News about The University

Bastian Vaucanson successfully defended his PhD thesis

On Friday January 13 2023, PhD Student at Centre for Privacy Studies, Bastian Felter Vaucanson successfully defended his PhD thesis, “La conversation éternelle. L’intimité spirituelle dans la correspondance…

Conceptual performance artist is awarded the Sonning Prize

Body and gaze are the focal points of the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović, who is also known as ‘the godmother of performance art’. She is known for using herself and her body and for actively involving the…

Four researchers receive DKK 114 million to expand knowledge of the human brain

Four ambitious research projects will pave the way for new treatments of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, substance use disorder and many other conditions.

New NNF communication grant

Emma Aller and Niels Christian Sanden receives grant to build up novel communication platform

Professor Anne Holmen co-edits new book on translanguaging

The book Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research is published on 31 January. Professor and centre leader at CIP, Anne Holmen, is co-editor. Purchase the book at 50% off before 31…

Merlin Schaeffer has been appointed professor and new head of studies at the Department of Sociology

Merlin Schaeffer has been appointed professor and new head of studies at the Department of Sociology.

The Vetschool receives important accreditation: “It means everything!”

The EAEVE accreditation is vital to the veterinary programme’s international collaborations and the existence of the animal hospitals. “Without it, too many doors would close on us,” says Professor Charlotte Reinhard…

Research project on Ukrainian refugees receives funding from the Carlsberg Foundation

A research project on the mental health of Ukrainian refugees supported by the Crown Princess Mary Center has received additional funding for data collection.

Niels Behrendt receives the NNF Distinguished Innovator Grant

Niels Behrendt, group leader at the Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet/BRIC receives the NNF Distinguished Innovator grant for a project focused on creating test ADC therapeutics.

Eight SUND-researchers receive grants to high-risk projects

Research daredevils from Danish universities and hospitals receive the Lundbeck Foundation Experiment grant to implement high-risk projects.

Congratulations to Mads Lerdrup

On being awarded a grant from The Novo Nordisk Foundation

Sustainable labs are climate-friendly and save money

More than 1,200 researchers and laboratory technicians are involved in a new programme that has led to more sustainable laboratories at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It benefits the climate and creates green…

Featuring CERTIZENS at Copenhagen University

Read about the public seminar at the Centre of African Studies featuring the research of CERTIZENS Dr Kojo Opoku Aidoo, and Dr Godfrey Asiimwe

Guest PhD researcher, Nai Kalema, links up with CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Read Nai Kalema’s responses to some key questions about herself, her doctoral research focus, and how she sees her research relating specifically to CERTIZENS.

Grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation autumn 2022

In autumn 2022, three research leaders from the Department of Biology received grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

New article published in Privacy Studies Journal

A new article has been published in Centre for Privacy Studies’ very own open access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal: Privacy Studies Journal (PSJ). The article titled Position Paper: Escaping Academic…

A visit from Frederiksberg Gymnasium

In late November a biotechnology class from Frederiksberg Gymnasium visited our labs and got an introduction to Evolutionary Hologenomics by researchers Caroline Winther-Have and Morten Limborg from the Center for…

A visit from Frederiksberg Gymnasium

In late November a biotechnology class from Frederiksberg Gymnasium visited our labs and got an introduction to Evolutionary Hologenomics by researchers Caroline Winther-Have and Morten Limborg. The feedback from the…

Opening Hours: Christmas and New Year

During Christmas and New Year 2022 the library has the following opening hours. December 23 9 - 17 December 24 - 26 Closed December 27 - 30 9 - 17 December 31 - January 1 Closed We wish you all a Merry…

Policies' implications on labor supply and inequality within families

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen has been awarded The Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from The Carlsberg Foundation

Researchers receive grant to develop digital tool for ethnographic research

Morten Axel Pedersen and August Lohse receive Carlsberg Foundation's 'Research Infrastructure Grant' for a new research platform.

Videnskabsklubben receives the Amalienborg Prize

December 13, Professor Petrine Wellendorph participated in a ceremony at Amalienborg, where Videnskabsklubben received the Amalienborg Prize from HM Queen Margrethe on behalf of Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond…

An ode to people who work in labs

With a short film, Postdoc Thomas Hughes has delivered an atypical anthropological product at the outskirts of academia – even though the film is celebrating science.

The value of strong international collaboration

International collaboration is at the heart of what I work with every day. It comes in many shapes and forms through projects, bilateral relations and alliances. For me, the students and their education are my centre of…