Support for social science and clinical research

Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded funding under the instruments ’International Research Stay’ and ‘Clinician Scientist Positions’. As a result, two social science researchers will undertake research stays abroad, while five clinicians will have the opportunity to conduct research alongside their work at Danish hospitals.

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International Research Stay

Two researchers from Roskilde University and Copenhagen Business School, have received a total of just under DKK 500,000 under the instrument ‘International Research Stay’.

See the grants awarded under ‘International Research Stay’ 2026 here.

Marie Lunau Dejgaard from Roskilde University is going to Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. She will be researching how emotions can be understood as social and historical forces shaping norms, belonging and identities. The project takes as its point of departure the lives of queer women from 1870 onwards, focusing on how historical emotional patterns shape contemporary queer communities.

Raghava Rao Mukkamala from Copenhagen Business School will explore how artificial intelligence can help us imagine and prepare for the future. More specifically, he aims to combine human expertise and generative AI to create and test future scenarios that may be beneficial for public and organisational decision-making. During the project, Raghava Rao Mukkamala will undertake a research stay at Aalto University and Tampere University, which are both in Finland.

The funding is awarded by the research council DFF | Social Sciences, and the objective of the instrument is to promote the internationalisation of social science research and to contribute to concrete new research activities through strengthened international collaboration.

Clinician Scientist Positions 

Five clinicians employed at Danish hospitals will soon be spending part of their working time on research. Their projects include research into improved treatment of fungal lung infections, earlier treatment of liver cirrhosis, and the development of safer prenatal diagnostics.

See the grants awarded under ‘Clinician Scientist Positions’ 2026 here.

Together, the five clinicians have received approximately DKK 8 million. Each will devote up to 50 % of their working time to research, while the remaining time will be spent in their clinical positions.

The funding is awarded under the research council DFF | Medical Sciences.

Please note that grant amounts and the number of grants are subject to change following the upcoming administrative review.

Facts about the calls ‘International Research Stay’ and ‘Clinician Scientist Positions’

Independent Research Fund Denmark received eight applications under ‘International Research Stay’, and approximately DKK 480,000 was awarded to two research projects. The success rate is 25 %, measured by the number of applications.

The fund received  52 applications under ‘Clinician Scientist Positions’. A total of DKK 8.1 million was awarded to five research projects, and the success rate is 10 %, measured by the number of applications.