Research

Research at TRANSITION explores how societal changes shape human lives across rural and urban contexts. From individual life stories to collective cultural shifts, we highlight the lived experiences of transition as they unfold over time and space.

This page offers an evolving overview of the center’s research, as new projects, people, and partnerships are added continuously.

Research projects

Lead project: Childhomes

At Home Without a Home: Children in Transitional Homes in Denmark, 1885–1920

Postdoc project: Christian Steentofte Andersen

Mobility Tales: Rural-Urban and Urban-Rural Migration in Danish Literature

PhD project: Ida Bzorek

Negotiating Identities, Ideas and Transforming Places: Perceptions and Narratives of Dialect in Rural-Urban Encounters, 1870-1945

Postdoc project: Kristian Aarup

Cultural encounters between the rural and urban at the dawn of the 20th century.

Postdoc project: Lea Allouche

Literary Depictions of Danish Jewish Life across Rural and Urban Settings 1870–1944

PhD project: Lise Bødtker Sunde

Kinship and co-residence: Family and household experiences of rural-urban migrants in Denmark 1870-1945

Phd project: Oscar Dürr Kaaber

How the Land Lies – Rural–Urban Entanglements in Danish Landscape Practices.

Postdoc Project: Raymund Vitorio

Language, Migration, and the Lives of Filipino Au Pairs

Research data 

Sociolinguistic data

Historical data

Fellows

Current fellows

Junior Fellow: Helen R. Durst

Material Culture and Everyday Life in Literature

Senior fellow: Palle Schantz Lauridsen

Suburbia as Cultural Landscape

Student Fellow: Silas Belli

Graffiti as Critical Practice

Student Fellows: Szymon Kopania & Ryan Nguyen Le

Infrastructure as Connection

Past fellows 

Senior Fellow: Ilja Van Damme

The Sensing of Urban Modernity

Junior fellow: Monica Hidalgo

Literature as Emotional Archive

Join TRANSITION as Student Fellows

Call for Student Fellows

The fellowship is open to students whose thesis projects connect with the centre’s research.