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Third PhD student is formally enrolled

Stephen Yao has begun the 4 year PhD program at the University of Ghana. After his first year of mandatory courses Stephen will frame his work within the work package C (GIS). Welcome!

UAV/Drone-based Lidar data collection in Accra

UAV-based Lidar data collection has taken place as planned in three selected areas for a period of 10 days following extensive preparations involving equipment, training, location scouting and legal aspects. The joint…

A concussion can cost your job - especially for the young and well educated

According to a large new study a seemingly harmless concussion can cause the loss of a job - especially for patients who are in their thirties and for those with a higher education.

Partner meeting in Copenhagen

Project coordination and plans for the August and December field work was in focus for the meetings during a productive week. All project participants including the PhD students took part in the discussions. Additional…

The civics of urban greening: topics, tendencies and tensions from the frontlines of sustainable transition

As part of a new special issue, 12 articles on research from Department of Sociology have just been published in the online magazine ‘Discover Society.'

Comparing twins - cultural capital matters, but how it works could surprise you

As part of a new special issue, 12 articles on research from Department of Sociology have just been published in the online magazine ‘Discover Society.'

Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise their Employment?

A new study by Claus Thustrup Kreiner, together with Daniel Reck from LSE and Peer Ebbesen Skov from Auckland University of Technology, measures the impact of youth minimum wages on youth employment.

Risk and unnaturalness cannot justify EU’s strict policy on GMO

The EU’s policy on GMO is extremely strict and prevents new GMO crops from being authorized. The policy is based on arguments about the risk and unnaturalness of GMO plants – but these arguments cannot justify the…

Earmarked Paternity Leave and the Relative Income within Couples

Reducing gender inequality has become a central motivation for labor market and child-care policy reforms.

Financial Trouble from Generation to Generation

Financial trouble has big consequences for individual welfare and for the design of debt relief policies and bankrupcy laws. However, little is known about why some people end up in financial trouble while others do not…

Major EU grant for research on collective identity

The ERC has awarded Professor Dan Zahavi from University of Copenhagen an Advanced Grant of €2.4 million for the research project “Who are we”, which will examine what it means to feel, think and act as a group - as a…

Two new spatial datasets established

A topologically corrected transport network map of the Accra agglomeration area has been established based on OpenStreetMap data using the OMX package and a detailed, spatial population model covering the Accra…

The importance of social relations in healthy aging

Sociologist and demographer Lisbeth Loft examines the role of social environment factors and genetic predispositions in healthy aging.

New CLIMACCESS report on regional climate change

The report details the expected influence of climate change on the future precipitation pattern in the Accra region of Ghana. While flooding in Accra is caused by many factors including urban development practices, the…

In VR boys learn best when the teacher is a drone – girls learn better from virtual Marie

The teacher is just as important in a virtual learning environment as in a normal classroom, but a new study shows that boys and girls differ greatly in terms of how they learn best.

Danish economist behind one of 2018’s major research results

Your lifestyle is formed to a great extent by the health and disease among your relatives, and this is important knowledge in the economic research, states the English-speaking business-news media Quartz.

Wage transparency works

New research shows that wage transparancy reduces gender pay gap by 7%.

IRL rich people don't live that much longer than the poor

New research results challenge previous findings of huge differences in life expectancy between the rich and those at the bottom of the income scale.

A Childhood in the Lowest Stratum of Society Takes Its Physical Toll Later in Life

Children of unskilled workers show lower physical function in midlife than children of academics. The most physically challenging tests show the greatest difference, new research from the Center for Healthy Aging and th…

CLIMACCESS workshop at CSIR-INSTI

Undertaking the role of a partner in an internationally funded research and capacity building project is a relatively new and promising role for CSIR-INSTI. The aim of the workshop was to increase the general knowledge…

Psychologists define 'the dark core of personality'

As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, traits as egoism, machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadisme share a common ‘dark core’. So, if you have one of these tendencies, you…

Doubts and dialogue may alter public perceptions of science

Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings in which experts share their thoughts and feelings with each other and the public. This…

CLIMACCESS presentation at Open-Day (CSIR-INSTI)

The overall objectives, work packages and methodologies of the project was successfully presented to participants at the annual Open-Day event at CSIR-INSTI.

Two PhD students are enrolled

Two of the expected three students have been enrolled for the 4 year PhD program at the University of Ghana. The project partners welcome Abubakari Abdallah who will focus primarily on work package A and Prince Gyekye…