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In this issue of the IMT Newsletter, you can read
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- Peter’s Column
- Two major new grants strengthen historical health and register-based research
- Staff Updates
- Brief News
- PhD Defense
- IMT Events
- IMT External Events
- Professional dialogues in the CSS lunch series – submissions for Spring 2026
- News from EAE
- News from RuB
- News from RUC Digital
- IMT publications
- IMT press/media
- About IMT Newsletter
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Dear kollega,
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I hope you all had a good and relaxing Christmas vacation!
As you find your way back to RUC, I hope you find time to enjoy our spectacular campus, which at the time of writing is covered in snow. In December last year, a part of the so-called ‘Pergola’-area was opened for pedestrian traffic, giving us all a chance to have a first look at the fine new and renovated buildings and surroundings. Also, the barricades around building 2 have been removed – and hopefully we will be able to move more freely between IMT-buildings in the coming months.
This January will mark the 10th Anniversary of the Department of People and Technology. IMT opened for business in 2016 after a complex process of organizational reshuffling that transformed 6 departments into 4 departments. IMT comprised faculty and administrative staff from three departments and became the largest and most interdisciplinary department at RUC – and became the home for the HUMTEK bachelor program and FABLAB among other things.
The merger was a complex process that is – in some respects – still ongoing. We have built strong shared institutions within the department, including the IMT PhD-school, new consolidated research groups, a strong and professional administration and shared governance structures. But IMT is still an unfinished project in the sense that we are constantly working on ways to realize our full interdisciplinary potential as the leading department of people and technology. It’s a work in progress. Fortunately.
We will have an informal 10th Anniversary celebration at the IMT staff meeting on January 30th where there will be luxurious cakes and delicious bubbles that will fuel informal discussions about IMT’s next ten years.
Those of you who have attended staff meetings over the last year will be familiar with most of the themes that will be on the agenda in 2026. There is much work ahead of us in relation to research, education, and administrative support. Let us hope that we will make good decisions in all three areas in the coming year. Let us hope for many new and engaged students, many new graduates, new partnerships, new externally funded projects, and new and pathbreaking publications. And let us also hope that the broader socio-political context will be less stressful than that of 2025.
It is often said that ‘Hope is not a strategy’. That may very well be true, but one cannot have a meaningful strategy without hope. And universities and university departments are in the business of hope. Ours is a strategy of hope.
COMMUNICATING IN ENGLISH At the last staff meeting a young faculty member raised the question of language - why, as an increasingly international department, do we still only speak Danish at staff meetings and in other channels of management communication? Considering this, it has been decided that from now on all department-wide communication issued by the department management will be in English.
Best regards
Peter
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Two major new grants strengthen historical health and register-based research
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Two new projects have recently secured substantial funding and will, in the coming years, make significant contributions to the development of digital research infrastructure and historical register-based research in Denmark.
The first project, Paper Trails: The Historical Patient Journal Database (HiJo), has received a grant of DKK 2.5 million from the Carlsberg Foundation under the Digital Research Infrastructure programme. The project is led by Maarten van Wijhe and will be carried out in collaboration with the Danish National Archives and the Copenhagen City Archives during the period from 1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027. The aim of Paper Trails is to establish a digital database of historical patient records from Danish hospitals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The database will open up entirely new research opportunities in the study of medical diagnoses, disease trajectories, disease prevalence, and the interaction between infectious diseases during a period marked by major epidemiological transformations.
The second project, the Historical Population Register (HisPeR), has been designated a new national research infrastructure and is supported by nearly DKK 16 million from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science through the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure. The grant is administered by the Danish National Archives, and the project runs from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2030. HisPeR extends the current Civil Registration System (CPR) backwards in time and brings together information on individuals in Denmark from 1645 up to the establishment of the CPR. Once fully developed, the infrastructure will comprise approximately 100 million individual records and will enable the tracing of life courses and family relationships across up to 15 generations.
The project brings together a broad national partnership consisting of the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Aalborg University, Roskilde University, and the University of Southern Denmark, as well as a number of key cultural and knowledge institutions, including the Royal Danish Library, the National Museum of Denmark, the Copenhagen City Archives, Statistics Denmark, and the Danish Health Data Authority. HisPeR combines historical sources such as parish registers, censuses, and administrative archival records with modern register data and will support research in fields including demography, health, education, migration, and social conditions. Both Lone Simonsen (INM) and Maarten van Wijhe (IMT) participate in the project as partners.
