UCPH Global - selected news

New Staff

2024.07.24

Mumbi Macharia is the new Kiswahili teacher at the Centre of African Studies

Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Mumbi will be teaching Kiswahili I and Kiswahili II at the Center of African Studies

New Staff

2024.07.18

Ben Jones joins the Centre of African Studies as an Associate Professor

Ben will be working on the 'Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana' research project. He brings long-term experience as an ethnographer, with a particular focus on local level institutions in Africa, and the part they play…

Symposium

2024.07.12

Health in Greenland - local and global perspectives

On 28 June 2024, University of Copenhagen's Department of Public Health, Globe Institute, and the School of Global Health hosted an enlightening afternoon symposium about health in Greenland.

PHD Opportunity

2024.07.10

PostDoc/PhD/MPhil Opportunities at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Positions in Kumasi, Ghana are part of the 'Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana' research project

Research

2024.06.28

New Publication: Sources of wealth and legitimacy in charismatic Christianity in Ghana

'A man’s gift will make room for him': Sources of wealth and legitimacy in charismatic Christianity in Ghana

PhD Opportunity

2024.06.28

PhD scholarship on Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship on Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen. The scholarship is for three years and is available from 1 January 2025 o…

RESEARCH

2024.06.18

Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world

COPE Director Emmanuel Raju and Global Health Student Nick Baumgart are co-authors of the report titled "Urban planning at the heart of increasingly severe East African flood impacts in a warming world", that first…

PERSPECTIVE

2024.06.11

Unravelling Water Scarcity and Pathogen Transmission: PhD Research Stay in Bangladesh

Sara Almeida is a PhD fellow at COPE and her research is part of the DANIDA funded WatScarce project, a multidisciplinary project studying the influence of water scarcity on pathogen transmission in low-income urban…

INTERVIEW

2024.06.11

Interview with Kristoffer Langkjær Albris

COPE interviews Kristoffer Albris, Associate Professor at Anthropology and SODAS, University of Copenhagen, Head of Studies for M.Sc. in Social Data Science. What do you do at COPE and how does your anthropological…

WORKSHOP

2024.06.05

"Translating climate science for international law": COPE hosts the second multidisciplinary workshop in Copenhagen

After kicking off their collaboration in Amsterdam in June 2023, a multidisciplinary group of scholars working in the fields of Climate Science and International Law got together in Copenhagen on 23 and 24 May 2024 to…

Study Environment

2024.06.03

Strong Social Ties at Centre of African Studies

A New Report from University of Copenhagen Reveals Strong Social Cohesion and Supportive Study Environment at the Centre of African Studies.

GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT

2024.05.29

Bolette Frydendahl Larsen: The everyday life of people living with HIV/AIDS in Denmark

Meet Bolette Frydendahl Larsen, a postdoc at the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Difference, University of Copenhagen.

REPORT

2024.05.24

Borgernes forståelser af skybrud og andre beredskabshændelser samt forventninger til kommunikation i Frederiksberg Kommune

Nina Blom Andersen and Louise Hill have published a report (in Danish) presenting the findings from the Danish LINKS case study on cloud bursts in the city of Frederiksberg. Based on a comprehensive study involving both…

in memory of

2024.05.23

Remembering Ole Justesen // Mindeord om Ole Justesen

It is with sadness that we have received the message of the passing of Ole Justesen, co-founder and former Director at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

STUDENTS

2024.05.13

Student experience in the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods course, Chennai 2024

As part of the Master of Disaster Management programme, this year’s Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Methods (VRAM) elective was hosted in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in partnership with the Indian Institute of…

Care Drain

2024.05.01

Researchers warn: Denmark will drain the Philippines and India of the health care workers they themselves need

Denmark has far better coverage of healthcare professionals than India and the Philippines, which report a shortage of nurses. "Ethically worrying" that Denmark wants to recruit from there, say three researchers.

Global Health Researcher Spotlight

2024.05.01

Helle Samuelsen: How civil servants promote climate change adaptation in Burkina Faso

The School of Global Health's Global Health Research Spotlight series focuses on global health researchers from the University of Copenhagen.

RESEARCHER SPOTLIGHT

2024.04.30

Healthy Future exhibition features Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen

COPE member and associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen is featured in a new exhibition inaugurated by the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Bente Merete…

Diplomacy in Africa

2024.04.30

Dag Hammarskjöld - UN Hero?

In a recent podcast produced by Radio4 titled ‘Verden Kalder’, Associate Professor Stig Jensen delves into the history surrounding Dag Hammarskjöld, in light of the recently released movie about his life. Stig speaks…

RESEARCH

2024.04.25

Social media and crowdsourcing in disaster risk management: Trends, gaps, and insights from the current state of research

Social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) are increasingly used as tools to govern disasters. Nevertheless, we have a limited understanding of how these technologies support disaster risk management (DRM). Based on a…