Teaching is one of the most central and rewarding aspects of my academic work. I currently teach on the BA and MA Politics and Administration, BA Social Science, and the BA and MA Global and Development Studies at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. I have designed and taught courses in political science, political theory, political economy, and philosophy of science, as well as research design and various aspects of problem-oriented project work and study skills. Student-led problem-oriented projects forms a central part of the educational model at Roskilde University and a large part of my teaching has therefore been focused on supervising BA- and MA-semester projects, including multiple MA-theses, across a wide array of topics. I have also taught open courses on political theory and history at Folkeuniversitetet. Teaching such different subjects in a variety of formats to diverse groups, has provided me with important pedagogical skills, which I have refined through a Certificate in University Teaching and Learning from Roskilde University’s Unit for Academic Development. I have previously taught on the following courses (detailed teaching portfolio, course outlines, and course evaluations available upon request, subject to GDPR-restrictions).
Teaching and supervision:
2025- Co-supervisor of PhD thesis (4+4): Kristoffer Bayer “The Intellectual History of Danish Popular Identity” [Den danske folkeligheds idéhistorie] at the Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas, Aarhus University (on-going).
2025- Lecturer. Social Forms: Transformations and Globalization. BA-course at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: Lecture/classroom teaching, and exercises. Written exam (essay). 5 ECTS. Language: Danish. Approximately 100 students.
2024- Lecturer. Qualitative and Abductive Analytical Strategies in the Social Sciences. BA-course at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: Lecture/classroom teaching, and exercises. Oral exam (poster). 5 ECTS. Language: Danish. Approximately 90 students. Taught course twice.
2023- Lecturer. Introduction to Political Science. BA-course at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: Lecture, workshop, and exercises. Written exam (essay). 5 ECTS. Language: Danish. Approximately 100 students. Taught course three times.
2023- Lecturer. Study Techniques for the Social Sciences. Series of lectures and workshops for first-year BA-students at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: Lecture/classroom teaching and exercises. No exam. Not separately ECTS-accredited (preparation for the 15 ECTS problem-oriented semester project). Language: Danish. Approximately 100 students. Taught course four times.
2022- Supervisor on a number of BA- and MA-semester projects (including MA theses) in politics and administration, social science, and global and development studies at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: student-led problem-based project learning, supervision and workshops. Combined written (project report) and oral exam. 15-30 ECTS. Language: Danish. Approximately 180 hours per semester, every semester.
2019-20 Lecturer: Repoliticizing Capitalism: Contradictions, Critiques and Alternatives. Combined MA- and Ph.D.-course in political economy at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Methods: lecture/class teaching, exercises, and presentations. Written exam (essays). 7.5/10 ECTS. Language: English. Average 40 students. Taught course twice (but also see more below).
2019 Lecturer. Great Revolutions: Events that Changed the World. Public university course at Folkeuniversitetet Århus. Methods: lecture/class teaching and discussion. No exam. No ECTS-accreditation. Language: Danish. 60 students.
2018-23 Lecturer. Hannah Arendt. Public university course at Folkeuniversitetet Århus. Methods: lecture/class teaching and discussion. No exam. No ECTS-accreditation. Language: Danish. Average 60 students. Taught course three times.
2017 Course co-organiser and lecturer: The Russian Revolution. Public university course at Folkeuniversitetet Aarhus (double course running at both Aarhus and Emdrup campuses). Methods: lecture/class teaching. No exam. No ECTS-accreditation. Language: Danish. 50 students. Taught course twice.
2015-8 Course co-organiser and lecturer: Repoliticizing Capitalism: Contradictions, Critiques and Alternatives. Combined MA and Ph.D.-course in political economy at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Methods: lecture/class teaching, exercises, and presentations. written exam (essays). 7.5/10 ECTS. Language: English. Average 50 students. Taught course four times.
2015-16 Mentor for two Ph.D.-students. Method: supervision. Language: Danish and English.
2015 Course organizer and lecturer. From Philosophy to Social Theory. Ph.D.-seminar at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Methods: lecture/class teaching and workshop. No exam. No ECTS-accreditation. Language: Danish. 8 students.
2015 Lecturer. Classical and Modern Political Thinkers. BA-course at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: lecture/class teaching and exercises. Written exam (essay). 5 ECTS. Language: English. 30 students.
2015 Lecturer. Philosophy of Science. BA-course at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: lecture and workshop. Oral exam. 5 ECTS. Language: English. 80 students.
2015 Lecturer and workshop leader: German Idealism and the Philosophical Foundations of Modern Social Science. Voluntary sessions as part of the German language profile, Roskilde University. Methods: lecture/class teaching and workshop. No exam. No ECTS-accreditation. Language: English/German. 15 students.
2014-16 Supervisor on a number of BA- and MA-semester projects in politics and social science at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Method: supervision and workshops. Combined written (project report) and oral exam. 15 ECTS. Language: Danish and English. 150 hours teaching and preparation the relevant semesters.
FORMAL TRAINING
2024-5 Certificate of University Teaching and Learning. 205 hours over 18 months. Pedagogical research project (group): “Engaging Theory: A Dynamic Model for Teaching Social Science Theory in Higher Education.”Unit for Academic Development, Roskilde University.
2023 Course on Supervising Problem-Oriented Projects. Unit for Academic Development, Roskilde University
2015 Collegial intervision. 3-day course including peer-intervision, feedback, and reflection. Unit for Academic Development, Roskilde University.
2015 Course on Roskilde University’s Problem-Oriented Project-Learning Pedagogical Model and Group Supervision. Unit for Academic Development, Roskilde University.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Mikkel Flohr, et al, “The Red Thread: Lessons from Organizing the Annual Conferences of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies over the past Ten Years.” In Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future, ed. Mikkel Flohr (Problema: Copenhagen, 2025): 47-66.
Mikkel Flohr and Laura Horn, “Om at genpolitisere kapitalismen og genlæse Marx i dag: Erfaringer fra sommerskolen ‘Repoliticizing Capitalism: Contradictions, Critiques and Alternatives’” [On the Repoliticization of Capitalism and Rereading Marx Today: Experiences from the Summer School “Repoliticizing Capitalism: Contradictions, Critiques and Alternatives”]. In Kapitalen på dansk: Marx-læsninger gennem 150 år, ed. Magnus Møller Ziegler, Anne Engelst Nørgaard, Jakob Bek-Thomsen, & Bertel Nygaard (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2022): 301-308.
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