Together, the two grants mark an important step towards improved access to historical data and the creation of new interdisciplinary research opportunities that can shed light on the relationships between health, society, and life courses across centuries.
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Newly hired postdocs as of 01-01-2026:
- Andreas Dyreborg Martin – Section of Sustainability, Cities and Planning
- Juliane Birgitta Busboom – Section of Computing and Digitalization
- Jialiang Li – Section of Computing and Digitalization
New PhD student as of 01-01-2026:
- Cecilie Vitus Brix Nielsen – Section of Psychology and Pedagogy
New hires as of 01-12-2025:
- Sheila Holz – Postdoc, Section of Sustainability, Cities and Planning
- Stinus Seierup – PhD student, Section of Computing and Digitalization
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Please read the newly uploaded documents on the intranet:
- Funktionsbeskrivelse forskningsgrupper og forskningsgruppeleder
(Position Description for Research Groups and Research Group Leaders).
- Retningslinjer for indkøb - Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi
(Guidelines for Purchases – Department of People and Technology)
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On December 18, Gertie Kolding defended her PhD dissertation
entitled: "Når pædagogikken også er et hus. En arkitekturfænomenologisk undersøgelse af atmosfære på to videregående uddannelser"
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| 30 Jan. |
Staff Meeting and New Years Reception
Time: 13-14.30
Place: Auditorium A, Building 03
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| 5 Feb. |
Jubilee Reception for Tine Jensen’s 25 Years in the Civil Service
On December 1, 2025, Tine Jensen marked her 25-year anniversary in the civil service. We would therefore like to invite you to a jubilee reception to celebrate Tine
Please remember to respond via your calendar invitation.
Time: 15-16
Place: The kitchen, 03.1-E73.
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| 27 Feb. |
Staff Meeting
Time: 10.30-13
Place: Auditorium A, Building 03
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| 11 March |
Center for Everyday Life of Families in the Welfare State (CELFS) is celebrating its 1-year anniversary
We would love to see you all there!
The event is hosted in collaboration with the Sapere Aude-project (Re)configuration of Parenthood, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark(DFF). The afternoon begins with a presentation of the project’s key findings and results, followed by research presentations from Associate Professor Stine Thidemann Faber (AAU) and Professor Ellie Lee (University of Kent). These presentations address how parenting in the welfare state emerges as high politics and tied to risk and prevention.
Program for the day:
13:00 - Welcome
13:15-14:00 - "Mandatory Learning Program - An offer you cannot refuse" by professor Pernille Juhl
14:15-15:00 - "Psycho-Emotional Parenting Support and the Delegitimation of Negativity" by Associate Professor Stine Thidemann Faber
15:15-16:00 - "The Rise of Parenting" by Professor Ellie Lee
16:00-16:30 - Questions and discussion
16:30-18:00 - Reception (with sparkling wine and snacks!)
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Conference: A Paradigm Shift in Strategic Urban Governance?
On 5 March 2026, Roskilde University, as a partner in the Centre for Strategic Urban Research, invites researchers and practitioners to a full-day conference. We build bridges between different forms of knowledge and explore how strategic urban governance operates within a complex societal agenda.
Urban governance often grows out of a logic of growth, where competition between cities encourages quick, spectacular solutions. Strategic urban governance goes further: it is about setting direction, building relationships, and creating frameworks that connect political leadership, projects, stakeholders, and teams.
As a participant, you will gain insight into current tensions between political projects and long-term solutions. The conference invites critical debate on a potential paradigm shift away from fast, spectacular solutions toward a more relational and holistic approach to planning.
You can view the full programme and register for the conference on the Danish Town Planning Laboratory’s website (only Danish):
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CESE Conference 2026 - Early bird until april 1, 2026 - venue at RUC
Worlds of learning: comparative perspectives on the future(s) of education
The bi-annual conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) will be hosted by members of the Research Group Learning, Education and Pedagogy (LEAP) at RUC between June 29 – July 2, 2026
The Conference theme is: ‘Worlds of learning: comparative perspectives on the future(s) of education’. Submissions for individual papers and panels welcome. Further details from Stephen Carney: carney@ruc.dk
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Professional dialogues in the CSS lunch series – submissions for Spring 2026
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The Centre for Social Sustainability (CSS) holds recurring professional exchanges over Wednesday lunch, with a broad professional focus on social sustainability: working life, organization, leadership, nature/culture, care (and care ethics), responsibility, social cohesion, lack thereof, circular economy, ecosystems, inequality, North/South, well-being, solidarity, alternative economies, etc.
