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From dairy proteins to plant-based sidestreams

Having recently started on the tenure track, Assistant Professor Norbert Raak seeks to use knowledge and research on dairy proteins to better utilize plant-based resources for food.

New Visiting Reseacher at MOBILE - Ezgi Yildiz

Ezgi Yildiz is visiting MOBILE from May 13th to July 12th.

New Group for Research in Punishment (GRIP)

GRIP is committed to rigorous explorations within the field of punishment and its consequences, particularly with a focus on four subthemes: 1) Execution of Sentences, 2) Process and Scope of Punishment, 3) Historical…

People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory

The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of…

Deregulation Of Environmental Law and Rising Authoritarianism in India

This is an edited extract of Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests by Arpitha Kodiveri, an environmental law and justice scholar, published by Melbourne University Press.

The Sustainability of the Environmental Product Trade: Joining Ecology and Economics in the Nepali Himalayas

Professor Carsten Smith-Hall is global leader in environmental products and livelihoods research. He publishes in both natural and social science journals.

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - CHEN Mohan

1 November - 31 December 2024

New visitor at CECS - Karl Riesenhuber

1 May - 30 June 2024

Climate crisis: New project explores how flexible our eating habits are

Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the departments of Anthropology and Sociology will study the eating habits of four generations and how they relate to environmental and climate issues.

Economist to investigate leaders' influence on rising inequality

With a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, economist Daniel le Maire will explore how leadership philosophy and values among top managers can contribute to decades of rising inequality in industrialised…

New Visiting Reseacher at MOBILE - Florian Hoffmann

Florian Hoffmann is visiting MOBILE from May 15th to June 30th.

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Amanda Bills

1 - 30 June 2024

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen moderates government´s international migration conference

On May 6th, MOBILE center director Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen moderated the Copenhagen Migration Conference organized by the Danish government.

Reshaping Welfare in the Digital Age

Reshaping Welfare in the Digital Age: Algorithmic Challenges in the Platform Work Landscape.

Trine Mygind Korsby is one of the two keynote speakers at the yearly conference of the Danish Centre against Human Trafficking

Her keynote addresses the relationships between human traffickers and people identified as victims of human trafficking.

At last a Directive protecting platform work – Now what?

Read Catherine Jacqueson and Alberto Barrio's comment on the new directive on platform work.

Registration for the UN Climate Change Conference, Bonn 2024

Apply for accreditation for the UN Climate Change Conference, Bonn 2024.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen on Podcast: Discussing EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum

On the Danish podcast Udsyn, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen speaks about the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.

Helene Willadsen presents at Trygfonden seminar at Aarhus University

On April 25th DISTRACT postdoc Helene Willadsen presented on gendered differences in choice of education at a Trygfonden seminar at Aarhus University.

Dag Hammarskjöld - UN Hero?

In a recent podcast produced by Radio4 titled ‘Verden Kalder’, Associate Professor Stig Jensen delves into the history surrounding Dag Hammarskjöld, in light of the recently released movie about his life. Stig speaks…

New visitor at CeBIL - Ayushi Agarwal

1 June – 14 July

New visitor at CECS - Silja Voeneky

27 May - 25 June 2024

Dagmar starts daycare earlier - and that has no essential effect on her

What the average two weeks earlier start means for the individual tumbling is difficult to test. Of course, it is far from random who rushes back to work and who finds it a little difficult to let go of their young…

Fixin’ to be flexitarian: Scrap fish and invasive species can liven up vegetables

Greening the way we eat needn’t mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to “boring” vegetables. University of Copenhagen gastrophysicist Ole G.…