DDCxTrygFonden fellowship cohort 2025
We are very excited to announce our 2025 DDCxTrygFonden fellowship cohort! The fellowship program is funded by TrygFonden and will generate will generate new insights into how digital technologies affect democratic institutions and processes, and how citizens, businesses, and decision-makers can best navigate in the digital world.
The program offers great flexibility: some fellows will begin at the end of 2024, while others will join in early or mid-2025. The newly appointed fellows come from various fields, including journalism, communication, computer science, and media studies. They will be affiliated with the Digital Democracy Centre for periods ranging from three months to one year, where they will work on projects and issues related to the Digital Democracy Centre’s research interests.
For this second round of our fellowship program, we have a diverse cohort of nine fellows with journalistic and academic backgrounds:
- Anders Høeg Nissen with the project ‘Take the Power Back – rethinking and redistributing AI to facilitate democratic debate’ and Lene Heiselberg as his mentor.
- Esben Seerup with the project ‘Digital democracy for real: How “The Five” - five different, public, collaborative, digital and constructive methods - pave new ways of covering politics for both media, politicians and the people’ and Claes de Vreese as his mentor.
- Fabian Prochazka with the project ‘Public opinion (mis)perceptions of journalists – the impact of online feedback’ and David Hopmann as his mentor.
- Guna Spurava with the project ‘Citizens' Freedom to Choose, and Algorithmic Content Recommendation in a Digitalised Society’ and Arjen van Dalen as her mentor.
- Heidi Røsok-Dahl with the project ‘Engaging the Next Generation: A Comparative Study of Constructive Journalism in Norway and Denmark’ and Morten Skovsgaard as her mentor.
- Lasse Hørbye Nielsen with the project ‘How strong media leadership can revitalize journalism as a vocation in the digital age’ and Peter Bro as his mentor.
- Luc Edixhoven with the project ’Causality analysis for X-IDF’ and Fabrizio Montesi as his mentor.
- Niels Mede with the project ‘Online harassment of scientists: Investigating bystander perceptions and developing evidence-informed countermeasures through experimental research and co-creation’ and Lena Frischlich as his mentor.
- Sarah G. Gotfredsen with the project ‘Power in Numbers? Community Notes’ Efficiency During the 2024 U.S. Election’ and Pantelis Analytis as her mentor.
Through the fellowship programme, the nine fellows will have the opportunity to create new knowledge and develop new networks and collaborations with the Digital Democracy Centre, as well as create tangible results, such as contributions to public debate, seminars or workshops. We look forward to following the fellows' projects and collaborating with them on some of today’s big issues!