The so-called “CSS lunch series”.
It is a thoroughly professionally and collegially inspiring uplift. It is a forum that is open to all VIPs who wish to contribute to and share unfinished professional topics they themselves are working on. I am therefore reaching out to you who are interested in the informal, constructive professional conversation that does not take the form of a lecture.
We share unfinished research/problem fields/analyses/writing ideas and dilemmas.
If this sounds like something for you, please feel free to get back to me today (just to me, to avoid email spam).
Title
You are welcome to write your title and what you would like to engage in professional dialogue about in English, so that our international colleagues can participate. However, this is not a requirement.
4–5 lines:
About what your unfinished idea or dilemma concerns (preferably in English, but not a requirement).
Date:
Which Wednesday from 12–1 pm suits you. (Some dates ARE already booked, so please feel free to indicate a 1st and 2nd priority.)
The programme for the professional lunch dialogues under the auspices of CSS in F26 is gradually taking shape.
Among other things, we will be hosting professional dialogues on relational and feminist ethics and theory in various domains – organization and leadership in local communities, in the care sector, in relation to nature relations and commons, circular economy, and the organization of working life on platforms within planetary boundaries.
There are dates “up for grabs”, so if you would like to take part, this is still possible on one of the available dates below:
11.02.26 (week 7 – winter holiday for some – note that people from Roskilde have theirs in week 8)
25.02.26 Susanne Ekman
11.03.26 Agnete Melgaard
18.03.26 Kristina Grünenberg
25.03.25 Anette Stenslund
27.03–06.04.26 Easter holiday
15.04.26 Tatiana Fogelman
05.04.26
13.05.26
20.05.26 Niklas Chimirri
27.05.26 Hjalte Betak
03.06.26
Both to those of you who have already expressed interest, and to curious newcomers… Please let me know this week, so that we can share the programme with everyone. It is a great forum for gaining new, insightful perspectives on work that is currently in progress.
The principles of the CSS lunch series are:
Reflexivity – To increase dialogue the presentation is maximum 20min about a challenge you experience in your current work on/with social sustainability. You are invited to share your concerns and doubts, and we welcome your open-ended reflections that can be shared and discussed with the participants for the remaining time.
Reciprocity - To increase the atmosphere of mutual exchange and dynamic dialogue - if you are attending one CSS lunch, we hope you to also present your work and matters of concern at some point in the same semester.
Inclusion - We welcome presentations from all colleagues - new or experienced, and all disciplines are welcome. Whether your work is on/with social sustainability is for you to judge.
The CSS lunch goals are:
Atmosphere of reciprocal exchange: Nurture and support an atmosphere of academic curiosity and reciprocal reflection around a shared topic, namely social sustainability
Network: Strengthen the network of scholars at Roskilde University that work with social sustainability
I look forward to hearing from you!
Katia Dupret
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Acedemic development for VIP spring 2026 by EAE
Unit for Academic Development/Enheden for Akademisk Efteruddannelse, EAE offers academic development for VIP.
We offer both planned activities and consultations and activities on request, planned in cooperation with individual VIP or groups. So do not hesitate to contact us with your questions, thoughts, and ideas. Write us an email, book a meeting, or drop by us in 03.1 -W (just below the rectorate).
We look forward to continued cooperation with you
EAE
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The Royal Danish Library is changing supplier for Journal Finder
Journal Finder is a platform that communicates national license agreements for Open Access publishing to researchers.
The Royal Danish Library has decided to change the supplier of Journal Finder, and the solution has therefore been put out to tender. The contract has been awarded to the Swedish company SciFree, which already delivers solutions to several international licensing consortia.
The Royal Library’s new Journal Finder will be launched on the 1st of January 2026, and the current solution will be shut down at the same time.
The new Journal Finder has a different system architecture than the previous solution, resulting in a more stable and reliable platform with faster response times when searching for journals included in the national license agreements for Open Access publishing.
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As a user, you will experience a different search interface, but fundamentally the system works as before: you select your institution and then search by ISSN or journal title. If an agreement exists, this will be shown in the search results. It will also be possible to perform free-text searches and search by subject terms.
It is expected that the system will be continuously adjusted at the beginning of the new year based on user feedback.
