Research projects

  • Research project

    Digital welfare

    The project examines the “digital welfare state” from a citizen and rights-based perspective.
  • Research project

    AUTO-WELF

    The research project investigates the implementation of automated decision making in the welfare sector across eight European countries. Funded by CHANSE.
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    “Don't take it personal” - privacy and information in an algorithmic age

    The research project investigates the role privacy plays in an algorithmic society, including case studies of the Danish school platform AULA, as well as the interrelation between personal information and privacy. Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
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    How do Danes perceive surveillance?

    The project is related to the Danish Value Survey (Værdiundersøgelsen). The project analyses how Danes perceive surveillance based on the survey data.
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    The commercialized public sphere

    The research project explores perceptions, practices and governance mechanisms related to human rights within internet platforms such as Google and Facebook. Funded by the Danish Independent Research Council (Sapere Aude).
  • FRAME: An interdisciplinary and collaborative research project
    Research project

    FRAME: “Fostering Human Rights Among European (External and Internal) Policies”.

    The research project explores the role and contribution of “human rights” in selected EU policies. Funded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)..
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    The role of state actors of the national human rights system

    How do we navigate the complexity and shortfalls of the real-life functioning of human rights state actors? The project offers a conceptual and methodological baseline in order to analyse the mandate, role and effectiveness of human rights state actors as well as their interactions at domestic level and with international and regional human rights mechanisms.
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    Governmental human rights focal points

    A research inquiry.
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    Human rights and the dark side of globalisation

    This research project explores the relationship between transnational law enforcement and international human rights law.
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    National human rights institutions and popular legitimacy: Case studies from three NHRIs

    This research project analyses NHRI consultations with civil society, popular perceptions of their work and internal processes of legitimation.
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    The economy of human rights

    The project investigates the relationship between human rights and economic development.
  • Showing various covers of national human rights action plans from all over the world
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    National human rights action plans: An inventory

    How many states have adopted national human rights action plans? Building on its inventory of all national human rights action plans ever adopted, this research project investigates processes of norm diffusion, methodological evolutions as well as state engagement with national human rights action plans since the 1993 Vienna Declaration introduced the concept.
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    Human rights research methods: Key issues and approaches

    A book project which introduces and critically discusses various approaches to human rights research.
  • Research project

    Efforts against violent extremism and radicalization

    The project looks into the reporting obligation in Danish schools as well as into the local government efforts against extremism.
  • Makola market, Accra in Ghana. Photo: Erin Johnson/Flickr
    Research project

    Realising the SDGs: The role of responsible business

    This research project explores how responsible business initiatives support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries.