Research at the Department of Antropology

Department of Anthropology has a strong research culture as a central part of its work. Most members of the academic staff are research active and play an important role in helping the department to remain up to date with the most recent research within its disciplines.

Recently, the institute has also been involved in a number of research projects on the Covid-19 epidemic and the green transition.

In this section, you will find links to current and completed projects.

PhD projects

Research at Centre for Global Criminology

PROJECTS INITIATED 2018-2024

Below we have collected links to current research projects initiated by researchers at the department or with the department as an important stakeholder.

(2025-2029) SOLID

The Social Life of Dead Bodies
(2024-2026) CGC PROJECT

Human Traffickers (TRAFFICKER)
(2024-2029) PROMACS

Promoting Climate Change Adaptation in a Context of Multiple Crises in Burkina Faso
(2024) CGC PROJECT

Young Copenhageners’ use of illegal opioids and benzodiazepines
(2024 -2028) CLAIMS

CLAIMS to Energy Citizenship in South Africa
(2024-2025) DEEP

Designing Community Collaboration for Sustainable Energy Parks
(2023-2025) CGC PROJECT

Roskilde Festival: Mapping emerging drug trends in Danish party culture
(2023-2026) COASTAL CONFLICTS

Mapping Storm Surge Protection Disagreements and Solutions in Denmark

Flood. Photo: Colby Winfield (Unsplash)
(2022-2026) FIRE

Fire and Political Alterity in Amazonia
(2022-2025) UPCHAIN

Unlocking the Potential of Green Charcoal Innovations to Mitigate Climate Change in Northern Uganda
(2023-2027) Silicon Island

Building (In)Equitable Tech Futures in Out of the Way Places
(2023-2026) DART

The Danish Model for Citizen Engagement in the Renewable energy Transition
(2022-2027) CGC PROJECT

Environmental Crime and Illegal Ecologies (ILLECO)
(2022-2025) SAMSKAB

From Gray Housing Associations to Green Neighboring Communities
(2023-2026) DIGINEX

Transforming environmental engagement
(2023-2026) OMODE

Oracular modeling: Translation in Climate Forecasts
(2022-2024) CONSCOV

Consequences of the COVID Epidemic for Youth Reproductive Health in Northern Uganda
(2022 -2024) DigiSAt

Digital Everyday Lives and Energy Futures in a South African Township

Foto: Karen Waltorp
(2022-2024) CGC PROJECT

Urban B/ordering (UrBorder)
(2021-2024) SODAS PROJECT

Machine Anthropology: Ethnographic Text as Data
(2020-2024) CGC PROJECT

PREVEX – Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA
(2022-2025) RE-ANIMATE

Designs for Life-Enhancing Economies in Anthropological Perspective
(2021-2024) Summary in English

Lokale Landvindinger

Glenstrup Sø udløb
(2019-2024) Use of technologies targeting an ageing population

Sensing Old Age
(2022-2026) Gestational Diabetes in Vietnam

Living Together with Chronic Disease (VALID II)
(2020-2024) DISTRACT (SODAS project)

The political economy of distraction in digitized Denmark

Test -test
(2019-2024) IMAGENU

Imagining Gender Futures in Uganda

(2019-2024) CGC PROJECT

The Remaking of International Criminal Justice
(2018–2024) Emerging Epidemics

Improving Preparedness in Burkina Faso
(2018-2024) CGC project

Criminal Entanglements (CRIMTANG)

Back alley

VITAL

VITAL explores how ‘quality of life’ is assembled, mobilised, negotiated and practiced by patients, relatives and health care professionals.

(Ayo Wahlberg, 2015-2021)

The project is complete, but still releasing new publications.

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VALID I: A collaboration between Denmark and Vietnam

VALID I explores how informal diabetes care is provided in the home and the community, emphasizing research capacity-building and interdisciplinary collaboration. (Tine Gammeltoft 2018-2024).

The project is complet, but still releasing new publications, input for policies and program development.

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All completed projects