If you have any questions or suggestions for changes to Journal Finder, you are very welcome to write to journalfinder@kb.dk |
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Your email and calendar are being moved to a more secure platform
Why this change?
RUC Digital is modernising the university’s email and calendar system. Microsoft is phasing out the current solution, and we are therefore moving the email service to a more secure and up-to-date cloud-based platform. The migration will take place seamlessly, and you will not experience any downtime.
What are the benefits?
- Better protection of the university’s sensitive data.
- Faster response if you lose one of your devices.
- The same features and level of service as today – with higher security.
- Better integration with Teams.
- Alignment with practices used at other Danish universities.
What will happen now?
- All employees and students will be migrated during the first quarter of 2026.
- You will receive a personal information email with the time window for the migration of your mailbox.
- After the migration, you will need 1–2 minutes to reactivate your email in Outlook – instructions will be included in the information email.
What does this mean to you?
- You can continue to use Outlook (app and web) for email and calendar on all your devices.
- Your calendar can now also be used directly in Teams.
- For security reasons, your RUC email and calendar cannot be integrated with private email accounts.
- If you lose one of your devices, RUC Digital will be able to protect your data by remotely removing email and calendar.
- RUC will be better able to comply with applicable legal requirements (e.g. GDPR).
- The IT Service Desk provides support for Outlook email and calendar, but not for other email and calendar apps.
Questions?
- If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to servicedesk@ruc.dk, and we will respond as quickly as possible.
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Covers the period from December 9, 2025 to January 15, 2026
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Journal Article and Review - Peer-reviewed
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Haug KB, Haug A, Hansen JU. Algorithmic profiling of the unemployed: A case study and a framework for understanding legitimization processes. Government Information Quarterly. 2026 Mar;43(1):102103. doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2025.102103
Frandsen AL, Rytter MJH, Haslund-Thomsen H, Broberg L, Schiøtz M, Beck M. Timing Routines With Patience: A Focused Ethnography on Newborn Breastfeeding in Hospitals. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2026 Mar;22(1):e70149. doi: 10.1111/mcn.70149
Vahedi M, Christiansen H. SPLindex: A spatial polygon learned index (extended version). Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 2026;Early view. Epub 2025 Dec 27. doi: 10.1007/s10844-025-01012-9
Hansen AD, Brodersen JB, Jønsson ABR. Danish GP trainees' experiences of navigating patient expectations for non-indicated procedures or tests: a qualitative interview study. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. 2026 Dec 17;44(1):1-12. doi: 10.1080/02813432.2025.2597784
Mardahl-Hansen T, Højholt C, Røn Larsen M. Du skulle have været her i går. Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift. 2025 Dec;2025(4).
Kristinsdottir SG, Hrafnsdottir S, Hulgard L. User-Led Social Innovation – Emerging Ecosystems and Policy Frameworks. Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration. 2025 Dec 16;21(2). doi: 10.13177/irpa.a.2025.21.2.8
Jensen PS, Kallemose T, Kirketerp-Møller K, Juul-Larsen HG. Identifying long-term healthcare and sociodemographic risk factors for lower extremity amputation: a 10-year national registry-based case–control study in Denmark. BMJ Open. 2025 Dec;15(12):e112203. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112203
Kuhlmann L, Juul T, Emmertsen KJ, Christensen P, Frederiksen NA, Krogsgaard M et al. Long-term pain impact after rectal cancer surgery: Trajectories and predictors of patient request for contact from a cohort study. Colorectal Disease. 2025 Dec;27(12):e70342. doi: 10.1111/codi.70342
Leinum LR, Krogsgaard M, Nordh S, Forberg JL, Baandrup AO, Azawi N. Understanding Nursing Staff Perspectives on Fluid Balance Charting: A Nordic Focus Group Study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 2025 Dec;39(4):e70163. doi: 10.1111/scs.70163
Hartmann JS, Missel M, Martinsen B. Being Present in an Impersonal Environment: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of OR Nurses in Patient Encounters. AORN Journal. 2025 Dec;122(6):393-405. doi: 10.1002/aorn.14440
