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Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science, ERC RITUAL DETERRENCE

Does exploring the role of ritual action in making deterrence effective in international security politics between NATO and the Warsaw Pact sound interesting to you?

CIIR hosted the 37th Nordic Conference on Law and IT in 2022

Humans, data and law: tectonic plates in motion.

Interdisciplinary Opportunities for Biometric Researchers

iCourts postdoctoral researcher Karen McGregor Richmond has been appointed as Copenhagen University lead representative to the Biometrics Institute, opening up opportunities for three more colleagues to join this vibran…

Presentation of Ethnoplatform at Als Research consultancy

On Wednesday January 18th, PhD student Sofie Læbo Astrupgaard and Assistant Professor Kristoffer Albris gave an invited guest talk at the consultancy company Als Research, based in central Copenhagen. While Als Research…

Professor Henrik Hansen appointed new Head of UPCH Department of Economics

Professor Henrik Hansen has been appointed as the new Head of UPCH Department of Economics from 1 March 2023. Professor Hansen has played a key role in UCPH-DERG and in the development and management of the MSc in Globa…

Social dialogue in welfare services

A new report takes a closer look at key welfare service sectors, long-time care and early childhood education and care in seven EU countries

Sustainability: A dirty game

Sustainability is a concept that can be hard to understand and even harder to implement. What if you could play your part, by quite literally playing a boardgame? A team of five young researchers from four European…

New visitor at iCourts - Marcus Schnetter

1 - 28 February 2023

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…

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…