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NEEDS 2022

2022.12.06

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…

Obituary

2022.11.30

Obituary: Siri Tellier (2 April 1946 – 19 October 2022)

Global health and the Section of Global Health at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen has lost an inspiring scholar and infatigable spokeswoman for health and human rights.

New research

2022.11.29

Improving the efforts to support families in humanitarian crises

New research project sets out to evaluate the Nurturing Families intervention - a scalable, multi-sectoral, component-based intervention for families experiencing multiple difficulties.

2022.11.29

Nyt Blog Post: Kinesisk science fiction

Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, adjunkt i Kinastudier på Københavns Universitet, stiller i dette blogindlæg skarpt på science fiction i Kina.

2022.11.29

Nai Lee Kalema, visiting researcher on the CERTIZEN project

Nai Lee Kalema is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen's Centre for African Studies (CAS) for the CERTIZENS project. Nai is a third-year PhD candidate in Innovation and Public Policy at the UCL…

2022.11.25

New ThinkChina Lecture: Researching urban-digital life in/on/from China

Dr Carwyn Morris from Leiden University will discuss researching urban-digital life in contemporary China.

2022.11.22

New ThinkChina Video: The Agricultural-Migration Nexus in China

New ThinkChina Video Lena Kaufmann, PhD, University of Zurich gives an insight in to the Agriculture-Migration Nexus in China: A Socio-Technical Perspective on Land Use.

2022.11.22

Land healing, farming and spiritual cleansing in Southern Africa

In their recent work, Marie Curie Fellow, Hans Olsson, and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach ask what the relationship between religion, healing and farming in Southern Africa could look like? Discussing Christian…

Podcast

2022.11.21

New podcast about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar

A new podcast series from the University of Copenhagen about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar.

Research

2022.11.18

Pushing the Boundaries in Disaster Studies: Reflections from the NEEDS 2022 PhD Workshop

Integrated in this year's Northern European Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) Conference in Copenhagen, there was a two-day PhD Workshop which took place between October 31 and November 1.

2022.11.17

Climate reparations can give a Denmark comeback as an aid beacon

Why is Denmark paying development aid? To answer this question Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written an article about Denmark's proposal to pay climate reparations to the Global South. He explains that it is…

2022.11.14

Ny op-ed: Ro på – atomkrigen er nok ikke lige om hjørnet

Kronik af professor emeritus Bertel Heurlin: Putin truer med atomkrig. Kina truer med krig, hvis Taiwan erklærer sig uafhængig. Det kan føre til atomkrig, men den kommer nok alligevel ikke. Medmindre ...

2022.11.08

Ny ThinkChina Analysis: Nancy Pelosi’s besøg ryster forhold mellem USA og Kina

Camilla T. N. Sørensen analyserer i denne udgivelse Nancy Pelosi’s besøg til Taiwan i august.

2022.11.04

New ThinkChina Policy Brief: Xi Jinping’s Moment of Glory - Winner Takes All

ThinkChina Policy Brief by professor emeritus Jørgen Delman, about the 20th party congress and the new members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo.

2022.11.01

New Blog Post: What We Have Learned From the 20th Party Congress

What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress? ThinkChina sat down with two China experts from UCPH to find out.

2022.10.26

New ThinkChina Video: The New Normal in the Taiwan Strait

In this talk, Camilla T. N. Sørensen will give an assessment of the security situation and the evolving military balance in the Taiwan Strait and discuss how to avoid a military conflict in the Taiwan.

Climate Change

2022.10.26

New collaboration between the University College Copenhagen and University of Belize

COPE researcher Rico Kongsager from the University College Copenhagen just returned from Belize, where he, together with his colleague Maren Egedorf, are in the initial phase of establishing a collaboration with the…

Climate Change

2022.10.20

High temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely

Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the summer of 2022

2022.10.14

New ThinkChina Podcast: the 20th Party Congress

Coordinator of ThinkChina, Casper Wichmann interviews Jørgen Delman, professor emeritus of China Studies, University of Copenhagen, about the forthcoming 20th Party Congress.

Antibiotics

2022.10.13

Myths about antibiotics are a much bigger problem than you think

A recent study by the University of Copenhagen is used to develop new communication materials informing patients and health care professionals about the correct use of antibiotics.