The doctoral programme of Politics and Society is an interdisciplinary training programme for PhD students who undertake research relating to society, state and globalisation in a contemporary or historical perspective. Using a variety of analytical approaches and theories from the social sciences and the humanities, the PhD students’ research focuses on cultural, political and socio-economic developments at the local, national, transnational and global level; research themes include changes in economic, political, social and administrative systems, international affairs as well as state-market-civil society relations, gender, identities, mobility and displacement.

News
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11.10.2022
Ny ph.d.-stipendiat: Camilla Bøgeskov
Pr. 1. oktober 2022 startede Camilla Bøgeskov som ph.d.-stipendiat ved forskningsgruppen Historie.
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29.09.2022
Ph.d.-forsvar: Forestillinger om succes og perfektion presser unge fra gode kår
Søren Christian Krogh har undersøgt, hvordan præstationskultur, køn og sociale medier påvirker danske udskolingselevers hverdag og trivsel.
Events
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09.10.2023 at 13.00 PM - 16.00 PM
PhD defence by William Claes Oscar E. Sjöstedt
William Claes Oscar E. Sjöstedt will defend his PhD thesis ”SHOULD DEMOCRACY BECOME INTERGENERATIONAL? On the inclusion of Youth and Future Generations in the Anthropocene”
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11.10.2023 at 13.00 PM - 16.00 PM
Invitation to PhD course: Sociology of Emotions (Session 2)
The aim of the course it to familiarize students with classical and contemporary perspectives in the sociology of emotions, to enable students to critically discuss theoretical assumptions, methodological approaches, and empirical results within the sociology of emotions and to construct a theoretical framework and methodological approach to a specific research problem in the student’s own ongoing or planned project.
Head of Programme Karen Nielsen Breidahl
Email: knb@dps.aau.dk
Programme secretary Marianne Høgsbro
Email: hoegsbro@id.aau.dk
Phone.: +45 9940 8192 • Email: inst.dps@dps.aau.dk
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