News about Education

Reorganizing the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

On November 14th, 2024, the department's management group decided to reorganize the department, so that from January 1, 2025, IVH will be organized with four new sections.

New SODAS professional training courses

You can now sign up for two new SODAS professional training courses taking place in early 2025

Kasper Haldrup Björnsson

Ph.D., Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Correcting misperceptions about ethno-racial discrimination

Prof Dr. Merlin Schaeffer has published an article which tackles the issues of minority ethnic groups in Denmark.

Alfredo Jauregui joins CMP

Alfredo joins the EPITOPE team

Odense: Multicomponent drugs: co-crystals, co-amorphous & deep eutectic systems

The meeting hosted by prof. Annette Bauer-BrandlDrug Delivery & Research Group, Dept. of Physics Chemistry and Pharmacy, is meant to introduce differences and similarities, as well as general advantages and disadvantage…

Dictionary of embodied cognition: We know it works, but we lack the language

Many teachers already use embodied cognition approaches in their teaching, but it is not easy to pin point what exactly it consists of - and why it works. That SENSES network wants to change that.

Spatial overlap: trade-offs in refugees' residential choices

Prof Dr. Merlin Schaeffer has published an article researching the some of the reasons as to why refugees tend to live in areas of high unemployment.

The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno-racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?

Prof Dr. Merlin Scheaffer has made a contribution to the International Society of Political Psychology with his article along with Judith Kas about the experiences of minority ethnic groups.

What causes inequality in education?

Despite an expanding education sector, educational inequality is increasing in Denmark. Researchers will now investigate the mechanisms behind this development.

New article: ”EthNote gives qualitative research a new format”

Recently TechSavvy Media published an article about the digital fieldnote app Ethnote, co-founded by DISTRACT researcher Emilie Munch Gregersen and DISTRACT coordinator Karoline Husbond Andersen. The article is written…

Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance

In a new article in Regulation & Governance Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Ida Marie N. Jensen analyses whether polycentric governance is able to promote the development of fair green transition.

Borderland Field Course 2024

During the past month of July, 28 students from around the world arrived in Chiang Mai for the summer course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research and Engagement in the Global South. Watch the video from the…

Change for PhD supervision: rules and regulations

No need to complete it more than once until end of 2027 The Deanery has decided that the requirement for principal PhD supervisors to complete the online course PhD supervision: rules and regulations every fifth year…

High school students promoted to real researchers

Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects — non-professionals can now conduct actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. Together with Danish high schools, the…

Noah Ghebremichael joins CMP

Noah joins the EPITOPE team

“I want to ensure that researchers have access to the best cellular models”

Zehra Abay-Nørgaard is a translational neuroscientist developing human stem cell models for disease modelling and drug discovery.

Study finds racism—and resistance to it—beneath the surface in high school physics

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen wanted to understand how high school students interacted with a physics learning game. However, the observations contained so many examples of problematic behavior that it…

Five new ISIM BRIDGE Fellows 2024-2026

We are proud to announce that 5 fellows out of 14 are from Department of Immunology and Microbiology. Here you can read more about the Bridge Fellows, including their names, background, affiliations, project description…

Dates for the next Nordic POP workshop on mucus are set!

We now have dates for the traditional mucus workshop, a training event co-organized by The UiT Arctic University of Norway and and UiO The university of Oslo. The event is set as a lunch-to-lunch event and will take…

Danish Open Access Week 2024

In week 43, the national Open Access Week will be held with a series of free webinars. Danish Open Access Week 2024 | Oct 21 - Oct 25 The Danish Network for Open Access is now presenting the third Danish Open Access…

New international network to train researchers in hologenomics

Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics will soon host two PhD students as part of a new multidisciplinary training network across Europe focused on the field of hologenomics.

EMBO workshop - Image Integrity (online)

Join this generic course that focus on everyday aspects of responsible research practices for designing experiments and acquiring and processing data and images. It is delivered by EMBO Solutions GmbH and is designed to…

SAVE THE DATE for 5th Nordic RWE and AI conference in Helsinki 28-29.1.2025

SAVE THE DATE: The University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi University will organize the 5thNordic RWE and AI conference in Helsinki 28-29.1.2025 in collaboration with relevant stakeholders in the region.