Our Research Environment
We are a small, interdisciplinary research community working closely with practitioners on regional and local development, often with a focus on rural-peripheral areas.
Interdisciplinarity
We are nota university with specialized researchers, but an interdisciplinary researchenvironment.
Ourresearchers have diverse profiles and special research interests and networks,but also share a strong community on local and regional development and havelarge experience with practical working methods.
CRT's four senior researchers cover disciplines such as human geography and tourism, economic geography, innovation studies, sociology of technology, and educational geography.
Research themes
CRT's research focuses on geographical issues and on conditions and opportunities for development in rural peripheral areas. The hallmark of CRT's research is a multi-local and multi-scalar perspective on the developer, that is, the relationships of the air with and interaction with other places, resources and opportunities for your development.
- Business development and innovation in rural-peripheral regions
- Tourism, local development and land use
- Young adults, education and mobility
- Resource based place development
Across these fields, we are working on creating a common knowledge field about green transition from a place perspective, i.e., problems and opportunities that the green transition presents in different types of communities and local contexts.
Methods
At CRT, we work interdisciplinary and with both qualitative and quantitative methods. As far as possible, there are always several researchers attached to our projects, which enables the building of shared knowledge.
Most of our research projects combine qualitative and quantitative data and methods. CRT's easy access to regionalized statistical data and model work strengthens our research.
Close contact with actors
In CRT’s research, we often have close relationships and dialogues with clients and partners. In particular, we work closely with practitioners and stakeholders in local and regional business promotion, education planning, tourism development and citizen-driven innovation.
Together with our research focus on rural-peripheral areas, our close collaborative relationships with practitioners is an attractive factor for collaboration and cooperation with universities and other research environments.
A research center in rural-peripheral areas
Over our 30 years as a research centre, we have shown that being a small organisation is not a disadvantage. We are not a supertanker, but an academically broad research community that is maneuverable in the processes of ever-changing conditions and trends in regional and local development.
We follow the same rules as universities for employment in research positions: researchers must have a PhD degree, they must publish in recognised research channels, and they must participate in Danish and international research networks.
CRT currently has four experienced senior scientists, all of whom are qualified senior researchers.
