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Looking for an expert on democracy and political futures?

Researchers in the Political Futures research programme are available for interviews, expert commentary and background information on current political developments and challenges.

The programme brings together researchers from across the humanities with expertise in areas such as democracy, populism, misinformation, political ideas and institutions, disruptive technologies, and the ways political futures are imagined, debated and shaped – both today and in the past.

Find an expert:

Casper Andersen

Professor, Research Programm Director
  • Science and international cooperation
  • The politics of decolonization
  • Technology and visions of the future

Christoffer Leiding Kølvraa

Associate Professor, Research Programme Director
  • Populism and right-wing nationalism as challenges to democracy
  • Neo-fascist anti-democratic visions of the future
  • Fiction and popular culture in relation to visions of the future

  • the relation between democracy and religion; public theology
  • political imagination & visions of living together in the future
  • listening & dialogue, education & orientation; resilience


  • the relation between democracy and religion; public theology
  • political imagination & visions of living together in the future
  • listening & dialogue, education & orientation; resilience


Henrik Reintoft Christensen

Associate Professor, Head of Department




  • Modern and contemporary Islam

  • MENA politics

  • Right-wing nationalism and radical right theory



  • Cryptocurrencies as non-mediated visions of financial futures
  • Socio-economic impacts of non-renewable resource extraction
  • Governance of local economic development



  • Democracy in Asia
  • Democracy among exiles and refugees
  • Religion and democracy