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The images that veil Denmark’s colonial past

We talk about the era of colonialism as something that is over. But we forget to ask — over for whom? In a new book, Professor Mathias Danbolt dwells on some of the most iconic and familiar images from the colonial period, and he asks us stay with the discomfort.

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Education

Formalin and cancer at the University of Copenhagen: Facts and unanswered questions

TV documentary asks whether students may have developed cancer after exposure to formalin in a dissection basement at the Faculty of Health and Medicine.

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Working environment

Lecturers in limbo: »There’s no job category for people like us«

When their contracts expire this summer, two popular literature lecturers at the University of Copenhagen stand to lose their jobs — or get stuck in positions without any allotted time for research. Their story is not just about them. It is about what research-based teaching should look like in the future.

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Science

Their bachelor's thesis made it into the top-tier journal 'The Lancet'

An internship in Australia set off a research project on functional disorders. Now, two Danish students have published their results in one of the world’s leading medical journals.

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Working environment

Petition launched for University of Copenhagen lecturers in contract limbo

Bureaucracy is preventing two popular lecturers from being rehired in Comparative Literature. Students push back: »Agus was the highlight of my time at university.«

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Working environment

Research and information security unit after the reform: Tasks pushed up the chain

New opportunities for collaboration, but less proximity to researchers. That’s how research adviser Heidi Weje describes life in the UCPH Research and Information Security unit after the reform.

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Working environment

Communications staff after the reform: Thriving centrally, missing the local touch

Three communications staff on having stronger professional ties — and on the challenges of centralisation

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Education

University of Copenhagen reverses decision on exchange lottery

Study abroad lottery is scrapped before it even began: »We messed up,« admits education director

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Education

Supporting students with special needs: One lecturer’s approach

Associate Professor Kim Ebensgaard teaches a generation of students with increasing need for additional support. A student generation that places greater demands on lecturers.

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Education

Support for students with disabilities arrives too late — ministries criticised

Students with support needs should get help from day one — but they don’t. Government criticised by national auditor.

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