Sapere Aude grant for MSC researcher

Associate Professor Julie Uldam has received a Sapere Aude grant for the project, ‘Imagining Digital Power and the Power of Digital Imagination in Business and Society Encounters’. The project examines the role of imagination about digital media for dialogue between multinational companies and social movement organisations.

Digital media have been vested with hopes for facilitating dialogue. But dialogue between companies and social movements in digital media remains largely absent. Instead, their relationship is often seen as a struggle between David and Goliath, while

the business models of digital media platforms such as Facebook are increasingly shown to privilege the powerful.

By examining companies’ and social movement organisations’ imaginaries – their assumptions and expectations – about digital media and each other, which may be grounded in fear and mistrust, this project contributes to public knowledge and debate about how we can find avenues beyond mistrust and polarisation and towards collaboration for more sustainable business practices, which are much needed at this time of climate crisis.

The project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Sapere Aude programme which aims ‘at providing excellent younger researchers, i.e. researchers who have carried out top class research in their field, with the opportunity to develop and strengthen their research ideas’. The project is funded with DKK 6 mio. and will include a postdoc and a PhD student. It will run for four years from 2021-2024.

For further information, please contact Julie Uldam, ju.msc@cbs.dk.

MSC researcher becomes a member of the Leadership Council of SDSN Northern Europe

Associate Professor Maria Figueroa, who is a researcher at the CBS Sustainability centre, has been invited to become a member of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Northern Europe.

The Northern Europe SDSN is part of the global UN organisation, Sustainability Development Solutions Network, A Global Initiative for the United Nations, which was established in 2012 to ‘promote practical solutions for sustainable development,  including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.’

The Northern Europe network is one of the  many regional and

national SDSN networks spanning the globe who work to support the implementation of the SDGsthrough interaction with governments, businesses and civil society.

Read more about Maria Figueroa’s appointment to the Northern European SDSN here.

For further information, contact Maria Figueroa, mfi.msc@cbs.dk.

The Department of Management, Society and Communication

The department came into existence on 1 January 2017 as a result of the merger of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and the Department of International Business Communication. Read about MSC's research profile here.

MSC moved into its new premises in Dalgas Have in August 2017. As one of CBS' largest department, it occupies most of the second floor of the building.