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Elite coaches see compassion as a path to better performance

The potential of using compassion as a tool in elite sport is high, both for the individual athlete and in terms of sporting results, a new study involving Danish high-performance coaches shows.

Emilie Munch Gregersen presents at Digital Tech Summit 2024

On October 30th DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen presented at the Digital Tech Summit, where she pitched the digital fieldnote app Ethnote designed for collecting, sharing, and analyzing qualitative data. …

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Emil Sliwinski

22 April - 2 May 2025

Political discrimination against job applicants is being investigated

New project at the Department of Sociology to investigate whether employers discriminate against political employees because of their political leanings. The project is supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark…

Two new DFF grants on arctic research awarded to Globe researchers

Two new grants to explore the adaptations and use of ancient sled dogs in SW Greenland and recent demographic changes in Arctic whales

“I just love the internet” – Sebastian Barfort makes the business case for social data science

Almost ten years ago, Sebastian Barfort finished his PhD in Economics on this campus. Today, he’s an associate partner at consultancy firm Round. He’s also a member of the employer panel for KU’s Master’s program in…

A Legal Revolution: Interview with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, director of MOBILE talks about the center's work on rethinking the role of law in migration and mobility in a new interview with the Danish National Research Foundation.

New visitor at CeBIL - Taner Kuru

27 January - 7 February 2025

The Strategic Choice of a Trade Union during the 2019 GM–UAW Strike and Member Satisfaction

In a new article in ILR Review Maite Tapia, Christian L. Ibsen et al. shows how the share of transfer workers can affect member satisfaction and voting in relation to strikes and collective agreements in local trade…

Exploring our ability to switch between focus and flexibility

How do we maintain focus while constantly navigating flexibly between new information and impressions? The answer is called meta-control, an ability that will be explored in a new project supported by the Independent…

Inter-CeBIL Postdoc Sebastian Porsdam chairs a panel at the CIS Workshop on dialogue between the public and scholars

Source: CIS On Friday, November 1, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (CIS) is holding a workshop on the dialogue between scholars and the public, the dissemination of science, and the right to science.…

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…

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.

Securing living hours among part-time workers in hotels and restaurants in Northern Europe

In a new article in European Journal of Industrial Relations, Anna Ilsøe, Trine P. Larsen et al., shows how the social partners use social dialogue to increase the weekly working hours for employees in the hotel and…

Social Partner Responses to AI in Denmark and Sweden

In a new article in ILR Review, Anna Ilsøe, Trine P. Larsen et al., shows how the social partners have responded to the increasing digitisation and the introduction of AI tools in Denmark and Sweden.

The search for the origin of our self-awareness

How do infants become aware of their own existence? Professor Victoria Southgate aims to answer this question in a new project supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

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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.

William Byrne Receives NordForsk Grant of 702.656 NOK

NordForsk has awarded Assistant Prof. William Byrne (UCPH), along with Postdoc Runar Lie (UiO) and Prof. Thomas Troels Hildebrandt (UCPH), a grant of 702.656 NOK to support work within the project "Nordic Refugee…

AI can now be our eyes and ears in the forest and beneath the waves

Animal sounds combined with artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize biodiversity monitoring both on land and in aquatic settings according to researchers from the University of Copenhagen. By analyzing wildlife…

Isaac Weldon: How societal systems shape global health outcomes

Meet Isaac Weldon, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Sound wave technology can reduce the use of plastic and reagents in laboratories

University of Copenhagen’s climate footprint increased from 2022 to 2023, mainly due to laboratories. Acoustic dispenser tech can make labs more sustainable.

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Joseph Wasonga

10 - 20 November 2024

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…