Interdisciplinary projects
The graduate school has the option to enrol PhD students with interdisciplinary PhD projects. For example, if the project relates to specific interdisciplinary research centers or covers a topic that spans two or more of the six academic fields at Aarhus BSS. If the project is interdisciplinary, it must be assessed which of the six PhD programmes it would fit best into, and the application should then be submitted to that programme. If the PhD school determines that it would fit better in another PhD programme, the application will instead be evaluated there.
Research facilities:
PhD students are connected to one of the 6 academic departments at Aarhus BSS. It is important that a PhD project either fits into one of the below existing research environments, or can be based within a department despite the project’s span of several fields.
Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy has an interdisciplinary profile, which combines both various research disciplines in the social sciences and humanities and a wide variety of research methods. The Centre’s research focuses on research policy, innovation policy and university policy, and contributes to both the theoretical and empirical developments within the field. The center is affiliated with the Department of Politcal Science and therefore witht the PhD programme in Political Science.
Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research has an interdisciplinary field of research within drug and alcohol studies, covering anthropology, criminology, economics, media science, psychology, social epidemiology, and sociology. The Centre’s research focuses on treatment, prevention, policy and consumption of both legal and illegal substances. The center is affiliated with the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and therefore witht the PhD programme in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences.
TrygFondens Centre for Child Research is an interdisciplinary research centre that focuses on impact evaluations of social, educational and crime prevention programmes targeting Danish children and youth. The centre uses experimental and quasi-experimental research designs to measure causal effects to determines what works. We also have expert knowledge in analysing program cost effectiveness and cost benefit. The center is affiliated with the Department of Economics and Business Economics and therefore with the PhD programme in Economics and Business Economics.
