Department of Anthropology

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Ida Marie Lind Glavind receives The Margaret Clark Award

This year’s award recipient of The Margaret Clark Award is Ida Marie Lind Glavind, PhD student at…

New projects will map conflicts over coastal protection in Denmark and environmental mobilisation in Indonesia

Two projects at the Department of Anthropology have received grants from the Independent Research…

International journal to strengthen the dialogue between research and business

The international Journal of Business Anthropology relocates to the Department of Anthropology at…

How do we ensure local support for green energy production?

Huge Power-to-X investments in new hydrogen-based fuels shall propel the green transition in Denmar…

Wildfires: When nature strikes back politically

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, anthropologists will investigate how the…

New intervention to strengthen efforts against diabetes in Vietnam

As one of four new Danida-supported projects involving researchers from the Department of…

Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, new research anchored at the Department of Anthropology…

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: We are living in an overheated world

The Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been proclaimed Honorary Doctor at…

Living with chronic disease: Three questions that still need answering

We still lack knowledge on how best to help patients with chronic diseases. Ayo Wahlberg, who just…

New project uncovers digital upheavals in South Africa

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, a new project at the Department of…

Honorary Doctor Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Staff, students and interested parties are invited to this Special Edition of Department Day, 11…

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

With a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the UCPH will study how…

New publication

Viral Loads

Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto…

Green network to strengthen cross-disciplinary research into green transition

A new research network, The Governance of Green Transition, under the Faculty of Social Sciences,…

We need to rethink the healthcare sector

The conference on chronic conditions at the UCPH revealed a growing interest in the everyday lives…

Opening speeches from the Chronic Living conference

Read the opening speeches held at the Chronic Living Conference taking place online from 4-6 March…

The University of Copenhagen gathers medical anthropologists for a conference on chronic conditions

With close to 500 participants, the Chronic Living conference on 4-6 March will be one of the…

Biotech company funds research project on diversity

In collaboration with Genmab, a new anthropological postdoc project at the Department of…

Project will create new narratives about open landscapes

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, a major research project will address land use change in…

New diagnostic model to help speed up treatment of children with cancer

Researchers at Rigshospitalet and the Department of Anthropology have developed a new diagnostic…

Selected publications