Research groups at Culture and Global Studies

ACEuS interdisciplinarily researches the actors, organisation, functioning and institutions of the European Union, and its global role. It serves to discuss Denmark’s EU role; engage in international partnerships; secure external funding;  and enrich European Union teaching at CGS.

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The C&C research group conducts research in consumer culture and the consumer society focusing on different aspects of consumption in everyday life as well as in situations of extraordinary consumption (special occasions and holidays). The research group seeks to link their study of individual consumption to overall social, cultural and political changes and to view consumers as actors in global/local markets. 

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The Centre for Discourse in Transition supports research that investigates different perspectives on discourse in our contemporary, turbulent world. 

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The CEPS research group focuses on cultural encounters in human societies of the past, ranging from crusades, mission and papal communication in the Middle Ages to early modern colonization and maritime expansion. Environmental changes in a multi-centennial perspective are also studied.

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The Centre for Research in Contemporary Poetry (CERCOP) consists of ten tenured poetry researchers and a number of associated researchers from universities worldwide. CERCOP organizes conferences, seminars, and lectures, and produces articles, anthologies, monographs, and teaching and press materials.

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The CHI research group studies a wide range of topics from the late 19th Century until today. CHI has defined three focus areas: Welfare state and modernization; International organizations, transnational movements, and civic diplomacy; and Environment, energy and sustainability. 

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The Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Living in the Arctic (CIRCLA) is a cross-disciplinary centre with the purpose to communicate, organize and support the development of Arctic research at Aalborg University.
 

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We examine organisations from a societal perspective. Members of the research group contribute to the study and to the development of organisational relations between the private sector, public administration, politics and civil society.

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CoMID (Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity) is located at the Department of Culture and Global Studies. CoMID is an interdisciplinary teaching and research unit that studies the origins, practice and consequences of international migration, broadly conceived, with a focus on processes of inclusion and exclusion.

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The Research Center on Development and International Relations (DIR) is characterized by its interactive combination of the two interdisciplinary fields of development studies and international relations, which engender critical inquiry and holistic understanding of development and transformation.

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EDGE is an interdisciplinary research centre, whose purpose is to offer research based counseling and consultancy for public authorities and to engage in active dialogue and collaboration with external stakeholders and contractors about central societal issues relating to equality, diversity and gender.

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FREIA is a multi-disciplinary research center at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. FREIA’s researchers cover a broad selection of fields ranging across sociology, political science, statistics, anthropology, philosophy, history and European, international and post-colonial studies.

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The Global Refugee Studies (GRS) research group focuses on forced displacement of people, i.e. both those who are refugees in the legal sense and other groups of “people in flight” from their homes: Those who have not crossed any borders (internally displaced persons), those who flee (within or across borders) from general violence rather than personal persecution, and those fleeing natural disasters. It is a multi-disciplinary group, bringing together political scientists, anthropologists, legal experts and others. 

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Interdisciplinary Media Studies focuses on the role of media as culture-producing and -affirming elements in a globalized, mediatized society. Predominantly interested in film and tv, the group is also interested in digital media and the interaction of texts across platforms. The dialectical relationship between media and cultural history is essential for the research group’s activities.

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The research group Language and Linguistics provides a setting for language research in the Department of Culture and Global Studies and comprises linguistic basic R&D and applied language research in foreign languages and in Danish.

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The Popular is an Anglophone research group devoted to the analysis of popular culture and other manifestations of the popular in the literatures, media and cultures of the English-speaking world. We focus in particular on transnational, transmedial and transgeneric manifestations of the popular, and take our point of departure in a triangulation of texts within the overlapping fields of popular, mass and folk culture.See more

The research group Procom (Communication and Culture in Professional Contexts) focuses on research in professional communication within and across languages and cultures. This entails a focus on how professional communication and language for specific purposes (LSP) are practised in organisational contexts.

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Destination dynamics is the central theme for TRU. We investigate the interaction between supply and demand in tourist destinations, situated in their cultural, socio-economic, historical, and, not least, international context.

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