UCPH Global - selected news

2022.09.13

Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience

On August 22, 2022, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) invited Anne Bach Nielsen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and Nina Blom Andersen, reader at University College Copenhagen…

Summer courses

2022.09.13

Global health summer courses: 150 students are ready to tackle future global health challenges

Over three weeks, 150 students from more than 20 different countries have participated in School of Global Health's summer courses

Air Quality

2022.09.07

Not all kinds of lockdown measures for COVID-19 subsequently improved air quality

A newly published study by Jiawei Zhang and his colleagues, surprisingly showed that not all kinds of lockdown measures for COVID-19 subsequently improved air quality.

Appointment

2022.09.02

Katherine Richardson receives honorary doctorate

For her years in research and her scientific contributions, Professor and Leader of Sustainability Science Centre, Katherine Richardson receives an honorary doctorate at the Arctic University of Norway.

Affiliate Professor

2022.09.02

George Bob-Milliar appointed Affiliate Professor in African Studies

George Bob-Milliar of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana is appointed new Affiliate Professor in African Studies, effective 1 September 2022.

2022.09.01

Green transition called off: DR Congo’s new way to fight poverty and create development

Associate Professor Stig Jensen at the Centre of African Studies has written a three-part article series for GlobalNyt highlighting some of the many paradoxes associated with DR Congo's decision to Congo put 30 oil and…

2022.08.16

Russia and the West hunt hearts and minds in Africa

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written a two-part article for GlobalNyt analysing Sergei Lavrov and Emmanuel Macron's tours in Africa.

2022.08.16

Call for abstracts: Climate Change Related Mobility in the Nordic Region

The second workshop of the Nordic Network on Climate-Related Displacement and Mobility will take place on 8-9 December 2022 hosted at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund Sweden. Abstracts are due 20 September. Read…

2022.08.16

Remembering former CAS student, Gavin David Shepherd

CAS has been greatly saddened by news of the recent tragic loss of our former MA graduate, Gavin ‘Gavster’ David Shepherd. Gavin suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on 19 July while hillwalking in Scotland with his sister…

2022.08.09

CAS students collaborate with GlobalNyt on course-based articles

Globalnyt has published a two-part article series with two CAS students, supported by the Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

HIV

2022.07.13

Inadequate access to harm reduction services may cause higher HIV prevalence among women who use drugs in Tanzania

People who use drugs are more affected by HIV compared to the general population in Tanzania. In the last few years, the prevalence of HIV among people who use drugs has decreased but women who use drugs are…

Innovation in global health

2022.07.12

Updated educational resources about innovation in global health

Newly updated educational resources about innovation in global health. Freely available to anyone interested.

2022.06.24

2022 Autumn Call for ADI Funding

The Asian Dynamics Initiative invites researchers employed at the University of Copenhagen to submit proposals for financial support for projects and activities with research focus on Asia.

Case challenge

2022.06.17

Student innovations to improve the health of indigenous peoples

A team from University of Copenhagen participated in the Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition and developed a health action plan to improve the health of indigenous peoples.

2022.06.10

PRIVACY Postdoctoral researchers invited to teach at the Center of African Studies (CAS) methods course with a focus on digital

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of the Center of African Studies, invited the two Privacy Scholars, Natacha Klein Käfer and Natália da Silva Perez, with a scholarly profile on Digital Humanities to…

2022.06.09

What does the EU want with Africa?

Associate Professor Stig Jensen, CAS, is invited to participate in a panel by the Democracy in Europe Information Society on the bilateral relationship between the two unions. The panel will address the following…

2022.06.02

PhD Scholarship at the Faculty of Theology including Centre of African Studies

Two PhD scholarships (three-year) will be available from 1 December 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Climate Change

2022.06.01

Climate Change made devastating early heat in India and Pakistan 30 times more likely

Since the beginning of March, India and Pakistan and large parts of South Asia experienced prolonged heat, that at the time of writing, May 2022, still hasn’t subsided.

Launch event

2022.05.25

The crisis of unintended pregnancies and the shortcomings of modern contraception

United Nation Population Fund’s (UNFPA) State of World Population Report 2022 confirms an alarming fact: almost half of all pregnancies - a total of 121 million pregnancies each year - are unintended.

2022.05.19

Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, contributes to the newly published Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies with a chapter on ‘Mission and the Anthropology of Christianity: Africanist Perspectives’.…