01.01.2021-31.12.2022

Grant: International postdoc

Amount: 1.305.000 kr.

Funded by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PI: Miriam Madsen


Project titleAffective investments in diversity work in STEM at Danish universities 

Project period: 01.02.2021-23.12.2023

Grant: NOVA

Amount: 2.413.000 kr. 

Funded by: Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) 

PI: Dorthe Staunæs


Project title: The Temporality of Innovation

Project period: 01.01.2019-31.12.2021

Grant: Velux Coregroup

Funded by: The Velux Foundation

PI, subproject 3: Mie Plotnikof (collaboration with PI Tor Hernes, IOA, CBS)


Project title: Gendered formations of educational interests and aspirations in primary and secondary schooling 

Projekt period: 01.01.2019-31.12.2021 (extended until 2022 due to the Corona pandemic)

Grant: Tematiske forskningsmidler

Funded by: Independent Research Fund Denmark

PI, subproject 3: Mie Plotnikof (collaboration with PI, Justine Pors, MPP, CBS)