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After a decision to stop all Danish universities' collaboration with their Russian counterparts an associate professor considers cutting ties to his many Russian colleagues. He is concerned that the decision will have negative consequences for important research.
Why do you study gender research at uni when it only leads to hostility when you talk about it? We went to the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Difference and asked three young research interns.
Student of literature Victor Skov Jeppesen is on duty at a red van where sex workers service their customers. It's tough, in the biting cold, when you have to pick up condoms from the street, and when angry men shout at him – but he knows that he's making a difference.
Associate professor of law Hin-Yan Liu has been named Lecturer of the Year. And this in spite of the fact that according to him he actually does no lecturing. He would rather discuss with his students, and walk away from the classroom with enough material for half a book.
It is free, and it is climate-friendly. The student association’s Rodebutikken, or ‘shambles shop’ is a swap centre that wants to shake up how students consume clothing.
Identity politics and activist research threaten the soul of the university. And it needs to be stopped – now. This was the message from a number of determined researchers at a hearing organised by Danish politicians Morten Messerschmidt and Henrik Dahl at the Danish parliament.
Hin-Yan Liu is popular among his students. He has been voted lecturer of the year.
At Lægeforeningens Kollegium, there is never a dull moment, but that doesn’t mean you will be partying every night
The Niels Bohr Institute is 100 years old. Through the course of these years, the research has moved from blackboards to quantum computers. But an informal, anti-hierarchical spirit from the times of Bohr is still present.
