UCPH Global - selected news

2023.03.30

Welcome to our new ToRS Post-doctoral Researcher

Meina Jia Sandal is interested in research topics on food and morality, intergenerational relationships, transnationalism and globalization related to China.

2023.03.30

Ester Boserup Prize Lecture

Read more about the event. Special Issue: Covid–19 and Civil Societies in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Edited by Peter Birkelund Andersen, Amit Prakash and Meghna Guhathakurta. NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and…

2023.03.23

School of Global Health Summer School

University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health offers popular cross-disciplinary summer courses in global health.

2023.03.23

2023 Spring Call for ADI Funding

ADI invites researchers employed at the University of Copenhagen to submit applications for financial support up for projects and activities with a broad research focus on Asia.

Career Portal at the Global Development Network

2023.03.20

Career Portal at the Global Development Network

Do you want to find your next Student Assistant Job, or maybe your future Internship?

New Director

2023.03.17

Lena Skovgaard Andersen is the new Director of University of Copenhagen’s School of Global Health

Professor Flemming Konradsen has passed the baton to Assistant Professor Lena Skovgaard Andersen when the board of the School of Global Health unanimously elected her as the new director of the School of Global Health.

2023.03.16

Welcome to our new ADI Coordinator

We are very pleased to welcome Nicol Savinetti as the new ADI Coordinator.

COVID-19

2023.03.07

Do rules at folk high schools make sense for young people - What we learned from COVID-19

In June 2020, a study investigated staff and student reactions to folk high schools reopening under new COVID-19 guidelines.

new podcast

2023.02.27

Nigeria’s choice: a light in the darkness of apathy

On the recent episode of the Globalnyt podcast Højtryk, former director of CAS, Niels Kastfelt, discusses Nigerian politics and the upcoming elections.

Review

2023.02.22

Book Review: Healing and Power in Ghana

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor and Director of CAS, recently reviewed Paul Glen Grant´s new book, called Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity.

Climate Change

2023.02.13

Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance

About a year ago, our Cities in Global Climate Governance early career researchers’ (ECR) group took up a project to begin reviewing all of the contemporary global urban climate governance literature.

Disaster risk

2023.02.08

COPE researchers at the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality

Last month, COPE researchers Maansi Parpiani and Suchismita Goswami participated in the International Roundtable on Urban Risk and Informality organized by the Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies and the Tata…

Global health research

2023.02.01

New global health research projects about climate change and health in 2023

Danida Fellowship Center has granted the Global Health Section at the University of Copenhagen 30 million DKK for three new climate change and health related research projects in Tanzania, Kenya, and Bangladesh.

NEEDS 2022

2023.01.24

Disasters, Climate Change and Law: Reflections from the NEEDS conference and COPE stay

As someone who is interested in the intersection between law and disasters – it is always exciting to find an event that caters to both. This made the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies…

2023.01.12

Piss off: Salva Kiir and South Sudan

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Genstart, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the leader who became president of South Sudan.

New research

2023.01.09

What characterises emergency response to slowly developing crises and disasters?

An EU-funded project hosted at Roskilde University in collaboration with Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) takes a closer look at the characteristics of attention and proactive response in the context of…

COVID-19

2022.12.07

Risk and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

The study identified five key themes in the experiences of people living with chronic illnesses during the pandemic: wellbeing, normality, healthcare access, coping resources, and meaningfulness.

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.