Pedersen P, Berntsen LS, Bräuner AB, Christensen P, Emmertsen KJ, Frederiksen NA et al. Navigating work life after colorectal cancer: insights into work ability and functioning - a Danish follow-up study. Acta Oncologica. 2025 Nov 30;64:1611-1620. doi: 10.2340/1651-226X.2025.44626
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Book Chapter - Peer-reviewed
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Krøjer J. Caring for gender equality? Ethics and gender equality notions in Danish early childhood education and care . In Ribers B, Warring N, editors, Professional Ethics in Welfare Work and Education: Nordic Perspectives. London: Routledge. 2026. p. 161-173 doi: 10.4324/9781003429692-13
Warring N, Ribers B. Postscript: Professional Ethics in Welfare Work–Current Perspectives and Prospective Visions for Education and Practice. In Ribers B, Warring N, editors, Professional Ethics in Welfare Work and Education: Nordic Perspectives. Routledge. 2026. p. 275-278. (Routledge Research in Education). doi: 10.4324/9781003429692-22
Rosendahl M, Kirkeby MH. Static Analysis for Hardware Design. In Languages, Compilers, Analysis - From Beautiful Theory to Useful Practice: Essays Dedicated to Alan Mycroft on the Occasion of His Retirement. Springer. 2026. p. 151-169. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15500). doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-08187-2_8
Schrøder K, Thualagant N. Introduction: Childbirth in Dispute: An Introduction to the Contested Space. In Thualagant N, Schrøder K, editors, The Battle over Birth: Unpacking the Contested Space of Childbirth. Routledge. 2025 doi: 10.4324/9781003507680-1
Kjær P. The ‘we’ of the department: conjuring up team spirits. In Lindgreen A, Irwin A, Poulfelt F, editors, How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully. 2 ed. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2025. p. 166-174 doi: 10.4337/9781035333387.00023
Jønsson ABR. Aiming for Zero Harm: Cultural Drivers of Overdiagnosis in Medicalized Birthing. In Thualagant N, Schrøder K, editors, The Battle over Birth: Unpacking the Contested Space of Childbirth. Routledge. 2025. p. 134-147 doi: 10.4324/9781003507680-10
Davidson L, Jørgensen K. Reconsidering “Recovery”: A Paradigm Shift in Mental Healthcare and Society. In Jørgensen K, editor, The Path to Mental Health Recovery: A Comprehensive Approach for Understanding and Transformation. Routledge. 2025. p. 1-16 doi: 10.4324/9781003489030-1
Jørgensen K. Political Dynamics and User Engagement in Mental Health Practice Toward Recovery. In Jørgensen K, editor, The Path to Mental Health Recovery: A Comprehensive Approach for Understanding and Transformation. Routledge. 2025. p. 17-36 doi: 10.4324/9781003489030-2
Rønne PF, Brødsgaard A. Understanding the Significance of Family and Social Support in the Recovery Journey. In Jørgensen K, editor, The Path to Mental Health Recovery: A Comprehensive Approach for Understanding and Transformation. Routledge. 2025. p. 139-156 doi: 10.4324/9781003489030-9
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Article Proceedings - Peer-reviewed
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Eulenstein ML, Schoormann T. Escape Game Chatbot: Co-designing Educational Games for Sustainability. In Bakkes S, Bellotti F, Dondio P, Ninaus M, Wannick V, Bucchiarone A, editors, Games and Learning Alliance. Cham: Springer. 2026. p. 363-368. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 16307). doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-11043-5_35
Schoormann T, Paeplow J, Möller F. Digital Sustainability Definitions: The Same but Different. In Bui TX, editor, Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-59): January 6-9, 2026. HICSS. 2026. p. 911-920
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Conference Article - Peer-reviewed
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Siampou MD, Li J, Krumm J, Shahabi C, Lu H. Poly2Vec: Polymorphic Fourier-Based Encoding of Geospatial Objects for GeoAI Applications. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 2025;267:55511-55532.
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Contribution to newspaper - comment/debate/feature article
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Bygum Hove M. Modstanden mod pensionsforhøjelsen er så pæn og behersket, at den afslører sig som underkastelse. Dagbladet Information. 2025 May 30.
Bygum Hove M. Hvis vi skal have en kritisk offentlighed, må vi vælge substans over form. Dagbladet Information. 2025 Jun 10.
Bygum Hove M. Det dårligt opdragede barn er nyeste tiltag i Socialdemokratiets moraløkonomi. Dagbladet Information. 2025 Oct 28
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Editor / Photographer
Niels Hilfling Nielsen
Contributions and images
Next issue of the IMT Newsletter
Deadline: February 13, 2026
Next issue: February 27, 2026
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