Social Science news

Miss Average
08/12-11 kl. 06:00 Campus / Social Science

Out the door in fifteen minutes

Our Miss Average, Emma, has a high octane get-up-and-get-ready routine that would leave most students standing

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Nawin from Nepal: I was homesick
01/11-11 kl. 10:25 Research / Social Science

Award named after Copenhagen economist

The late University of Copenhagen economist, Birgit Grodal, has had an award from the European Economic Association named after her.

Elections,6
16/09-11 kl. 13:24

Election night at the Faculty of Social Sciences

University Post reporter Ekaterina Chapiro spent her election night Thursday at the Faculty of Social Sciences campus CSS. Here are her photos.

Mortensen2
15/06-11 kl. 11:11 Research / Social Science

Hard for your future boss to find you

New technologies like job search engines don’t, really, make it easier for employers to find employees, explains Nobel Prize economist to the University Post, who paints a gloomy picture of our current crisis

Library Closures - Protest
26/05-11 kl. 09:58 Education / Social Science

Demo action planned against library closures

As five social science department libraries are threatened with closure, students prepare to protest

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Library Closures
20/05-11 kl. 05:00 Politics / Social Science

Uproar as Faculty plans to close five libraries

Students fear that a decision to close all five department libraries at the Faculty of Social Science will be carried out hastily, and without their consultation

Campus Catwalk: Social Sciences 8
04/05-11 kl. 08:10

Campus Catwalk: Social Sciences

Spring fashion at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Please take a close look and let us know if these babies dress better than the Humanities students.

Vote here

Photos: Elisabeth Ginsberg

Cabaret 1
12/04-11 kl. 08:12

Political Science cabaret

Political Science students spend half the Spring semester preparing their annual cabaret. This year, they satirized everything from the facebook revolution in the Middle East to unpaid internships in Brussels. And the controversial Copenhagen scientist Milena Penkowa, of course.

Photos and captions: Elisabeth Ginsberg

Click here to see more photos on our Facebook page

Social Science 3
02/04-11 kl. 07:12

Campus Catwalk: Social Science semi-finals

After a long and harsh winter, the Social Science students are slowly emerging in the garden courtyard at CSS campus. Check out their spring outfits!

Who looks the better, Social Science students and Theology students? Vote now here!

FTT event
22/01-11 kl. 09:15 Research / Social Science

Experts: Robin Hood tax on banks will work

A tax on bank transactions to help fight poverty and prevent future economic crises is feasible, argued experts at University of Copenhagen event

14/01-11 kl. 13:43 Education / Social Science

Political Science hires new boss

Lars Bo Kaspersen, a department head at the Copenhagen Business School, is now to lead the Department of Political Science

Economists without borders
13/12-10 kl. 06:00 Campus / Social Science

Economists to save the world with statistics

Economists Without Borders puts voluntary student consultants in touch with charities who can’t afford pricey number-crunchers

Ivan Waddington
11/11-10 kl. 15:00 Research / Science / Social Science

Team doctors doped up on competition

Sociologist blames sports physicians for adding to the problem of doping in sports.

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Øresund bridge
30/10-10 kl. 05:00 Research / Social Science

Øresund Bridge boosts science ranking

The bridge to Sweden has made Copenhagen a better place to do research, a geographer finds. Now all the city needs is a little more money

Blockade CSS
14/06-10 kl. 08:47 Politics / Social Science

Students block entrances and occupy CSS (updated)

CSS Campus at the University of Copenhagen is right now under blockade by around 100 students. They fear that announced cutbacks will hit the Social Sciences hard

study tips
09/06-10 kl. 10:05 Education / Social Science

Tips to study smarter

New video tutorials give students techniques for more effective studying

Evaluation
01/05-10 kl. 05:00 Education / Social Science

Lecturer provoked by poor English evaluation

Students said he was hard to understand. He countered with a four-page written response: Their evaluation was flawed

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English teaching
01/05-10 kl. 04:55 Education / Social Science

Bad accent is considered bad teaching

Students interpret the teacher’s dialect and bad grammar as lack of competence

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Dale Mortensen
11/06-11 kl. 05:00 Research / Social Science

Nobel economics prize winner in Copenhagen

Dale T. Mortensen to present lecture on »Markets with Search Friction and the Great Recession« Tuesday where he will also talk about his life in research

CSS Campus Catwalk
18/02-11 kl. 09:48 Culture / Pharma / Social Science

Campus catwalk: Pharma vs. Social Sciences

Lab coat or shabby-chic fur? Vote for the faculty with the most fashion sense

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