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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.

2022.11.29

Nai Lee Kalema, visiting researcher on the CERTIZEN project

Nai Lee Kalema is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen's Centre for African Studies (CAS) for the CERTIZENS project. Nai is a third-year PhD candidate in Innovation and Public Policy at the UCL…

2022.11.22

Land healing, farming and spiritual cleansing in Southern Africa

In their recent work, Marie Curie Fellow, Hans Olsson, and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach ask what the relationship between religion, healing and farming in Southern Africa could look like? Discussing Christian…

Podcast

2022.11.21

New podcast about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar

A new podcast series from the University of Copenhagen about research capacity development and environmental health in Zanzibar.

Research

2022.11.18

Pushing the Boundaries in Disaster Studies: Reflections from the NEEDS 2022 PhD Workshop

Integrated in this year's Northern European Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS) Conference in Copenhagen, there was a two-day PhD Workshop which took place between October 31 and November 1.

2022.11.17

Climate reparations can give a Denmark comeback as an aid beacon

Why is Denmark paying development aid? To answer this question Associate Professor Stig Jensen has written an article about Denmark's proposal to pay climate reparations to the Global South. He explains that it is…

Climate Change

2022.10.26

New collaboration between the University College Copenhagen and University of Belize

COPE researcher Rico Kongsager from the University College Copenhagen just returned from Belize, where he, together with his colleague Maren Egedorf, are in the initial phase of establishing a collaboration with the…

Climate Change

2022.10.20

High temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely

Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the summer of 2022

Antibiotics

2022.10.13

Myths about antibiotics are a much bigger problem than you think

A recent study by the University of Copenhagen is used to develop new communication materials informing patients and health care professionals about the correct use of antibiotics.