Det farlige spørgsmål: Identitetsudfordringer for nye studerende ved en ung professionsuddannelse

This article explores understandings of professional identity among newly started students at the Public Administration Bachelor-education at a Danish University College and analyzes tensions linked to these. Based on data from focus group interviews and ‘study start tests’ the article focuses on perceived advantages and disadvantages of initiating an education with short history, low public visibility, but also great flexibility in relation to potential career paths. Based on Kåre Heggen's theoretical work, the analysis highlights the distinction between an internal and an external view of the education as crucial for understanding the students’ statements. A key observation is that the students generally consider flexibility in relation to future career paths to be a strength, but at the same time miss the external recognition associated with more established professions. The article thereby shows how many new students, on the one hand, request the legitimacy linked to clear professional images, but on the other hand, highlight their appreciation of the flexibility and open-ended nature of this particular education. It thus points to a central, but also difficult, challenge with relevance across a wide range of University College educations: How to balance a strong collective identity with the needs of individualization and flexibility

Institutionalisering af ansvarlig forskningspraksis i professionshøjskole­ sektoren

Over the latest decade ‘research integrity’ has become a major theme on the Danish research policy agenda. However, the national initiatives are broad and abstract and require specific organizational translations. Hence, in this study we ask how the university college sector has responded to the increasing political demands of organizational research integrity policies based on a theoretical framework focusing on organizational translation. The framework highlights that policies seldom are implemented straightforward in classical top down processes, but rather are translated and adjusted selectively to specific organizational contexts in complex and dynamic processes. In an empirical analysis of two selected Danish university colleges we then show that the implementation processes not only have required years of preparation but also have unfolded quite differently across the two organizations. Overall, we find that elements related to explicit requirements and risks of sanctions appear to have been prioritized over more culture-oriented efforts. Based on these findings we discuss challenges and dilemmas in coping with research integrity within the university college sector and round off by highlighting future potentials related to the broader ‘Responsible research and innovation’ agenda

Det farlige spørgsmål: Identitetsudfordringer for nye studerende ved en ung professionsuddannelse

This article explores understandings of professional identity among newly started students at the Public Administration Bachelor-education at a Danish University College and analyzes tensions linked to these. Based on data from focus group interviews and ‘study start tests’ the article focuses on perceived advantages and disadvantages of initiating an education with short history, low public visibility, but also great flexibility in relation to potential career paths. Based on Kåre Heggen's theoretical work, the analysis highlights the distinction between an internal and an external view of the education as crucial for understanding the students’ statements. A key observation is that the students generally consider flexibility in relation to future career paths to be a strength, but at the same time miss the external recognition associated with more established professions. The article thereby shows how many new students, on the one hand, request the legitimacy linked to clear professional images, but on the other hand, highlight their appreciation of the flexibility and open-ended nature of this particular education. It thus points to a central, but also difficult, challenge with relevance across a wide range of University College educations: How to balance a strong collective identity with the needs of individualization and flexibility

Sex differences in the 1-year risk of dying following all-cause and cause-specific hospital admission after age 50 in comparison with a general and non-hospitalised population : a register-based cohort study of the Danish population

Funding: The work was supported by the US National Institute of Health (P01AG031719, R01AG026786, and 2P01AG031719), the VELUX Foundation and the Max Planck Society within the framework of the project “On the edge of societies: New vulnerable populations, emerging challenges for social policies and future demands for social innovation. The experience of the Baltic Sea States (2016-2021)”.Objectives  We examine the mortality of men and women within the first year after all-cause and cause-specific hospital admission to investigate whether the sex differences in mortality after hospitalisation are higher than in the corresponding general and non-hospitalised population. Design  This is a population-based, longitudinal study with nationwide coverage. The study population was identified by linking the National Patient Register with the Central Population Register using a 5% random sample of the Danish population. Setting  The population born between 1898 and 1961, who was alive and residing in Denmark after 1977, was followed up between 1977 and 2011 with respect to hospital admissions and mortality while aged 50–79. Primary outcome measures  The absolute sex differences in the 1-year risk of dying after all-cause and cause-specific hospital admission. The hospitalised population sex differentials were then compared with the sex differences in a general and a non-hospitalised population, randomly matched by age, sex and hospitalisation status. Results  The risk of dying was consistently higher for hospitalised men and women. At all ages, the absolute sex differences in mortality were largest in the hospitalised population, were smaller in the general population and were smallest in the non-hospitalised population. This pattern was consistent across all-cause admissions, and with respect to admissions for neoplasms, circulatory diseases and respiratory diseases. For all-cause hospital admissions, absolute sex differences in the 1-year risk of dying resulted in 43.8 excess male deaths per 1,000 individuals within the age range 50–79, while the levels were lower in the general and the non-hospitalised population, at levels of 13.5 and 6.6, respectively. Conclusions  This study indicates a larger male disadvantage in mortality following hospitalisation, pointing towards an association between the health status of a population and the magnitude of the female advantage in mortality.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Mortality is Written on the Face

Abstract Background: It is unknown whether facial or surrounding (eg, hair and clothing) cues have the strongest influence on the perceived age of subjects in photographic images, and which drives links between perceived age and survival. Methods: In 2001, 187 Danish twin pairs (n = 374) aged 70+ years were photographed generating passport-type images. The faces of the twins in these images were swapped creating two new images per twin pair (748 images in total). Ten nurses rated the perceived age of the twin from the original and swapped facial images. The survival of the twins was determined through to the end of 2013. Results: Changing the face or its surrounding significantly changed the perceived age of the images, with only a marginal difference between their effect sizes (difference of 0.5 years, 95% confidence interval CI −0.1 to 1.1). Perceived age, adjusting for chronological age, and sex, was a predictor of survival up to 7 years (hazard ratio 1.17, 95% CI 1.10-1.25) and also 7-12 years (hazard ratio 1.06, 95% CI 1.00-1.12) after the photographs were taken. Where the older looking twin died first they had a significantly older looking face (1.4 years older, 95% CI 0.3-2.6) but not surrounding (0.3 years older, 95% CI −0.8 to 1.4) compared to where the older looking twin died second. Conclusions: Facial visual cues but not hair or clothing cues drive the link between perceived age and survival

A regionally coherent ecological fingerprint of climate change, evidenced from natural history collections

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