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New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Vladislava Stoyanova

Vladislava Stoyanova will be visiting MOBILE from February to April 2024.

South Africa takes Israel to Court

Lately, there has been significant media coverage in connection with South Africa's court case against Israel before the International Court of Justice. Associate Professor Stig Jensen has been in the media with analysi…

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Federico Bonito

19 August - 19 November 2024

Policy Briefs

Implications of flooding for intra-urban mobility

Early Career Researcher Network

The VOLT Early Career Researcher Network meets every second Friday of the month and is a space for anyone ranging from MSc candidate to Postdoc (who work with research related to volatiles) to bring questions, concerns,…

New defence agreement secures the financing of the Centre for Military Studies

The first partial agreement under the defence agreement for 2024-2033 includes a continuation of the cooperation between the parties to the defence agreement and the University of Copenhagen about the Centre for Militar…

New defence agreement secures the financing of the Centre for Military Studies

The first partial agreement under the defence agreement for 2024-2033 includes a continuation of the cooperation between the parties to the defence agreement and the University of Copenhagen about the Centre for Militar…

Sebastian Gjessing

The regulatory framework for shipping decarbonisation at the international and EU levels

Christian Tversted

The EU ETS - An analysis of the draft amendment of the EU 2019/1122 registry regulation proposal in art 81 on introducing registry fee on behalf on the Commission

EU to support psychedelic therapy for patients with progressive incurable disease

A new research project is investigating whether the psychedelic drug psilocybin can be used for the psychological treatment of people with incurable illness. Now the EU will support the project with €6.5 million.

Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia

Professor Margaretha Järvinen has published the article 'Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia' in Current Sociology in collaboration Nanna Mik-Meyer (CBS). Deploying the perspective of ‘relational…

Johan Nikolaj Lausen

Regime Interactions in Marine Conservation Beyond National Jurisdiction

Johan Nikolaj Lausen

Regime Interactions in Marine Conservation Beyond National Jurisdiction

Signe Weibye Berg and Kristine Mandrup

Stealing Wind: How to regulate shared off-shore wind resources

William Pickering

The Efficacy of REDD+ as a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy and its Effect on Indigenous Peoples

Fabio Gigone awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Our colleague Fabio Gigone received a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship. We have interviewed him about his new project. Fabio Gigone You recently successfully defended your PhD at the Centre fo…

Karen Lauterbach Appointed to Editorial Board

Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach has been appointed to the advisory editorial board for the Journal of Modern African Studies published by Cambridge University Press. The journal offers a survey of…

New study: Pig welfare outweighs climate concerns for consumers

Consumers would rather pay more for higher-welfare pork than for pork with a reduced climate footprint. Politicians and the pork industry can learn from the result, according to the researchers behind the University of…

Uncovering natures lessons in plant-root microbiome co-evolution

Associate Professor Christopher Barnes has secured a Villum Young Investigator grant for his ambitious research project aimed at unravelling the mysteries of the co-evolution between plants and their root microbiomes. A…

Can DNA revelations change your views on race?

Does it influence people's views on race when they learn about their own DNA roots? Not much, according to a new research project from the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau publishes new article in Journal of Cyber Policy

Researcher at CMS, Tobias Liebetrau, has co-authored a newly published article in the Journal of Cyber Policy entitled: “Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production: towards a reflexive practice”.

Alessandro Moretti presents at autumn conferences

CGC-researcher, Alessandro Moretti, presented his work on online sex trafficking at conferences during the autumn semester.

New Guest Researcher at CECS - Serena Fabbozzo

Serena Fabbozzo is a civil and administrative lawyer and a PhD candidate at the University of Turin (Italy), visiting the Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies from January 2024, for six months.

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.