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Umami is key to make plant-based Christmas dinner taste like Christmas

How do you combine plant-based foods to bring out the flavours of Christmas? A food engineer and ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen has experimented in Gastro Science Lab. Boosting of umami taste is key.

Human empathy makes us better at understanding animal sounds

Those who do well on human empathy tests are also measurably better at decoding the emotional sounds of animals, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. Other aspects, such as age and work related to…

Policies' implications on labor supply and inequality within families

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

Climatising Security Policy

How have the political discourses about climate change influenced security policies? Climate change sets a moving agenda for international and national security actors, providing them both with manifold trials but also…

New CMS Report: Climatising Security Policy

How have the political discourses about climate change influenced security policies? New CMS report investigates the emerging international landscape on ‘climatising’ security policies that Denmark must navigate.

Philosopher: Mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations

Mindfulness is one of the most widespread forms of therapy for people suffering from stress, and many report that they benefit greatly from it. However, the philosophical assumptions on which mindfulness is based are…

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.

Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. UCPH researchers have teamed up with Danish company…

Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. UCPH researchers have teamed up with Danish company…

Nordic Relief Packages and Non-standard Workers: Towards Expanded Universalism and Institutional Inequalities

In a new article in the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe have analysed how the Nordic countries have reacted to the Corona crisis, which revealed gaps in the Nordic countries' social…

Student project grants 2022/2023

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The Power of Morality in Movements

Associate Professor Jonas Toubøl has edited the open access anthology ‘The Power of Morality in Movements – Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy' in collaboration with Anders Sevelsted from…

New visitor at iCourts - Raphael Oidtmann

Visiting researcher in 2023

The wealthier we become, the fewer homemade meals we eat

The wealthier we are, the less time we spend cooking and washing up. This is demonstrated by a global megatrend, now investigated by a researcher at the University of Copenhagen. The trend applies to Danes as well, who…

This year's 'invisible hand': "Capturing the attention of a student requires relevance and motivation"

The teaching prize "The Invisible Hand" is awarded each year to a lecturer at the Department of Economics who has demonstrated excellent teaching skills. This year the award goes to associate Professor Anders…

Who are the people behind human trafficking?

With support from the EU, a new anthropological project will paint a more accurate picture of human traffickers through fieldwork in Romania and Portugal.

Do Workers Speak Up When Feeling Job Insecure? Examining Workers’ Response to Precarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In a new article Christian Lyhne Ibsen et al. examines whether workers respond to job insecurity with voice, and assess the role of unions, managers, and employment arrangements in this relationship

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…

Politologist will bridge sciences to solve humanitarian crises

How can new technologies and design methods address global humanitarian crisis? This is the key question for Jonathan Austin, assistant professor at the Department of Political Science.

A new land reform can address climate challenges facing the agricultural sector, researchers argue

Rewetting low-lying organic soils that are currently under agricultural cultivation has a significant effect on greenhouse gas emissions, but can be a difficult, time-consuming process.

Postdoctoral researcher position working on two new survey projects on welfare and the future of work

The Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) invites applications for a fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position (3 years and 3 months) starting on 1 March 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Being granted a fellowship for displaced Ukrainian scholars, Iryna Ignatenko will spend a year at the Department of Anthropology looking into ‘Danish happiness’.

Learning how to grow super mushrooms, with termites as teachers

Termites have cultivated and eaten them for 30 million years. This incredible mushroom has more protein than chicken, soy and corn, but has yet to be grown by humans. By imitating termites, scientists at the University…

Mobilization and collective bargaining on Facebook

In a new article Nana Wesley Hansen and Mark Friis Hau analyze how trade unions and their grass roots use Facebook and what consequences this has for the understanding of collective bargaining.