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Mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies

This new podcast series will take you through the emergence and development of approaches to mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings.

Prize papers for 2022 announced

Each year, the university rewards the best prize theses with gold or silver medals. The prize paper for 2022 has been announced at the Annual Commemoration on 12th of November 2021.

The risk of developing kidney disease among type 1 diabetes patients in Rwanda

A new study from the University of Copenhagen, Rwanda Diabetes Association and the World Diabetes Foundation gives a rare look into people living with type 1 diabetes and the subsequent risk of developing kidney disease…

Africans have good reason to be sceptical of Western vaccines

CAS guest researcher, Primus Tazanau has written an article in Information about COVID-19 Vaccine, Christian Right End-time Prophecy, and Conspiracy Theory. Tazanau explains that in addition to the lack of access to…

Climate Change, resilience and new pandemics in the Artic

Climate change is also affecting the Nordic countries, and there are vulnerable geographical areas that will be particularly affected by an increasing number of devastating natural events. The Climate Change Resilience…

Researchers: WHO guidelines are unattainable in poor countries

What do you do in a country like Tanzania, for example, when the WHO says that all countries must set up COVID centers?

Global Development Day: Calling all CAS students for activity ideas

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT DAY Calling all students at UCPH. Brand new student driven event addressing the global development agenda. Deadline for sending ideas for activities is November 14th.

CAS Visiting Researcher: Amala Anyika

Amala Anyika, MA from the University of Sheffield, visited CAS for two weeks in October 2021 as part of a Global Opportunities Travel Bursary. Originally, the aim of Amala’s visit to CAS was to gather material and…

Global Development Day

Global Development Day: Calling all UCPH students for activity ideas

Calling all students at UCPH. Brand new student driven event addressing the global development agenda. Deadline for sending ideas for activities is November 14th.

Why African Studies Matters

In a just published article in the Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS), Amanda Hammar, Professor of African Studies at CAS, outlines the central role played by African Studies in addressing the core questions…

New British Academy funded research project on urban parks in Ghana

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor at CAS, is co-investigator on a British Academy funded project titled “Old parks, new futures: recording the uses of open space in an African city”. The project is a collaboration…

Sustainable tourism and COVID-19

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has authored two articles in the journal Geografisk Orientering (GO). Stig Jensen addresses the development of nature-based tourism in Africa and its impact on local communities. In the…

Watch: Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa

The recording of Dr. Reiner Klingholz keynote address "Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa" is now available.

Video: Foodborne Infections and Outbreaks - in Denmark and beyond

Watch the video recording of Steen Ethelberg's inaugural lecture 'Foodborne Infections and Outbreaks - in Denmark and beyond'.

Video: Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa

Watch the video recording of Reiner Klingholz' keynote address 'Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa' at the international conference 'Asia and Africa in Transition'.

Video: Deciphering the meantime in an era of climate change

Watch or re-watch Professor Jonathan Rigg's keynote address from the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition."

Digitizing citizens' biometric data is a double-edged sword

Assistant professor Toke Møldrup Wolff has written an article in GlobalNyt about the dilemma which the world community is faced with regards to digitalizing citizens' biometric data. He explains how the case of…

The tourists come and the good life returns

Associate professor Stig Jensen has written an article in GlobalNyt based on his fieldwork in Costa Rica where nature-based tourism plays a central role in the financing of nature management, which creates jobs and thus…

An Insight into UCPH's long road towards becoming a green university

Associate Professor Stig Jensen provides an insight into UCPH's long road towards becoming a green university. He reflects on the unparalleled euphoric mood in UCP's management linked to prospects of access to financia…

Review of Doreen Baingana’s short story ’Lucky’ by Karen Lauterbach (CAS)

Karen Lauterbach, Associate Professor at CAS, has reviewed Doreen Baingana’s story ‘Lucky’ for Africa in Words. The story was originally published in Ibua Journal. Doreen Baingana is an Ugandan writer, who won the…