News about The University

HUM:Global co-establishes new global outreach project, META-UN

HUM:Global together with Flagship 2 of the 4EU+ European University Alliance at the University of Copenhagen have taken the initiative to launch a global outreach project.

Meet the new Dr Abildgaard Fellow from SIC

Wenning Zheng is among the four talented skin researchers to receive a LEO Foundation Dr Abildgaard Fellowship 2024 of DKK 12 million. She receives the fellowship for her skin research, which addresses a critical…

Political discrimination against job applicants is being investigated

New project at the Department of Sociology to investigate wheter employers disciminate against political employees because of their political learnings. The project is supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Research towards a more sustainable Arctic

Out of the ten impressive grants, two went to support interesting projects at the Department of Biology: Jing Tang received DKK 3,167,595 for the project: Arctic Cooling from Anthropogenic and Natural Emissions (ARCANE)…

Hui-Yi Yang begins her PhD project at PRIVACY

On October 1st, Hui-Yi Yang's PhD project officially began. Yang has been at the Centre for Privacy studies for several months as a guest researcher, conducting her research in architectural history, but it was not…

Last three episodes of Privacy Studies Podcast Season 5 ‘Privacy and Death’

The last three episodes of Privacy Studies Podcast season 5 ‘Privacy and Death’ have been released. Listen to the new episodes on our website, where you will also find the first nine episodes of this season as well as…

PhD student Bárbara Gonçalves Textor does exchange project at PRIVACY

This month we welcomed Bárbara Gonçalves Textor as a guest scholar to the Centre for Privacy Studies. Textor is a PhD candidate at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Her research addresses gender relations, through…

Dates and deadlines for winter 2024/2025 at the Graduate School

Please be aware of the following dates and deadlines for winter 2024/2025: The Graduate School administration will be closed from 20 December 2024 at 14:00 until 2 January 2025 at 10:00. No case processing will occur…

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance

In a new article in Regulation & Governance Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Ida Marie N. Jensen analyzes whether polycentric governance is able to promote the development of fair green transition.

Jakob Demant appointed professor in the Department of Sociology

On 1 November, Jakob Demant will become a full professor in the Department of Sociology, where he has worked since 2014.

Bastian Felter Vaucanson gives guest lecture in Montréal

Bastian Felter Vaucanson will be giving an invited lecture at the seminary of the Groupe de recherche en histoire des sensibilités at the University of Montréal on 14 November 2024. His lecture will address the…

Borderland Field Course 2024

During the past month of July, 28 students from around the world arrived in Chiang Mai for the summer course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research and Engagement in the Global South. Watch the video from the…

Change for PhD supervision: rules and regulations

No need to complete it more than once until end of 2027 The Deanery has decided that the requirement for principal PhD supervisors to complete the online course PhD supervision: rules and regulations every fifth year…

For the first time ever: A joint team of students from two universities win DM in AI

For the first time ever, a team of students from both the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been crowned the winner of the Danish National Championship in AI for students…

Green electricity requires flexible consumers

Denmark faces a significant challenge when we transition to an electricity system powered solely by renewable energy by 2030. ‘Wind and solar, which are our primary renewable energy sources, are fluctuating by nature,…

HUM:Global Annual Report out now

HUM:Global came into being in January 2024 and since then we have successfully launched initiatives that support the dissemination of research from both UCPH and international scholars and more.

Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis [TicToC]: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis

A new project has just been awarded 1.5 million euro with Andreas Bandak as Project Leader.

High school students promoted to real researchers

Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects — non-professionals can now conduct actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. Together with Danish high schools, the…

Visiting CIP: Insights and Experiences

In September 2024, CIP had the pleasure of hosting two guests: Dr. Reginald D’Silva, Associate Dean from The University of British Columbia, and Catherine Mu-Hua Chen-Fliege from Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen.

Independent Research Fund Denmark supports five social science projects

Researchers in Psychology, Economics and Sociology are among the recipients of the October 2024 grants from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Conference: Finansielle ungdomskulturer på tværs af gaming, gambling og investering

Anne Mette Thorhauge, Jacob Ørmen and Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen from the Center for Tracking and Society and the Department of Communication will hold a conference titled “Finansielle ungdomskulturer på tværs af…

Danish Open Acces Week

In week 43, the national Open Access Week will be held with a series of free webinars. Danish Open Access Week 2024 | 21 Oct -25. Oct. The Danish Network for Open Access can now present the third Danish Open Access…

Professor Ben Boyd receives the Dale E. Wurster Research Award

The prestigious award is given by AAPS, American Association of Pharmaceutical Science, to recognize an internationally renowned researcher.