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What Volunteers Do: Toward a Task-Centered Framework for Recognizing Informal Volunteering

New publication by Lærke Høgenhaven.

Natálie Polanská

Natálie Polanská is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.

Sophie Dukarm

Sophie Dukarm is a PhD student and a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

New CMS Report on the implications of climate change for Danish defence policy

The report examines, how climate change will affect the Danish Armed Forces' establishments and analyses the need for climate adaptation in Danish defence policy, both locally, nationally and through international…

Quantum Technology Governance: Law & Regulation

Quantum Technology Governance: Law and Regulation – Volume I offers an interdisciplinary analysis of emerging quantum technologies and their intersection with existing legal and regulatory frameworks, from intellectual…

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen on Podcast: Discussing how Denmark both deters and attracts immigration

On the podcast Højtryk, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansens speaks about Danish immigration politics.

Artificial intelligence may accelerate the path to radicalisation

AI algorithms and psychological vulnerabilities can interact and increase the risk of violent extremism. This is demonstrated by a new theoretical model developed by an international team of researchers.

Four new student assistants at MOBILE

Birgit Helena Dahl Hansen, Lea Elaine Wüthrich, Oscar James Warr & Oliver Ösmark have joined MOBILE as Student Assistants on the 4th of May 2026.

MOBILE Associate Professor Urška Šadl awarded funding for eFree project

Associate Professor at MOBILE, Urška Šadl, has been awarded funding by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

New investment to democratise access to genomics technology

Up to DKK 95 million in funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation will enable the implementation of the Genomics Research Infrastructure (GRI) and ensure open access to advanced functional genomics technology and…

Attitudinal and Emotional Outcomes and Drivers of Ordinary and Crisis Volunteering

This article examines how crisis volunteering and ordinary volunteering relates to prosocial attitudes and negative emotions, using a four-wave longitudinal survey of Danish adults (n = 1,225) from the COVID-19 pandemic…

INNER_LEAGUE Interview with the Editors of The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law

Interview with Haakon A. Ikonomou, Karin van Leeuwen, and Morten Rasmussen.

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Ramy Abdelhady

Ramy Abdelhady is visiting MOBILE from 1 May to 1 August 2026.

Uncertainty-based communication fuels vaccine scepticism

Even small changes in official health communication can have major consequences for both trust and behaviour regarding vaccination. This is shown by an international study using US data.

CEBI research covered in Financial Times

Research on how to support “left-behind” places by CEBI researchers Asger Lau Andersen and Niels Johannesen is featured in a recent Financial Times article.

Institutional Material Arrangements: An Approach to Understand Conditions for Sustainability Transition

Within theories of practice, there is a tradition for conceptualising how practices unfold within material arrangements.

New researcher at CLIMA - Ricardo Vásquez Dazarola

CLIMA is delighted to welcome Ricardo Vásquez Dazarola as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen.

When sickness spreads at home

New research forthcoming in the American Economic Review and featured in The Economist, shows that early-life exposure to common childhood infections can have lasting consequences.

First psychiatric admission marks the beginning of a long-term illness for most patients

By following a group of young people with mental health problems for 20 years, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found that as many as 95 per cent come into contact with hospital psychiatry again. At th…

Konstantinos Apostolidis

Visiting stay: May - June 2026

Miriam Wüst has been invited to be an editor at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

From April 1, 2026 on, CEBI associate professor Miriam Wüst has joined the editorial board of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics (SJE)

Podcast about food waste featuring CIP project

On behalf of the project group behind "Fighting food waste - navigating values choices and habits", Janus Mortensen participated in the podcast the ESG panel.

Researchers: Chatbots are biased and should not be used for political advice

Popular chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini are not neutral and tend to favor certain political parties when asked who users should vote for. This makes them unsuitable for providing advice in connection with elections,…

Sociology and anthropology to be merged into a single department

The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences has decided to initiate a process to merge the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Sociology into a single department by mid‑2027 at the latest.