News about Identity

Invisible Citizens - Researching the Marginalising Effects of Ghana Card

CERTIZENS member Ramatu Issah reflects critically on her thesis fieldwork with Zabarmas and Fulanis in Ghana and their experiences in obtaining 'Ghana Cards'.

"Left Behind" - A Poetic Research Reflection on Head Porters in Accra

CERTIZENS MPhil student Gifty Louisa Cobbinah skilfully shares her fieldwork experiences with head porters in Accra Central Market and their experiences with citizen registration through a poem.

Researching Birth Registration Among Karamojong Migrants in Jinja

CERTIZENS MPhil Paul Morris Musoke researches the stalling numbers of birth registration in Uganda and reflects on his fieldwork with the Karamojong migrants in Jinja.

Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

In January 2024 CERTIZENS convened an East Africa Regional Workshop in Kampala with the title Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens. Mostly…

CERTIZENS first MA graduate, Moses Muluba, researched birth registration in Eastern Uganda

Moses Muluba (CERTIZENS Uganda) shares insights from his MA thesis on ‘Unfolding diverse citizen response to birth registration in Iganga district, Uganda (1904-2021)'. He was the first to graduate in December 2023 out…

CERTIZENS Regional Workshop on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

We are hosting an East Africa Regional Workshop in Kampala from 15-17 January 2024, with the title Changing ID Systems in East Africa: Histories, Policies and Practices and the Reshaping of States and Citizens.

Professor: Working with Big Bang and ecosystems should make youth tremble

Science has an entirely overlooked educational capacity – to help young people forming their identity. Therefore, science deserves more than the ancillary role that it plays today. Middle and high school teachers should…

How ideas about nature shape processes of tribal identity: Two sides of tribal ecologies in contemporary India

By Stephen Christopher, Matthew Shutzer and Raile Rocky Ziipao

Visiting PhD Researcher Leonie Jegen at CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Get to know CERTIZENS' new guest researcher and learn how her PhD work relates to citizenship certification in African contexts.

Workshop Call: CERTIZENS East Africa Regional Workshop 15-17 January 2024

The CERTIZENS Research Project invites submissions for a workshop in Kampala, Uganda from 15-17 January 2024 on Changing ID Systems in East Africa

Philosopher: Mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations

Mindfulness is one of the most widespread forms of therapy for people suffering from stress, and many report that they benefit greatly from it. However, the philosophical assumptions on which mindfulness is based are…

Paradox: Well-integrated immigrants report more discrimination

Immigrants and their descendants are more likely to report experiences of discrimination if they are well-educated and socially well-integrated. A new international meta-study confirms the so-called integration paradox.

New Symposium of Religion and Society edited by Andreas Bandak and Simon Stjernholm

A new symposium entitled Engaging Religion has just been published open access with Religion and Society. The collection invites an open conversation about what is lost and what can be found in the translations and…

Britishness has been on the decline since the colonies began to leave the Empire

When a number of British colonies demanded independence after World War 2, they kick-started the decolonisation process, which has since emptied the concept of 'Britishness' of meaning. Even Great Britain is falling…

Estimating social bias in data sharing behaviours: an open science experiment

Postdoc Claudia Acciai and Associate Professor Mathias Wullum Nielsen have published the article “Estimating social bias in data sharing behaviours: an open science experiment” in Scientific Data. The article is written…

Fieldwork reflections: Studying the social life of ‘global’ ID policy

Amanda Wendel Malm, one of CERTIZENS’ PhD researchers, shares some of her fieldwork reflections on the discrepancies in prioritisation of and resource allocation to different spheres of citizen registration

Universal connectivity by 2030, will Africa ever get there?

Read one of CERTIZENS’ MPhil researchers, Gifty Cobbinah reflections on an online report- ‘Digital 2023: Global Overview Report’

Featuring CERTIZENS at Copenhagen University

Read about the public seminar at the Centre of African Studies featuring the research of CERTIZENS Dr Kojo Opoku Aidoo, and Dr Godfrey Asiimwe

Guest PhD researcher, Nai Kalema, links up with CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Read Nai Kalema’s responses to some key questions about herself, her doctoral research focus, and how she sees her research relating specifically to CERTIZENS.

Student project grants 2022/2023

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It’s all about engaging

To Tom Yagel, an Israeli full-degree student at UCPH, coming to Denmark has been a life-long dream. UCPH has lived up to his expectations, but for Tom engaging in extracurricular activities on campus and in Danish…

Participating in student politics

Henry Lankes, an international student from Germany studying Nature Management (MSc) at UCPH, was recently elected as a student representative on the Geosciences Study Board. What motivated him to run for election? Do…

Student engagement

This issue of our newsletter has a student view. In an earlier issue we focused on student well-being inside and outside the classroom with articles on the challenges faced by international students in the classroom and…

Introducing the CERTIZENS Podcast

A podcast connecting scholars and practitioners working on ID systems in diverse global settings.