Society, Politics & Law

PhD Stine Simonsen Puri's dissertation deals with gambling at the New Delhi racecourse. It provides an insight into the major illicit Indian economy, which many Indians rely more on than the legal one – but which we do…

The Universities of Copenhagen, Basel, Hertfordshire and King’s College, London, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding whereby they will work together in harmonising programmes to produce a common Masters programme…

The University of Copenhagen has met its first climate goal of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions 25%. The next sustainability targets are in sight.

Climate fiction – or simply cli-fi – is a newly coined term for novels and films which focus on the consequences of global warming. New research from University of Copenhagen shows how these fictions serve as a mental…

Danish newspapers mirror to a high degree the viewpoints of the political elite when Danish military participation in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya has been on the public agenda during the past 10 years.

Responsible research has been put firmly on the political agenda with, for instance, EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. New research from the University of Copenhagen reveals that the scientists themselves place great emphasi…

Professor Jacob Graff Nielsen has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law starting 1 April 2014.

It is far from always that international sanctions and diplomatic pressure have the intended effect. This is one of the findings in new research conducted by Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of…

People who have suffered a stroke often experience severe fatigue. But doctors find it hard to help these patients as their experiences of fatigue may not necessarily be caused by physiological problems.

In his new book, Engaging with Reality: Documentary and Globalization, Professor Ib Bondebjerg of the University of Copenhagen considers how documentary films address global challenges in far greater depth than news…

The Internet and social media provide easy and instant access to an abundance of information but do not make us better equipped to make rational decisions; on the contrary, the technology amplifies irrational social…

The new study programme in Security Risk Management at the University of Copenhagen will provide the students with the tools to analyze and act in a globalized reality with many threats from a number of things from…

Law Professor Morten Broberg has been awarded the EliteForsk research award for his work to establish 'international development law' as a field of study.

The University of Copenhagen offers a new MSc study programme in Global Development.

By means of so-called health coaching, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have helped a large group of diabetics to markedly improve their oral health.

Greenland would benefit most by permitting a limited number of mines, operational for a limited number of years, in a limited number of areas, concludes a new report compiled by the University of Copenhagen and…

A new study from the University of Copenhagen’s OPUS Research Centre reports that being overweight makes children less active. The findings underscore that parents of overweight children have an obligation to keep their…

Large Danish population study on pregnancy and alcohol lacks focus on important psychological factors, claims the researcher behind the new PhD thesis.