About current field course

Information meeting for enrolled students: 5th December 2025 at Frederiksberg campus - precise location to be announced. 

Please see the full course description here: Practicing Interdisciplinary Field Research on the Environment - 2025/2026

You register for the course through the normal course registration in November at KU.

The field work will in 2026 take place in Sarawak (Malaysia) and Kenya in collaboration with staff and students from the  University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and University of Nairobi, Kenya.

At the information meeting we will assign you to the field location through a lottery and inform you about the course, the field work and the practical preparations (flight ticket etc.) you need to make before the course and the field work.

On the course you will work in an interdisciplinary group with students from different academic backgrounds. The group will work on a thematic research area provided by the lecturers, but with a great deal of freedom to define the focus of the work. We provide more information about the thematic research areas when the course starts.

The course starts on the first Monday of block 3. It is a 15 ECTS course, which means that you have no other courses during the block, so expect to work full time during the three weeks of field work preparation, about 2 weeks of field work (including travelling), and three weeks of writing the report. The exam will take place during the last 2-3 days of the exam week.

If you have any questions about the course and the field trip, please contact the course coordinators Dorette Müller-Stöver, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at dsst@plen.ku.dk, Mariève Pouliot, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen at mapo@ifro.ku.dk, or Ole Mertz, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at om@ign.ku.dk.