Departments and schools

The Faculty of Social Sciences consists of four departments and schools; these are all leading institutions in Denmark and continuously attract attention in international research environments:

• School of Economics and Management (established in 1936)
• School of Law (established in 1936)
• Department of Political Science (established in 1959) and
• Department of Psychology (established in 1968)

The individual departments and schools have a considerable degree of academic freedom and responsibility as well as financial independence within the frames set up by the dean.

Research centres

At the moment, the following research centres are affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences:

• Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (CRF)
• National Centre for Register-based Research (NCRR)
• Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA)
• Institute of Business and Technology in Herning (AU-IBT) (since 1 August 2006)
• Centre for Learning and Education (CLU)

The School of Economics and Management offer
specialized courses and research training in the
following areas:

• Accounting and management accounting
• Marketing and strategic management
• Organizational theory and service management
• Finance
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Econometrics

The school has approximately 44 faculty members and
28 PhD students. Approximately 1,000 students are
enrolled at the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme
in Economics and Management or in Business
Administration at the school.

The School of Law offer specialized courses and research
training in:

• Law of property
• Family law and law of succession
• Constitutional law
• Administrative law
• International and EU law
• Procedural law
• Criminal law
• Criminology
• Jurisprudence
• Legal history and sociology of law

The school has approximately 44 faculty members and 18
PhD students. Approximately 2,200 students are enrolled
at the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme at the
school.

The School of Law offer specialized courses and research
training in:

• Law of property
• Family law and law of succession
• Constitutional law
• Administrative law
• International and EU law
• Procedural law
• Criminal law
• Criminology
• Jurisprudence
• Legal history and sociology of law
  

The school has approximately 44 faculty members and 18
PhD students. Approximately 2,200 students are enrolled
at the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme at the
school.

The Department of Psychology offer specialized courses and research training in:

• Social and personality psychology
• Psychology of cognition and learning
• Developmental psychology
• Working and organizational psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Pedagogical psychology
  

The department has approximately 32 faculty members and
20 PhD students. Approximately 1,100 students are
enrolled at the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme
at the department or have Psychology as their subsidiary
subject area.

Since 1 August 2006, the Institute of Business and
Technology (AU-IBT) in Herning has been a centre under
the Faculty of Social Sciences.

With innovation as a core competency, the institute offers
specialized training in a number of subjects. The
institute has approximately 110 permanently employed
staff members and approximately 110 temporary lecturers.
More than 1,600 full- and part-time students are enrolled at the institute, which offers specialized training in:

• International business communication
• Business Administration and Economics
• Engineering
• Continuing and further education

The Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research carries out alcohol and drug research, primarily within the areas of human science and the social sciences.

The primary tasks of the centre are:

• Research in alcohol and drugs
• Education of students at the university
• Dissemination of knowledge
• Cooperation with international institutions in the field

The National Centre for Register-based Research carries out research on societal matters and healthcare on the basis ofthe Danish public registers in the following areas:

• Epidemiological studies on schizophrenia, mania, depression and suicide
• Social science research with a focus on labour market economics and public economics
  

Other tasks of the centre are:

• Assistance and advice in connection with register-based projects
• Dissemination of knowledge on register-based research
• Collection and presentation of validation studies and other documentation

The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy
carries out research in research and deals with the role that
research plays in society:.

• Research, research policy and innovation

Including:

• Present and future conditions for research

• Scope, extent and impact of research, e.g. areas into which research efforts are channelled

• Allocation of funding for research and

• The role and application of research in society

Research projects mainly address issues within Political science, Sociology and Economics, e.g. Individuals in Research, Human Resources, Society and Research, Research and Innovation Policy, and Economic and Behavioural Impact.

The Centre for Learning and Education is a
university educational research and development unit.

The primary tasks of the centre are:

• Research in university educational and didactic issues
• Educational courses for lecturers at all career levels
• Research & development efforts and advisory work in cooperation with the departments, schools and research centres at the Faculty of Social Sciences.