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Identity politics and activist research threaten the soul of the university. And it needs to be stopped – now. This was the message from a number of determined researchers at a hearing organised by Danish politicians Morten Messerschmidt and Henrik Dahl at the Danish parliament.
Marianne Stidsen is finished. She has quit her associate professor position at the University of Copenhagen after accusations of plagiarism, and she is now withdrawing from the public debate. But in what she calls her last interview, she says that she leaves in the same high spirits as when she arrived.
Controversial associate professor Marianne Stidsen has resigned from her position at the University of Copenhagen after a turbulent few weeks. Her doctoral dissertation is now being investigated for plagiarism, after it emerged some of her other publications contain long passages copied from other texts.