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When Crisis Strikes, Denmark’s Volunteers Step Forward

A portion of the population is ready to take action when crisis hits and others need help. According to researchers from the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, these individuals make up a civilian…

Workshop on free movement in West Africa brings scholars to Accra

MOBILE and the Centre for Migration Studies convene international workshop in Ghana.

Pregnancy changes women’s responses to infants

Pregnant women react more positively than non‑pregnant women when exposed to audio recordings, videos, and images of infants. This suggests that pregnancy mentally prepares women to process infant signals, according to …

Volunteering trajectories across crises

With this study published in Social Forces, Lærke Høgenhaven, Louis Møgelmose, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, and Jonas Toubøl document substantial changes in the composition of civil society’s volunteer population from before t…

New Project: Pastoral Resilience and Sense of Place in Uganda (PreSense)

Marianne Mosebo introduces a new project funded by the Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC).

VELUX FOUNDATION funds new national sustainable initiative

A new national initiative, JURiB – Developing Competence in Law for Sustainability, unites Denmark’s legal research and educational environments with a shared mission: building a more sustainable society.

Differentiated VAT: When Good Intentions Collide

The desire to help financially pressured households is a core political task. However, good intentions collide with other familiar good intentions, creating a series of paradoxes.

New Permanent Visiting Professor - Luuk van der Baaren

Luuk van der Baaren joins MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professor.

Different mechanisms are responsible for underconfidence

As humans, we can underestimate ourselves, even when we perform just as well as others. Women and people with anxiety in particular are known to doubt their own choices – and this is due to two different mechanisms,…

New Visiting Researcher at CeBIL - Tatiana Aranovich

13 April - 8 May 2026

Danish municipalities and foreign policy – what can and can't they do?

As a rule, municipalities can't say much about foreign policy. But there are exceptions to that rule. A new research article from the Faculty of Law looks at where the line is drawn for municipalities when it comes to…

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Martin Herje

26 February - 12 March 2026

Social partners’ influence on job quality in care in Denmark and the Netherlands

There are persistent challenges with job quality within child- and eldercare in Denmark and the Netherlands, but improvements can also be observed. The social partners have a decisive influence on these matters, althoug…

CIIR is a partner of COPY.AI

CIIR is proud to be a partner of the Nordic-Baltic research project “COPY.AI”, funded by NordForsk’s program on Responsible Use of AI.

Katja Lindskov Jacobsen appointed chair of new External Expert Panel established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The External Expert Panel will contribute to the professional quality assurance of major bilateral grants and support the government's development policy priorities through strategic advice.

Romeo Porsing

Romeo Porsing's project examines Danish and EU law governing the authorisation, establishment, and operation of nuclear test facilities, research facilities, and commercial operations.

New booking process for procedure rooms

From now on, all bookings of procedure rooms must be made via the UCPH Rooms booking system in Microsoft Outlook or UCPH webmail.

PlastiCITIES: New project will research changing waste work in urban Kenya

How are efforts to tackle plastic pollution changing the lives of those who make a living from waste in Kenya? Researchers at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen, in partnership with researcher…

New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Marianna Hu

Marianna Hu is visiting MOBILE from 9 February to 8 April 2026.

13th EELF Conference 2026 - Call for Abstracts

13th European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) Conference from 26–28 August 2026 – Call for Abstracts, submissions due by 10 April 2026.

Banal but brutal: Career anxiety is a driving force behind authoritarianism

Career pressure – not ideology – causes military officers to protect or overthrow dictators. New research from the Department of Political Science shows that ambition and anxiety can transform ‘ordinary men’ into the…

Banal but brutal: Career anxiety is a driving force behind authoritarianism

Career pressure – not ideology – causes military officers to protect or overthrow dictators. New research from the Department of Political Science shows that ambition and anxiety can transform ‘ordinary men’ into the…

From data collection to innovation: Student perspectives on health challenges in Kibera

15 students from the University of Copenhagen participated in the Study and Innovation Programme in Kenya, and came up with innovative solutions for health challenges in Africa's largest informal settlement.

The Economic Foundations of Social Identity and Political Fragmentation

Amalie Sofie Jensen and her coauthors receive a Semper Ardens: Accelerate grant from the Carlsberg Foundation of DKK 6.1m to study “The Economic Foundations of Social Identity and Political Fragmentation”.