Research Projects and Centers

The Department of Anthropology houses one of Europe's largest research environments for ethnography and social anthropology. We find great successes in collaborations and external funding through conducting research that is innovative and engaged in society in both local and global terms. Read more about our current projects and research centers here:

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The Interacting Minds Centre (IMC)

IMC provides a transdisciplinary platform to study human interaction. It involves researchers from anthropology and other disciplines within the humanities, social sciences, cognitive sciences, biology and clinical research.

Research project

Security of Migrants in Agriculture

The purpose of the project is to create new knowledge about safety practices and risk management in Danish agriculture across national and international employees, managers and external actors in Danish agriculture

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Musikalske Besøgsvenner

That are the connections between live music and well-being? The collaborative research project Musical Visiting Friends brings together vulnerable youths and elders, artists, researchers, music industry actors and NGOs to explore access to health and culture.

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Settler Colonial Beasts

This research project (2023-2026) study the history and present roles of feral animals in forming frontiers.

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Aarcon

Aarhus Centre for Conflict Management (Aarcon) is an interdisciplinary centre that is intended to promote collaboration, knowledge exchange, and mutual learning among researchers, students, and practitioners working with conflict in the broadest sense of that word.

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BLUE: Multispecies Ethnographies of Oceans in Crisis

BLUE combines a "blue humanities" approach with natural science methods to retool the empirical, multispecies study of four key anthropogenic-ecological crises of oceans: invasive species, plastic pollution, ocean warming, and ocean acidification.

Research network

Gender in Transition

The research group “Gender in Transition” brings together scholars working ethnographically in different social and cultural contexts with the aim of rethinking 'gender', 'kinship' and ideas of change. We are placed at the Department of Anthropology.

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AMR@LAB

The project Antimicrobial Resistance and Labour Migration across Healthcare Boundaries in Northern South Asia (AMR@LAB) addresses the increasing global problem of AMR with a particular focus on the vulnerable category of labour migrants working in northern India and southern Nepal.

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Center for Environmental Humanities (CEH)

The Center for Environmental Humanities promotes research on environmental transformation within the diverse field of environmental humanities and fosters new ways of thinking about these transformations.

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GOINGLOBAL

The GOINGLOBAL project (2020) is a collaboration between MANTRA, researchers at Aarhus University and Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality. The project examines challenges in the integration and retention of international workers in the Danish rural districts- and will particularly involve workers from countries in Eastern Europe such as Poland, Romania and Ukraine.

Research project

Hunting Life – explorations of biosociality in Greenland

Hunting has always been the backbone of Inuit existence in Greenland. Moving beyond standard essentializing approaches to hunting, this anthropological project explores hunting through the "biosocial"

Research network

Aarhus University Network for Interdisciplinary Drug Resistance Research (IDRRES)

IDRESS is an interdisciplinary arena for scientific cross-fertilization between microbiology, genetics, infectious diseases, immunology, pharmacology, veterinary science, anthropology, health services research, history and philosophy to understand the complex interactions between microorganism and environment that lead to drug resistance.

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Muskox Pathways: Resources and ecologies in Greenland

The project brings together anthropologists and archaeologists to explore the current, historical, and pre-historic pathways along which the muskoxen migrate, transform, and emerge in constellations with humans where each affect the other in profound ways.

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MIAU: Centre for Migration and Integration Research

MIAU is a research centre that provides a platform and infrastructure for researchers at Faculty of Arts to enhance the dialogue on migration and mobility, across disciplines, departments and research groups.

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The journey to employment

The purpose of the project is to focus on the experiences of female refugees and immigrants with the Danish labour market. There is a focus on which life circumstances and motivational factors have or have had an impact on women’s entry into the labour market.

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Veterans in Archaeology

The research and innovation project Veterans in Archaeology forms the framework for the VETEKTOR Buddy program – a mentoring scheme that introduces veterans with PTSD or other disabilities after deployment to metal detector archaeology.

Research project

ANTHUSIA: Anthropology of Human Security in Africa

ANTHUSIA is a multi-disciplinary research project funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 that aims to foster talent relevant to current challenges and potentials of developing safe societies in Africa.

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Fending the Feral

The project (2021-2024) investigates the radical transformations of the social and natural landscape in the Danish-German borderland, caused by the construction of a wildlife fence in order to prevent the migration of wild boars and the spread of African Swine Fever.

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Humans, Animals and Microbes

The project studies the extent to which we share bacteria when we are in the same social contexts, and to what extent this is also true across species such as humans, dogs and pigs.

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BIOSINQ

BIOSINQ is a forum for people and projects that explore and push the concept of ’the biosocial’ while building on developments in recent decades in the natural and social sciences and the humanities that challenge the borderlines between disciplines.

Research project

Gendered Island Futures

This project examines gendered and gendered perspectives on motherhood and social change in the Faroe Islands. We focus on disability and motherhood, fertility treatment, male perspectives on motherhood and island motherhood as bonds of distance and intimacy.

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IMAGENU - Imagining Gender Futures in Uganda

The project will provide a new perspective on gender and futures by placing marriage in Uganda and its decline at the centre, showing how this most fundamental gender relation implicates the filiation of children, livelihoods, education, health and people’s imaginations, expectations and hopes for the future.

Centre

Mapping art and cultural initiatives at the hospitals in the Central Jutland region

FOCUS - Centre for Food Culture Studies is an international and interdisciplinary research network that has its origins at the Anthropology Department of the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University.

Research project

MIGSOSU: Fra Migrant til SOSU-Aspirant

A research collaboration between anthropologists and software developers is going to contribute to the attraction and retention of migrants in the SOSU profession, because precisely this target group can meet the increasing labour demand, especially in elderly care.

Research project

Reorienting Integration

Forskningsprojektet “Reorienting Integration” undersøger udfordringer og oplevelser forbundet med congolesiske kvoteflygtninge familiers genbosættelse i Danmark.

Research project

Care and help to citizens with drug problems

The project collaboration is an investigation into how the municipality's care workers meet and deal with people who have problems with alcohol and drugs.

Revised 31.10.2024

Marie Louise Tørring