The grants are awarded within the framework of the Danish Council for Independent Research’s E2014 and F2015 call, with the aim of providing researchers in Denmark the best possible conditions for producing outstanding research results at a high international level.
Grant letters will be forwarded to the recipients as soon as possible. Rejection letters will include a brief text, explaining the main academic reasons for the project not obtaining a grant.
Please be advised that the Council cannot be held responsible for printing errors and reserves the right to make adjustments. A very limited number of applicants have been admitted to a waiting list and they will be contacted directly.
RESEARCH PROJECT 1
Project Title: Religion, Social Mobility, and Preferences for Redistribution
Grant Recipient: Mads Meier Jæger
Place of Employment: SFI - The Danish National Centre for Social Research
Awarded Amount: DKK 475,502
Project Title: Diversity and Development: Evidence from Immigration Quotas
Grant Recipient: Casper Worm Hansen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,502,967
Project Title: Psychological Foundations of Elite Political Behavior: Personality & Situational Imperatives
Grant Recipient: Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,498,656
Project Title: The impact of antidepressant use on socioeconomic outcomes of treated individuals and their families
Grant Recipient: Mircea Stefan Trandafir
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,435,680
Project Title: Arctic outcasts: social welfare institutionalization, urbanization and homelessness in Nunavut and Greenland
Grant Recipient: Julia Blythe Christensen
Place of Employment: Roskilde University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,216,693
Project Title: A New Inference Method for Nonparametric Econometric Models
Grant Recipient: Shin Kanaya
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,321,872
RESEARCH PROJECT 2
Project Title: Transportation issues related to waste management
Grant Recipient: Sanne Wøhlk
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 4,113,985
Project Title: Identifying the structure of volatility in financial markets using ultra high-frequency data
Grant Recipient: Kim Christensen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 3,622,140
Project Title: Solving and Estimating Dynamic Games with Multiple Equilibria
Grant Recipient: Bertel Schjerning
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,618,637
Project Title: The role of diaspora investors in developing countries: A study of firm internationalization and inter-firm collaborations
Grant Recipient: Larissa Rabbiosi
Place of Employment: Copenhagen Business School
Awarded Amount: DKK 2,269,992
Project Title: Crooked Politics: Vote Markets and Redistribution in New Democracies
Grant Recipient: Mogens Kamp Justesen
Place of Employment: Copenhagen Business School
Awarded Amount: DKK 5,408,575
Project Title: Visitation Rights and Discrimination Against Fathers: Bias or a Myth?
Grant Recipient: Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 5,497,211
Project Title: Getting out of the Technology Transfer Trap: Foreign direct investment and learning among African-owned firms
Grant Recipient: Lindsay Kaye Whitfield
Place of Employment: Roskilde University
Awarded Amount: DKK 5,360,348
Project Title: When, Why and How Do Bureaucrats and Politicians Respond to Reputational Threats? Comparing Central Government Organizations in Denmark and Belgium/Flanders
Grant Recipient: Heidi Salomonsen
Place of Employment: Aalborg University
Awarded Amount: DKK 5,321,236
Project Title: SWAR - Sectarianism in the Wake of the Arab Revolts – beyond primordialist and instrumentalist understandings of Shia/Sunni divisions in a new Middle East
Grant Recipient: Morten Valbjørn
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 3,326,891
Project Title: Understanding the Effects of Democracy - Theory and Laboratory Experiments
Grant Recipient: Thomas Markussen
Place of Employment: University of Copenhagen
Awarded Amount: DKK 1,696,532
Project Title: Investigation of the effects of having a male adult friend for boys' well-being, risk-behavior and school engagement
Grant Recipient: Anna Piil Damm
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 5,000,321
Project Title: Breast cancer treatment and socioeconomic outcomes of treated women and their families
Grant Recipient: Nezahat Meltem Daysal Trandafir
Place of Employment: University of Southern Denmark
Awarded Amount: DKK 4,793,760
RESEARCH STAYS ABROAD
Project Title: Performance Management Systemer i Japan
Grant Recipient: Anders Frederiksen
Place of Employment: Aarhus University
Awarded Amount: DKK 120,960
Project Title: Perspectives on international migration in dialogue with the global South
Grant Recipient: Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Place of Employment: DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies
Awarded Amount: DKK 185,253