About us

Queen Mary's Centre is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Copenhagen. We make research-based knowledge accessible and applicable to society's decision-makers and develop new knowledge and insights in direct collaboration with them.

The centre was founded in 2022. In its first years, the centre has developed a number of unique strategies for researcher-practitioner partnerships, which are used by stakeholders and organisations across Denmark.

The centre has become a credible and frequently used source of knowledge on current problem areas about citizens' attitudes and engagement in climate action and sustainable policy, digitalisation as a tool to promote social inclusion, valuing social goods such as art, nature and care, and preventing violence in close relationships.

Our work is both outward facing and inward facing. We host programmes that bring researchers into communication and collaboration with external stakeholders to make research more relevant and directly applicable to pressing societal issues. We also work with university researchers and leadership to facilitate, promote, and evaluate transdisciplinary and socially engaged research.

The centre is overseen by the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Theology and Law at the University of Copenhagen. The deans from those Faculties comprise our steering committee and determine the centre’s strategy alongside the centre director, Simon Kjær Hansen. The centre’s Advisory Committee consists of leaders from a broad range of societal institutions. The Advisory Committee advises the centre’s management on partnership and development opportunities.