UCPH Global - selected news

2021.06.30

Niels Kastfelt in Genstart on Boko Haram leader's presumed death

The leader of the terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has been reported dead in northern Nigeria. In a podcast for the Genstart program on Danish national radio P1 associate professor emeritus Niels Kastfelt from…

COPE Socials

2021.06.25

Understanding the transborder implications of volcanic eruptions using a holistic approach

The webinar was hosted by the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) and held on 10 June 2021. Dr. Amy Donovan, University Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, discussed recent…

2021.06.15

PhD position

The Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies invites applications for a 3-year PhD-scholarship

2021.06.09

Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written two articles on nature management in Chad

Associate professor at Centre of African Studies, Stig Jensen, has written two articles, that explore nature management in Chad, and how the integrated conservation of bio-diversity in Chad has inspired the European…

Appointment

2021.05.25

Amanda Hammar appointed Professor

The Faculty of Theology has appointed Associate Professor Amanda Hammar as Professor. In her new position as Professor of African Studies, alongside other roles and with other colleagues, she hope to combine several…

2021.05.20

Video: Making It Count

The recording of the book talk with Arunabh Ghosh is now available.

Publication

2021.05.20

DMP knowledge base - a consolidated understanding of social media and crowdsourcing in disaster management processes

New report reviewing Social Media & Crowdsourcing (SMCS) in Disasters calling for a more people-centred approach.

2021.04.27

The Stabilising Anchor of the Sahel is Threatened

Associate professor at CAS, Stig Jensen has written an article on the recent killing of Chadian president Idriss Déby, and how this might have very big repercussions for the entire Sahel region. He analyses how Chad has…

2021.04.20

A year in a pandemic - Stig Jensen writes three articles on the Corona-crisis in Africa

Associate professor at CAS, Stig Jensen, has written three articles on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications and consequences on the African continent.

2021.04.13

New article on the COVID-19 Vaccine, Christian right end-time prophecy and conspiracy theory, by Senior Guest Researcher, Primus Tazanu.

Senior Guest researcher at CAS, Primus Tazanu, publishes article on "COVID-19 vaccine, Christian right end-time prophecy, and conspiracy theory. The article pivots around COVID-19 and the vaccine, with the main point…

2021.04.09

New article on refugee-refugee hosting in faith-based contexts by Karen Lauterbach

Karen Lauterbach (Associate Professor at CAS) has published the article ‘’A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith Based Context’ in Migration and Society (vol. 4, issue 1). The article…

Case challenge

2021.04.07

A student solution for Brazil's mass vaccination problem

A multidisciplinary team consisting of five students from Global Health, Global Development, and Medicine represented the University of Copenhagen at the 2021 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition.

2021.04.06

Hans Olsson writes article on COVID-19, food shortages, and Christian farming in South Africa

In this article Hans Olsson puts focus on the relationship between religion and farming in South Africa and discusses how a Christian model to grow food enters questions of social and ecological sustainability.…

2021.03.30

Stig Jensen discusses the African football association CAF and their new president, Patrice Motsepe

The African football association CAF has a new president, after Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar had to resign due to corruption. The new man at the helm is the South African business man and mining billionaire Patrice…

CASE CHALLENGE

2021.03.24

New Global Health Case Challenge: Improving quality of care at birth in the wake of COVID-19

There is a new student case challenge in town! University of Copenhagen is re-launching its popular international Global Health Case Challenge in collaboration with three Nordic universities.

New research

2021.03.19

The fight against diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh

Rebeca Sultana has spent the last six years investigating diarrheal diseases including cholera transmission in a low-income urban community in Dhaka. Read her story here.

2021.03.19

Asian Futures: Rethinking the Asian Century

This seminar open a series of talks on the question of Asian Futures in the 21st century.

Cardiovascular disease

2021.03.08

Failing to see the wood for the trees may be preventing better outcomes in cardiovascular disease

Managing single risk factors like blood pressure rather than looking at overall risk may be wasting scarce resources in countries where cardiovascular disease (CVD) is on the rise, according to a new study.

2021.03.08

New public seminar series: Asian Futures

Drawing on fresh scholarly work by researchers around the world, Asian Futures will begin a series of conversations on the shifting dynamics of Asian politics and the economy.

2021.03.02

New project looking to enhance young people’s climate crisis awareness, agency and action in Tanzania

A multidisciplinary group of researchers from the sections of Global Health and Health Services Research has been awarded DKK 12 million from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study young people’s engagement wit…