SCIENCE COMMUNICATION. The big tent in Bältesspännarparken was packed this Friday night, when i the year’s edition of Science Slam took place during the International Science Festival. During Science Slam, researchers from the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers get three minutes to talk about their research and then the audience will vote for a winner.
Science Slam is organized annually as part of the International Science Festival in Gothenburg, where researchers from University of Gothenburg and Chalmers are on stage for three minutes giving brief talks about their research. It is the audience that votes for the researcher thought ta have provided the most informative, accessible and thoughtful appearance. In this year’s competition, eight researchers participated, and the winner was Christoffer Pettersson from the Department of Physics at Chalmers. He talked about the Higgs boson and dark matter.
One of the contestants from University of Gothenburg was Sami Adwan who spoke of how Israeli and Palestinian history and geography are presented in Swedish textbooks:
“It was nice to share what I do in my research,” said Sami Adwan, explaining that it was a challenge to give a lecture that lasted for only three minutes: “It was difficult to choose what information should be included and what level of language I would have, but I think it went well. This is an activity I hope to continue to showcase the research. At the University of Gothenburg there is an environment that encourages research.”
Another representative of the University of Gothenburg was Bentolhoda Fereydouni. She lectured on the role of epigenetics in cancer and how to prevent diseases by conducting a healthy lifestyle. She encouraged the audience to think about things like exercise, alcohol consumption and what kind of food they eat.
The knowledge about the relationship between lifestyle and disease is something she considers necessary to be expanded.
“Unfortunately, in society there is a shortcoming in this. Media, schools and universities need to be more informative. We can prevent many types of diseases by thinking about what we do with our own bodies, “says Bentolhoda Fereydouni.
BY: THIMMY MÅRD
