News from Department of People and Technology

tt备用网址 Niels Heine Kristensen from Roskilde University is managing the work of mapping and analysing competences for a sustainable transition in the agriculture and food sector.

Society and the healthcare sector are changing ¨C and the nursing study programme is under pressure. Two researchers from Roskilde University are involved as Rigshospitalet (Denmark¡¯s largest hospital) experiments with how to train future nurses. The expectations for what a newly educated nurse should be capable of are too high, and the traineeship programmes at clinics are under pressure, the researchers point out.

The law stating that young children from socially vulnerable areas must spend at least 25 hours at a nursery per week to learn Danish earlier is based on a limited understanding of how language skills develop, says an expert.

Roskilde University is organising the conference ¡®Transforming for Sustainability¡¯ in collaboration with UN City Copenhagen. The conference will bring together researchers, business people and representatives from public and private organisations who will debate the issues and find solutions to some of the great problems of our time in relation to the UN¡¯s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

September 21 was the day of our annual celebration at Roskilde University. The celebration is a tradition where students and staff members celebrate the university and the values we stand for.

Relatives in hospitals have been an overlooked group in society. In a new PhD thesis, Camilla Bernild focuses on the role of relatives in the healthcare system.

This year's enrolment reflects the fact that Roskilde University has received 6% more 1st priority applications than last year.

Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen has a foot in two very different fields when he conducts research in close collaboration with Danish farmers.

A lot has happened since the first Muslims came to Denmark in the 1960s. The media coverage of the opening of the new mosques in Copenhagen has been intense and predominantly critical.

Light is about much more than being able to see. In Denmark, it is also about relaxing, feeling at home and being part of a community. In other places such as Jordan, light plays a completely different role.