Major Danish-Swedish prize to CBS researcher

Lisbeth Verstraete Hansen has received the award from Einar Hansen's Research Foundation as an acknowledgement of her research on what scientifically substantiates the ”francophone studies”, i.e her work with the French-speaking world as a field of research. In their nomination, the foundation emphasises the researcher's "sense of quality and profound involvement" and singles out the prize winner as an "outstanding example of a researcher, who is not only involved in new basic research and knowledge mapping, but in educational policy too".

Lisbeth Verstraete Hansen has studied at the university of Copenhagen and Université Libre de Bruxelles and has a French DEA degree from Université Lille III in France. She became a PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2002 with the thesis 'Littérature et Engagements en Belgique', which was published in Belgium. Since then, she has been sought after as a specialist and a theorist within the francophone field of research. Lisbeth Verstraete Hansen has received funding from the Carlsberg Foundation, the Tuborg Foundation and recently the Danish Council for Independent Research/Humanities.

The Tuborg Foundation supported important field work on the use of foreign language in companies, based on contact with the Confederation of Danish Industry. Against this background, Lisbeth Verstraete Hansen has built up another field of research; foreign languages in Denmark, their place in the companies, education and their impact on Denmark in an international context. She is also a member of the network ”Ja til sprog (Language, yes please)” ( http://www.jatilsprog.dk/ )

Einar Hansen was a Danish/Swedish patron, who established an empire of foundations after his activities within shipping and publishing. His foundation supports humanist research by means of an annual granting of a prize of DKK 150,000 to a researcher in Copenhagen and a researcher in Lund.