About me

• Name: Anisiya Flarup Christensen
• Study program and semester: Economics, 7. semester
• Running for: The academic council for The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
• Name of the list: Studentersamfundet 

Hello! I am Anisiya, and I enjoy my university life. I enjoy volunteering, socializing and developing with my fellow students, I enjoy my studies with all its ups and downs, and I enjoy being part of the life of AAU. Often my calendar is filled as I am part of the board of both BEST (Board of European students of Technology) and Studentersamfundet, my current hobbies include revitalizing the awesome social and collaborative student culture, which was unfortunately subdued during the COVID-19 lockdowns. When I’m not engaged in organizational work, you can find me dealing with the occasional subject-related stress, or hanging out with people from diverse faculties across AAU.

I look forward to meeting you around campus!

Key issues

This semester I realized that, to reach my academic potential, I needed to take courses beyond the boundaries of my own programme in economics. I sought qualifications which my degree did not offer, but quickly discovered how difficult it was to navigate the system: finding the right contacts, securing approvals across institutes, and understanding the rules of cross-faculty enrolment.

This experience revealed a wider problem, interdisciplinary opportunities exist, but accessing them is unnecessarily complicated and unexpected.

Increase Access to Interdisciplinary Education
Students across SSH should be able to supplement their core competencies with courses from other institutes and faculties, without facing bureaucratic hurdles. Interdisciplinary should not be the weird exception; it should be a supported pathway for those who seek it.
I will work within the Academic Council to simplify cross-faculty course approvals. Students should not have to navigate a maze of individual contacts, differing procedures, and unclear responsibilities. Furthermore, I will advocate for the creation of a transparent, easily accessible list of courses open to students across SSH and beyond. This would give students a real chance to design a more flexible academic profile, tailored to their ambitions and career goals.

Strengthen the Resilience of SSH Programmes Against Future Closure.
In a political climate where degree programmes risk closure due to narrow interpretations of erhvervsrelevans (business relevance) and fluctuating student numbers, interdisciplinarity is both a strengthening of academic abilities of students. Furthermore, it will increase the freedom of students to tailor their education to fit the future job market, which the university seems very concerned about on our behalf. Strengthening collaboration across fields makes our programmes more adaptive and outward-facing.
We can learn from the near-closure of Techno-Anthropology. The programme survived because of student mobilization and a renewed recognition of its ‘real-world’ value. This should remind us that sometimes quick judgments are made, and the value of knowledge is not always obvious. Humanities and social sciences still matter in society, and much to some people’s surprise, also in the job market. The faculty has to advertise its relevance, not diminish it.
Our faculty must not downplay its relevance. It must demonstrate it, advocate for it, and make it visible. Other policies I am advocating for to strengthen our resilience includes:

1. Build Stronger External Partnerships
Increase collaborations with municipalities, NGOs, cultural institutions, think-tanks, unions, and public sector organizations. This can be through courses, semester projects or internships related to the university.

2. Strengthen Communication About Research
Humanities and social sciences often have relevance, what they lack is narrative visibility. We need faculty-wide communication strategy that showcases research impact and student projects. Faculty-wide events where students, researchers, and partners show the power of the knowledge we are capable of bringing to the world. Furthermore, we need to encourage cross-disciplinary research.

3. Improve Graduate Visibility and Outcomes
Even when graduates thrive, more technical disciplines often overshadow their success. We need to overturn the stereotype of the unemployable student. I propose we increase the highlighting non-linear, diverse SSH career trajectories publicly and concrete cases where SSH competencies have made a difference.

Why vote for me

Why vote for me? Because our faculty requires voices that are not afraid to challenge outdated assumptions about relevance, employability, and academic value. I bring concrete proposals to strengthen our academic value, protect vulnerable programmes, and ensure that our faculty stops underselling itself. I will push for visibility, external partnerships, clearer communication of our strengths, and student-friendly structures. If you want someone who will actively defend and develop humanities and social sciences rather than quietly manage decline, then I am that candidate.