New analysis from TrygFonden's Centre for Child Research at Aarhus BSS shows that over the past 31 years, non-Western immigrants and descendants increasingly live side-by-side with the rest of the population. However, residential segregation between the richest and the poorest Danes is increasing today.

New research from Aarhus BSS confirms that people with mental disorders have an increased risk of premature mortality. When compared to the general population, average life expectancy is respectively 10 and 7 years shorter for men and women with mental disorders.

Since 2011, the number of women receiving antidepressants during pregnancy has fallen by 33 per cent. This is shown by a comprehensive register-based study from Aarhus University. Postdoc Julie Werenberg Dreier from the National Centre for Register-based Research is behind the study.

Trine Munk-Olsen from the National Centre for Register-based Research has received a grant of DKK 4,972,337 million from the Lundbeck Foundation. The grant will go towards developing a risk calculator that can predict which new mothers have a particularly high risk of developing postnatal depression, and thus where action must be taken to anticipate the depression.

Children who suffer repeated febrile convulsions have an increased risk of developing epilepsy and psychiatric disorders later in life. This is shown by a comprehensive register-based study conducted by Julie Werenberg Dreyer and colleagues.

Independent Research Fund Denmark presents the award for the original research idea of the year to Per Mouritsen from the Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS. Professor of Economics Julia Nafziger is also part of the research project "Outside Citizenship: The Making and Integration of Denizens".

Academically, primary and secondary school students of low socioeconomic status benefit significantly from national tests. However, schools with the most disadvantaged students are also most likely to opt out of the tests.

In autumn 2014, the first group of students enrolled on the interdisciplinary Bachelor’s degree programme in Public Policy. Stine Toft is the first graduate from the programme and is now working in the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd).