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Interview with Nick Baumgart

COPE interviews Nick Baumgart, PhD fellow at the Global Health Section and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His PhD focuses on heat-related vulnerabilities in Kenya and is part of the Climate Chang…

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area

Associate Professor Emmanuel Raju and PhD Fellow Nick Baumgart from COPE and the Global Health Section join their peers in this new study (featured on the Guardian) titled "Climate change increased the likelihood of…

Many Greenlanders Face 10 Times Higher Risk of Diabetes – Exercise May Be Their Only Solution

A significant portion of the Greenlandic Inuit population carries a genetic variant that increases their risk of type 2 diabetes tenfold. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that the key t…

New blog post by Mercy King’ori on the nuances of privacy in contemporary African communities

In November 2024 we had the pleasure to welcome Mercy King’ori, Lawyer and Policy Analyst in Privacy and Data Protection, at the recurring PRIVACY Challenge Seminar. Here, she gave a lecture on her research regarding…

Master Thesis Presentation: Carol Nyangoma Mukisa

Carol Nyangoma Mukisa, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, presents her thesis on 'Examining women’s experiences in the process of accessing and…

Master Thesis Presentation: Gifty Louisa Cobbinah

Gifty Louisa Cobbinah, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, presents her thesis on 'Digitisation and Certification in the Informal Sector: Case Study of…

Master Thesis Presentation: Jonathan Mwesige

Jonathan Mwesige, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of History Archeology and Heritage Studies, Makerere University, presents his thesis on 'Separatist Movement and Identification Documents…

Master Thesis Presentation: Mary Stella Byona

Mary Stella Byona, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Political Science, Makerere University, presents her thesis on 'ICT and E-Passport Management in Uganda Immigration Office: A Case…

Master Thesis Presentation: Nageeba Hassan Tegulwa

Nageeba Hassan Tegulwa, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Religion & Peace Studies, Makerere University, presents her thesis on 'Refugee Identity Card and Its Impact on the Somali…

Master Thesis Presentation: Paul Morris Musoke

Paul Morris Musoke, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Development Studies, Makerere University, presents his thesis on 'Factors Influencing Birth Registration Among the Migrant Karamajon…

Master Thesis Presentation: Rafiatu Abdul Rauf

Rafiatu Abdul Rauf, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, presents her thesis on 'Understanding the Gendered Experiences of the Use and Control of the…

Master Thesis Presentation: Ramatu Issah

Ramatu Issah, CERTIZENS member and recent master's graduate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, presents her thesis on 'Citizenship and Marginalization: A Comparative Analysis of the Experiences of…

Call for Submissions: CERTIZENS West Africa Regional Workshop

The CERTIZENS Research Project invites submissions for a workshop in Accra, Ghana, from 7-9 April 2025, on Changing ID Systems in West Africa: Policies, Practices and Contestations in the Reshaping of States and Citizen…

CUDP

CUDP དྷ་སྟོད་ཁོར་ཡུག་གཙང་བཟོའི་ལས་གཞི་ལོ་ངོ་ ༣༠ འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན། རྩོམ་པ་པོ། བསྟན་འཛིན་པ་སངས་ & Trine Brox ༢༠༢༤ ལོའི་ཟླ་༦ཚེས་༥ཉིན་ནི་འཛམ་གླིང་ཁོར་ཡུག་ཉིན་མོ་ཡིན་པ་དང་དེ་ནི་དྷ་སྟོད་ཁོར་ཡུག་གཙང་བཟོའི་ལས་གཞི་(CUDP – Clea…

Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas

Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Associate Professor at KU discusses her project on urban encroachment in Ghana and Tanzania.

Articles on Ghana’s Election 2024

Dive into the latest articles exploring Ghana’s 2024 Elections and gain valuable insights from experts, including Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach.

One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This rare, natural flooding…

One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This rare, natural flooding…

Analyzing President Biden's Visit to Angola

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has recently analyzed President Biden's visit to Angola from December 2-4, 2024, in articles published on pov.international and Altinget.

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc fellowship for 2 exciting projects.

New Discovery Uncovers the Malaria Parasite’s Achilles’ Heel

The new study, that has just been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, reveals the first broadly neutralizing antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum - the parasite responsible for the most severe…

How does compassion for animals develop and take root?

Looking at Tibetans and Indians who provide care for stray animals in northern India, a new anthropological project will explore how people develop a compassion-based ethics through their encounters with animals.

Interview with Olivier Rubin

COPE interviews Olivier Rubin, Professor of Disaster Research and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research.

HOWA Research Project – CEA/CAS Workshop Highlights

In the framework of the Marie Sklodowska Curie-funded research project HOWA, hosted by the Centre for African Studies, an interdisciplinary workshop was held at the Centre of African Studies at the University of…