Research
School of Business and Social Sciences has a large number of strong research environments which broadly cover the school's academic disciplines.
Research and research-based teaching take place within areas such as law, economics, accountancy, financing, logistics, organisation, marketing, entrepreneurship, innovation, business engineering, management, business communication, business languages and translation, political science, psychology, abuse research and register-based research.
Research is a strategic priority for School of Business and Social Sciences. We have a constant focus on further improving the impact and the quality of the research undertaken at the school and widening the range of areas in which our research can contribute to advancing research frontiers, motivating individual researchers to publish in high-quality outlets. The school has, among others, a very strong labour market research environment at the Department of Economics and Business, where Professor Dale T. Mortensen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010.
Read more about the research at the seven departments
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of Business Communication
- Department of Economics and Business
- Department of Law
- Department of Political Science and Government
- Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences
- AU Herning
Research centres
School of Business and Social Sciences is home to two internationally recognised basic research centres: CON AMORE at the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and CREATES at the Department of Economics and Business, both funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
In addition, the school host several other research centres and groups of researchers working among the international elite.
Read more about the research centres at School of Business and Social Sciences
Research talent development
School of Business and Social Sciences has one graduate school – the Graduate School of Business and Social Sciences – with the vice-dean for research and talent development as head of the graduate school, and with one general set of rules and seven field programmes. The seven field programmes are Business Administration, Business Communication, Economics and Business, Law, Political Science and Government, Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, and Social Science and Business.
