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CMS Researcher Cornelia Baciu publishes new article

CMS Researcher Cornelia Baciu has published a new article with the title ”Sinn von Sein. Foreign Policy, Memory and Changing Imaginaries and Practices of Neutrality in the Second Republic” in the journal Austrian Journa…

Lachlan Bryant Lugg

Investigation of the ongoing impacts of climate change in Australia

Retirement inequality - Mette Gørtz in News & Co

Danish women choose their pension on average 2 years before men, and there are several reasons for this, says Mette Gørtz when participating in TV2’s News & Co on Friday 13th.

New visitor at iCourts - Gabrielė Chlevickaitė

7 March - 30 April 2023

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…

Small-scale funding for cross-disciplinary plant-based food projects

Development of solutions (technical, products, ideas, concepts, etc.) must be based on cross-disciplinarity and co-creation with one or more end-users. The amount per pilot project is DKK 100-300,000. Max project perio…

CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau publishes the article "Transversal Politics of Big Tech"

CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau, together with Linda Monsees, Jonathan Luke Austin, Anna Leander and Swati Srivastava, investigates this in a new article "Transversal Politics of Big Tech" in the journal International…

New Postdoc at iCourts - Dilek Kurban

1 January 2023

New Postdoc at iCourts - Siri Silvereke

1 January 2023

Russia’s disinformation campaign in the US did not influence political attitudes or voting behavior

The Russian online disinformation effort during the 2016 US presidential election influenced neither attitudes nor voter behavior, new research shows.

Christoffer Ousager

The role of International Law in accommodating Climate Action in the European Union

CMS Researcher Katja Jacobsen publishes the article "Liberal intervention's renewed crisis: responding to Russia's growing

CMS researcher Katja Lindskov Jacobsen has together with Karen Philippa Larsen (DIIS) published the article "Liberal intervention's renewed crisis: responding to Russia's growing influence in Africa" ​​in the journal…

What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters?

An EU-funded project hosted at Roskilde University in collaboration with Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) takes a closer look at the characteristics of attention and proactive response in the context of…

New visitor at iCourts - Francesca Leucci

1 February - 1 April 2023

New visitor at iCourts - Theresa Squatrito

15 January to 15 March 2023

Business and welfare policies

Mikkel Mailand analyses the roles and preferences of Danish companies and employers' organisations in relation to four 'welfare policy' areas - unemployment, (further) education, pensions and family-working life.

The Case of Customary Rules-of- the-Road for Governing the Orbital Highways of Earth

Have you considered Customary International Law as a vessel for global accord? Can the oldest source of international law help us avoid pending catastrophe with satellite collisions leading to environmental degradation…

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.

New visitor at CeBIL - Jorge L Contreras

13 - 20 March 2023

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…

Christoffer Ousager

Christoffer’s project report named: "‘The role of International Law in accommodating Climate Action in the European Union’ is supervised by Associate Prof. Beatriz Martinez Romera. The report will elucidate the legal…

Professor Helle Porsdam i Videnskabsår22 podcast (In Danish)

Professor Helle Porsdam taler i Videnskabsår22 podcast om, hvordan vi i Danmark ikke blot har ret til at blive behandlet værdigt og leve uden tortur, slaveri og diskrimination, men også til at få adgang til videnska…

Rwandan tree carbon stock mapped from above

Breakthrough in climate change mitigation: Researchers at University of Copenhagen have developed accurate nation-wide mapping of the carbon content of trees based on aerial images.