News about Asia

Full Recording: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research webinar

On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted a webinar on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research.

CUDP

CUDP དྷ་སྟོད་ཁོར་ཡུག་གཙང་བཟོའི་ལས་གཞི་ལོ་ངོ་ ༣༠ འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན། རྩོམ་པ་པོ། བསྟན་འཛིན་པ་སངས་ & Trine Brox ༢༠༢༤ ལོའི་ཟླ་༦ཚེས་༥ཉིན་ནི་འཛམ་གླིང་ཁོར་ཡུག་ཉིན་མོ་ཡིན་པ་དང་དེ་ནི་དྷ་སྟོད་ཁོར་ཡུག་གཙང་བཟོའི་ལས་གཞི་(CUDP – Clea…

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc fellowship for 2 exciting projects.

How does compassion for animals develop and take root?

Looking at Tibetans and Indians who provide care for stray animals in northern India, a new anthropological project will explore how people develop a compassion-based ethics through their encounters with animals.

Borderland Field Course 2024

During the past month of July, 28 students from around the world arrived in Chiang Mai for the summer course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research and Engagement in the Global South. Watch the video from the…

Learning from memories and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the future

Researchers Emmanuel Raju, Anne Bach Nielsen and Suchismita Goswami from the Global Health section at the Dept. of Public Health have recently published a paper on PLOS Climate titled "Learning from memories and…

Unravelling Water Scarcity and Pathogen Transmission: PhD Research Stay in Bangladesh

Sara Almeida is a PhD fellow at COPE and her research is part of the DANIDA funded WatScarce project, a multidisciplinary project studying the influence of water scarcity on pathogen transmission in low-income urban…

Student experience in the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods course, Chennai 2024

As part of the Master of Disaster Management programme, this year’s Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods (VRAM) elective was hosted in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in partnership with the Indian Institute of…

Healthy Future exhibition features Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen

COPE member and associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen is featured in a new exhibition inaugurated by the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Bente Merete…

Global health crisis: Vietnam shows new ways to treat diabetes

Med øget fokus på uformel omsorg er det muligt at forbedre diabetespatienters liv markant. Det viser forskningsprojektet VALID, der netop har afsluttet sin første fase i Vietnam og kan få betydning andre steder.

Living and Working through Heatwaves in Urban Chennai- Field Reflections

Globally heat is becoming an urgent disaster that needs to be acted upon. Heatwaves are progressively becoming more severe with increasing frequency.

Fluctuating coffee prices put mental pressure on Vietnamese farmers

Vietnamese coffee farmers are experiencing significantly more stress and psychological difficulties. This is due to highly volatile coffee prices on international markets, according to a new study by development…

Cultural exchange

At VOLT, we have 16 different nationalities and we love to learn from and celebrate all the different cultures - and that usually includes food! This month, we have two major celebrations: the Chinese New Year and…

Development economists to conduct climate-related research in five new projects

The UCPH-DERG research group under the Department of Economics has received funding for five new projects, all centred around climate and environmental issues. Read here about the projects and the expected results.

Atreyee Sen is featured in a recently published ethnographic volume on disappearance

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has authored a chapter in a recently published book on disappearance in different social, cultural and political contexts.

NEEDS Conference 2023

The NEEDS conference aims to explore the status quo and to foster new approaches to disaster research and management.

Borderland Field Course 2023

Watch the video from the 2023 edition of the Field Summer Course Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South.

Critical questions on learning from the COVID-19 disaster in India

New study critically analyses the Government of India’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster.

Dr Vera Skvirskaja at Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia international workshop

Dr Vera Skvirskaja from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies gave a talk at the Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia international workshop at Darwin College, University of Cambridge on Tuesday 23rd May.

Climate Change made heatwave in Asia 30 times more likely

Extreme humid heat in South Asia in April 2023, largely driven by climate change, detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities

Vera Skvirskaja presents a paper at the AFTERLIFES of Urban Muslim Asia workshop

Vera Skvirskaja presents a paper ‘Post-Soviet Central Asia: Migration, People’s Diplomacy and Cultural Heritage of Bukharan Jews’ at the AFTERLIFES of Urban Muslim Asia workshop on the May 23, John Bradfield Room, Darwi…

Call for papers: Risky Business: Perspectives on Governance of South Asian Ecologies

Call for Papers Across South Asia, ecological risk mapping and mitigation is part of the vocabularies of local and national governments. Ecological management by governments is not new to South Asia and has long shaped…

ADI Call for Applications: Funding for Master Students working on Asia

Are you planning to do fieldwork for your Master thesis on or in Asia but lacking resources to carry out the work you are so passionate about doing? Or perhaps you are thinking about doing a PhD and need some financial…

Buddhist Resorts and Guinness Records in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

By Stephen Christopher (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, CCBS) & An Ngoc Hoang (Lead researcher, It’s T Time) For years, the Buddhist resort called Samten Hills was built in relative obscurity, outside of media…