News about The University

Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self-Interest

Assistant Professor Diana-Roxana Galos has published a new article in the British Journal of Sociology. The article examines fairness evaluations of economic returns across fields of study, focusing on how gender and…

Andrew Thompson joins CMP

Andrew joins the OF-CANCER team

The 2024 annual report is online

The 2024 annual report from The Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences is now online. The report presents you with statistics about how many PhD students were enrolled at SUND in 2024, where they are employed,…

PhD Supervision for Co-supervisors at SUND

The main purpose of this voluntary course is to make co-supervision a more efficient and enjoyable process and improve the overall quality of PhD supervision. At this course, you will learn tools to clearly define your…

The Common Thread is shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize

We are very happy to announce that The Common Thread: Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand has been shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists' annual awards - the EAA Book Prize.

New postdoc position available

A new postdoc position in the ERC project “Women in the Nordic Enlightenment (WHENCE)” is now advertised. The position is for 3 years and starts on 1 September 2025. The deadline for applications is 1 June 2025.

CBMR spinout Ousia Pharma raises three-digit million amount to develop their groundbreaking obesity treatment

The spinout builds on a discovery by the Clemmensen Group that NMDA receptor antagonism holds promise for sustained weight loss, which was later published in Nature.

PhD Supervision: next level

Join the seminar for experienced supervisors Are you a busy research supervisor looking for strategies on how to make your supervision even more efficient and fruitful? And would you like to get inspiration from other…

New Head of the Department of Political Science

Signe Pihl-Thingvad will become head of the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She will take over from Nina Græger, who has been head of the department since 2019.

SIC's Annual Activity Report 2024

The LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center is pleased to announce the release of its annual report for 2024. The report reflects SIC’s engagement in education, excellence in research, clinical relevance, and…

Hansen Group secures DKK 15.6 million to improve the diagnosis of steatotic liver disease

Applying omics technology and machine learning to blood samples could pave the way for earlier detection and precise treatment of steatotic liver – a disease that many people don't know they have. This is the goal of th…

USE Center summit lays groundwork for ambitious research plan: “A seminal moment” 

More than 50 education researchers from the USE Center and participating teaching faculty mapped the educational reality in their discipline. The results will inform concrete research projects with and for the teachers…

Call for papers: History education, public memory and difficult pasts

Call for papers for workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, 25-26 September 2025.

40 years of African Studies

Friday 25 April 2025, the Centre of African Studies (CAS) at the University of Copenhagen celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Bodleian Libraries Tech Council workshop

On 1 May 2025, Nanna Thylstrup participates in the Bodleian Libraries Tech Council workshop, Oxford University (closed event).

RESAW 2025 Conference

On 4-6 June 2025, the Data Loss project will participate in the RESAW 2025 Conference at the University of Siegen, Germany. The conference is organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at…

THE WEB. Archives, Sources, Loss, and Use

On 8-9 May 2025, the Data Loss project participates in "THE WEB: Archives, Sources, Loss, and Use" - a workshop on Web Archives hosted by Center for Digital History (Aarhus University), Center for Contemporary History,…

Beyond Cheap and Biased

Associate Professors Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and Jonas Toubøl have published the article titled Beyond Cheap and Biased: Informal Volunteering on Social Media During the COVID-19 Crisis

Singularitäten? Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Andreas Reckwitz

Associate Professor Mikael Carleheden has made a contribution to the book Singularitäten? Im interdisziplinären Gespräch mit Andreas Reckwitz

Zeitenwende – Challenges and Paths to Renewed Order

At the inaugural CHIOS-Körber Roundtable, held on 8 April 2025 at the Körber-Stiftung headquarters in Hamburg, thirty scholars, politicians, officials, and representatives from the armed forces, think tanks, and NGOs me…

External CEBI member Stefanie Stantcheva receives the John Bates Clark medal

The John Bates Clark medal is one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated AEA awards.

Sightseeing with BARC

BARC explored the historic sites of the University of Copenhagen.

Open call for participants

Ethnographic drawing makes it possible to translate ideas to lines, making them visually sharable in a way that might be more accessible than words. More than that, however, drawing entails the possibility of exploring…

The effect of the Green Tripartite to be analysed

A new research project will investigate the economic, environmental and climate effects of the ‘Agreement on a Green Denmark’. The project is led by Peter Birch Sørensen, Professor at the Department of Economics.