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Academia and industry join forces to improve critical maritime infrastructure protection

The attacks on the Nordstream and Baltic Connector pipelines have shown the vulnerability of maritime infrastructures. How can pipelines, cables and offshore windfarms be better protected? A symposium seeks answers.

Danish researchers puncture 100-year-old theory of odd little 'water balloons'

Quinoa and many other extremely resilient plants are covered with strange balloon-like 'bladders' that for 127 years were believed to be responsible for protecting them from drought and salt. Research results from the…

Danish researchers puncture 100-year-old theory of odd little 'water balloons'

Quinoa and many other extremely resilient plants are covered with strange balloon-like 'bladders' that for 127 years were believed to be responsible for protecting them from drought and salt. Research results from the…

The Resilience of Africa's Democracies and the Their Military Coups

Associate Professor, Stig Jensen, has recently been in the media to discuss the ongoing military coups that many African counties are experiencing. He explains that many citizens in the countries in Africa that have…

Panel discussion on digital dependencies at Tech Policy Days

Last Friday DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen took part in a panel discussion on digital dependencies held as part of the Tech Policy Days and the launch of the Tech Policy Youth Committee

Do you find work using an app or an online platform?

The GIG-OSH research project is conducting a large survey and is searching for respondents among platform workers

The other China shock

Chinese demand for food imports has resulted in a significant increase in global cropland and higher profits for farmers exposed to this demand shock.

Commemorative Lecture by Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact

Professor Bente Halkier and PhD student Amanda Krog Juvik have together with Toke Haunstrup Christensen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen published the paper "Exploring routinization and reflexivity i…

Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters

In 2022, Postdoc Camilla Bank Friis published the article: "Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters" in the journal Symbolic Interaction. People who interact with…

Health professions in transition? Workplace artefacts as a window into interprofessional dynamics in chronic disease prevention

Associate Professor Inge Kryger Pedersen has published the paper 'Health professions in transition? Workplace artefacts as a window into interprofessional dynamics in chronic disease prevention' in the journal Dansk…

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Climate change and ocean governance

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Aden Knaap

27 November - 8 December 2023

Fixing the EU VAT system with technology?

You are hereby cordially invited to the 1,5-day Conference on Fixing the EU VAT system with technology? on 16-17 November 2023, where we will discuss and consider the way(s) towards a contemporary, fraud-proof and…

New Postdoc at CECS - Melissa Hubahib Loja

Melissa Hubahib Loja is a postdoc in the EASTERNISATION project, which examines empirical data from post-World War II to the present on the infrastructure of international law being built by Russia and China.

New Postdoc at CECS - Sergii Masol

Sergii Masol is a new postdoc at CECS. He will be exploring the Russian approaches to international law within the framework of the EASTERNISATION research project “Power Shifts and Regionalisation of International Law”…

New visiting researcher at iCourts - Max Steuer

4 - 22 December 2023

Rikke Haugegaard publishes article in new military academic journal

CGC's Rikke Haugegaard has recently published an article in the new academic journal Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations.

Working conditions in aviation: How aviation tackled the COVID-19 crisis

A major European research project has highlighted working conditions in aviation before and during the COVID-19-pandemic. In two new reports Steen E. Navrbjerg/FAOS analyses the development in Denmark.

Five social science projects to investigate green transition

Five projects in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science receive a total of DKK 15.8 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) from the programme supporting independent green research.

Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that ma…

Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that ma…

We can save lives and millions with less nitrate in drinking water

Denmark could save lives and more than $300 million a year by reducing the amount of nitrate in its drinking water. This, according to calculations by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and…

Black Americans from well-educated families continue to face educational barriers

While racial disparities in education have narrowed in the US, African American individuals from well-educated backgrounds still find it especially difficult to attain the same high level of education as their parents.