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Sociologists to investigate experiences with climate-friendly food

Sociologists will look into experiences with climate-friendly food and social norms around the meal. The new research project is a collaboration between Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, and Denmark’s…

Joint fieldwork and project meetings in Accra

Manja teamed up with the South Partners for two weeks of extensive surveying, mapping and interviews in the four settlement areas. Jytte and Lasse joined and also participated in final design and planning of the main…

Claus Thustrup Kreiner is the new Area Director of Public Economics in the CESifo network.

He will be organizing the next Public Economics conference in Münich on 19-21 March 2020

Inequalities at birth persist into the next generation

Inequalities at birth of one generation persist into inequality among the offspring in the next generation: differences in birth weight of parents are associated with differences in school performance of their children.

CLIMACCESS presentation at Geomatic and Geospatial Technology

Preliminary results concerning the suitability of methods for urban spatial mapping and for analyzing how flooding of individual roads may impact daily commuting from the fringe areas of Accra areas was presented at the…

Chinese activists protest the use of traditional treatments - they want medical science

In China, traditional Chinese medicine has the same status in the health system as modern medical science. This has led thousands of science activists to protest that the state neglects its duty to treat its citizens…

Chinese activists protest the use of traditional treatments - they want medical science

In China, traditional Chinese medicine has the same status in the health system as modern medical science. This has led thousands of science activists to protest that the state neglects its duty to treat its citizens…

Claire Maxwell will be co-editing an international journal on education

'The International Studies in Sociology of Education' analyses connections across local, national, regional, and international contexts in the study of sociology of education.

Researchers to map the social mobility of siblings

The European Research Council has awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant worth DKK 11 million, to sociologist Kristian Karlson for an ambitious research project designed to identify areas in which there is the…

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 labour 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.