UCPH Global - selected news

Interview

2022.10.07

Interview with Suchismita Goswami, PhD student at COPE

Meet COPE PhD student, Suchismita Goswami. She is currently working on the project ‘Disaster Risk Creation and Urban Resettlement Processes’, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Climate Change

2022.10.06

Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan

From mid-June until the end of August 2022, large parts of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoonal rainfall, leading to large parts of the country being flooded.

Mexico

2022.10.03

Mexicans should consume less ultra-processed products – especially pregnant women

Ultra-processed products negatively impact Mexican pregnant women, and Mexico could learn a great deal from Denmark when it comes to living a healthier life, says Adriana Granich, a Mexican epidemiologist and medical…

2022.09.27

New Op-ed: Kina og USA's globale sikkherhedsinitiativ: hvem vinder?

Kronik af professor emeritus Bertel Heurlin omhandlende Kina og USA's aktuelle, globale sikkerhedsinitiativer.

2022.09.20

New ThinkChina Analysis: Development, Debt, and Distress

What can the situation in Sri Lanka tell us about China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI)? Read PhD student Tabita Rosendahl's analysis on the topic in this ThinkChina Analysis.

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.

2022.09.06

New ThinkChina Analysis: Implementation Variations Under Authoritarianism

Yi Ma and Chunrong Liu investigate provincial differences in policy reformulation in China.

Film Festival

2022.09.05

Do you want to organise Global Health Film Days 2023?

Write us now to become a UCPH student organiser for Global Health Film Days 2023.

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…

2022.08.26

New Blogpost: Laurits Andersen - The Long Farewell 1912-1928

The Danish entrepreneur Laurits Andersen (1849-1928) lived most of his life in China, where he became one of the leading figures in the establishment of the country’s modern tobacco industry. This is the fourth and last…

2022.08.19

Ny ekstern podcast: voksende nationalisme i den kinesiske middelklasse

Casper Wichmann er gæst hos P1 Orientering og diskuterer en ny undersøgelse der tyder på en voksende nationalisme i den kinesiske middelklasse. Lyt til programmet her.

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…

2022.08.12

New Blogpost: Laurits Andersen - Making BAT Great 1903-1911

The Danish entrepreneur Laurits Andersen (1849-1928) lived most of his life in China, where he became one of the leading figures in the establishment of the country’s modern tobacco industry. This blogpost series will…

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.