UCPH Global - selected news

2023.04.26

Documentary Film & Talks – South Korean Pop Culture

This week ADI and the Department for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies welcomes Associate Professor Stephen Epstein from the University of Wellington New Zealand.

Livestreams

2023.04.25

Did you miss Global Health Film Days? Watch the panels here

If you missed Global Health Film Days, you can still watch the panels from most of the events here.

Anniversary

2023.04.25

From Danish to international and global health: 10-year anniversary of the MSc in Global Health

2023 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Master of Science in Global Health, which emerged from the discipline of International Health.

Case Competition

2023.04.24

Global Health Case Competition 2023 in Atlanta

With support from the School of Global Health, six UCPH students participated in the Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition 2023 in Atlanta, US.

New Podcast

2023.04.20

DR Tiden: Sudans warring partners

On the recent episode of the Danish Radio podcast Tiden, Associate Professor at CAS, Stig Jensen tells the story of the growing conflict in Sudan.

Blind spots

2023.04.14

The global health sector depends on women but favours men

Women make up more than 70 percent of the healthcare workforce globally, but the industry still favors men. This can create blind spots in research and lead to global personnel shortages.

Book Chapter

2023.04.04

Grounding the Prosperity Gospel

In their recent work, Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach and CAS Affiliate Professor George Bob-Milliar, present an overview of grounding the prosperity gospel, basing their discussion on an analysis of the project of…

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.