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New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at iCourts - Pedro Cuesta Garcia

20 August 2023 - 30 June 2024

PhD project explores more sustainable consumer habits in canteens

Can a cloud-based scaling system reduce Food waste and increase the intake of plant-based foods? In this article, PhD student Sujita Pandey talks about her research into which strategies can be implemented into canteen…

Mikkel Lindgreen Lauritsen

The recasting of the Renewable energy directive and its impact on environmentally protected flora and fauna

Mikkel Lindgreen Lauritsen

The recasting of the Renewable energy directive and its impact on environmentally protected flora and fauna

New project to map the impact of artificial intelligence on science

How do scientists use the AI models in their work, and what impact will AI have on the scientific community? A new project supported by VILLUM FONDEN will map and discuss the use of artificial intelligence.

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Lavinia Francesconi

27 November - 22 December 2023

Jakob Egholt Søgaard on the frontpage of Weekendavisen

Jakob is talking about insights from his research on gender equality and the consequences of the recent introduction of earmarked parental leave.

Network on Transboundary Pandemic Crises Governance

Over the course of the last two years researchers & practitioners from a range of disciplines gathered online over two workshops to examine matters of governance, policy, inequity and vulnerability in relation to the…

Sundhedsprofessioner i forandring? Konfliktdynamikker i forebyggelsesarbejde på danske hospitaler

Lektor Inge Kryger Pedersen har bidraget med tidskriftartiklen "Sundhedsprofessioner i forandring? Konfliktdynamikker i forebyggelsesarbejde på danske hospitaler" i i Dansk Sociologi, 33(3), 2022. På danske hospitaler…

Higher education boosts earnings and mental well-being after job injuries

Society gains financially by retraining people who have been injured in accidents. This is the conclusion of economists from Copenhagen and Chicago in a new study.

Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen: Constant crisis policy threatens our imagination

Our political imagination becomes impoverished if we can only think in terms of crises and crisis solutions, says Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen.

Predicting Africa’s Future and its Political Ties to Denmark

Stig Jensen, Associate Professor at the Centre of African Studies, has recently been in the media to discuss Africa’s future and Denmark’s politics regarding Africa.

Large Danish food infrastructure collaboration bears fruit

Companies and research communities have achieved new standards of collaboration through the shared state-of-the-art laboratory center, FOODHAY, setting the stage for the development of cutting-edge knowledge and…

Miriam Wüst and Ida Lykke Kristiansen to present at CESifo Workshop on the Economics of Children in November

The workshop on the Economics of Children will be held in conjunction with the 2023 CESifo Munich Lectures in Economics. On 23 -24 November

New PRIVACY book: Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries

Ineke Huysman and former Privacy researcher and colleague Michael Green edited the book. The book contains PRIVACY contributions by Sanne Maekelberg, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakić and Michael Green.

New CMS Report: Small States and Large Weapons

Complex and important decisions must be made when small states buy large arms and other types of defence equipment. Materiel acquisition involves extensive political, organizational, economic, and operational interests…

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Carolina Fabara

15 October - 15 November 2023

Earth Beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

In Science Advances by Richardson, K., Steffen, W., Rockström, J., et al. (2023)

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Virginia Passalacqua

1 - 30 November 2023

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Ioana Sendroiu

17 September - 6 October 2023

Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology - DISTRACT talk with Christian Borch & Nicholas Skar-Gislinge

On Friday the 15th of September, 2023, professor Christian Borch & postdoc Nicholas Skar-Gislinge presented their work entitled ”Toward an Inter-Machine Sociology” in a DISTRACT talk. Abstract: Sociology has…

Cosmopolitan nationalism as an analytical lens: Four articulations in education policy

This paper extends Professor Claire Maxwell’s development of the concept of cosmopolitan nationalism (published in 2020 in the British Journal of Sociology of Education’s 40th anniversary special issue: The current and…

Is Danish research ready for data-driven interdisciplinarity?

Data-driven research is rushing forward with enormous potential, but is easily drowned in practice.

Kliniknær Bæredygtighed - workshop for Ph.d.-vejledere deadline 19/9 (In Danish)