FUHU Dissemination Award for seven researchers from ECON

for their collaboration with DR Orientering

04/07/2008

Seven researchers from the Department of Economics headed by Peter Møllgaard will receive the Research Dissemination Award 2008 by FUHU (The Danish Society for the Advancement of Business Education and Research).

Over the years, the team of researchers have been at the forefront of disseminating a large number of economic subjects. In particular, the researchers have been selected for the Dissemination Award because of their significant efforts in 2007 in connection with their collaboration with Denmark’s national broadcasting corporation, DR. For six months, the seven researchers supplied the radio programme, Orientering (Orientation), on DR P1 with 73 articles on economic subjects.

Professor Peter Møllgaard is very pleased with receiving the award and he emphasises that it has been really exciting being involved in the radio programme:

- We have learned a lot about research dissemination that we can take with us and use in other contexts. It is important to disseminate research, and in connection with our collaboration with DR, we have had the opportunity to reach an entirely new target group, he says.

The Biggest Challenge

According to Peter Mølgaard, the initiative has been both educational and challenging.

- It has been a challenge, not least with regard to simplification and which angle to choose. For a researcher, it is really difficult to simplify things, but you have to when you make a journalistic article. Furthermore, researchers are used to expounding on everything, but in a radio show, it is about presenting a good story. You have to have a clear angle, which has perhaps been the biggest challenge, he says.

The team behind

The team of researchers behind the collaboration with DR consists of Professor Peter, Professor Morten Bennedsen, Associate Professor Birthe Larsen, Professor Søren Bo Nielsen, Professor Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, Professor Jan Rose Skaksen, and Professor Anders Sørensen. All the researchers come from the Department of Economics.

The purpose of the FUHU Research Dissemination Award is to ensure a continued strong focus on dissemination and to reward and stimulate CBS researchers to continue the positive dissemination work that characterises CBS.

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