News
2016.11.02 | People
New professor at NCRR
Thomas Munk Laursen has been awarded a professorship at the National Centre for Register-based Research (NCRR). Here, he is examining why people with severe mental disorders have such a high excess mortality.
2016.10.31 | Awards
Business Administration Student of the Year 2016
Tor Toftgaard Madsen has received the title as Business Administration Student of the Year 2016.
2016.10.25 | People
2 x Frederik win award for best Barchelor’s project in economics
Frederik Bjørn Christensen and Frederik Læssøe Nielsen have won the award for best Bachelor’s project in economics presented by the Danish central bank, Danmarks Nationalbank. They receive the DKK 10,000 award for the project ”The role of the public sector in intergenerational welfare contracts”.
2016.10.25 | Events
Large sequences of numbers map out how humans have affected the climate change
Econometric models can help us understand the correlation between climate change and human activity. For that reason, number crunchers from all over the world are meeting up for a conference on climate econometrics in Aarhus on 27 and 28 October.
2016.10.11 | Research news
Parents’ participation crucial for children’s reading skills
Large gains in learning can be made by involving the parents in their children’s reading. This is the conclusion of the research project READ, which has been conducted in collaboration between Aarhus BSS, the city of Aarhus and VIA University College.
2016.09.30 | Alumni
Economics and management graduate of the year
Heidi Christina Thysen has just been named economics and management graduate of the year by a committee in the Oecon Association. Heidi received the award in recognition of her great and unselfish contribution to various student associations, which has benefitted all Master’s degree students in Sociology and in Economics and Management at Aarhus…
2016.09.30 | Aarhus BSS
Does the mother know her child the best?
New research from TrygFonden's Centre for Child Research shows that mental problems affect the mother’s judgement and that dad is just as good as mum at evaluating the child’s scholastic and social skills. This is important to consider in parental rights cases, claim the researchers behind the study.
2016.06.29 | Students
Students win case competition and DKK 10,000
A group of economics and political science students have just won a case competition arranged in collaboration with the Department for Children and Young People in Aarhus Municipality.
2016.06.23 | People
AUFF starting grant to Paolo Santucci de Magistris
Paolo Santucci de Magistris has received an AUFF starting grant of DKK 1,530,000 to establish a research group in the field of Financial Modeling under Non-Gaussian Distributions. The grant will be used to employ a post doc researcher for three years (2016-2019) on the international job market.
2016.06.22 | People
6.7 million for Vejlin and Andersen
Rune Vejlin and Torben M. Andersen receive grants from the Danish Council for Independent Research. The amounts granted are DKK 5,265,999 for Vejlin and DKK 1,450,417 for Andersen.