The current chairman of the Academic Appointments Board, Lars Fändriks, has requested to leave the committee at the turn of the year, and member Per-Anders Jansson has also asked to leave the assignment. The new chairman will be the current vice chairman Johan Wessberg, Insitute of Neuroscience and Physiology. Peter Andiné, Insitute of Neuroscience and Physiology, has accepted assignments as member and new vice-chairman. Roger Olofsson Bagge, Insitute of Clinical Sciences, has also accepted the assignment to become a new member. The members of the Academic Appointments Board are appointed by the faculty board, following a proposal from the dean and after consultation with the joint faculty nomination committee, which has announced that it supports the appointments.

 

In order to be included in University of Gothenburg’s annual report, publications in print during 2022 must be registered in the publications database GUP no later than Sunday 8 January.

Based on your original publication, please make sure to pay particular attention to complete and correct details on:

• author affiliation
• year of publication
• ISBN/ISSN
• DOI

To complete the quality control of recent edits, see tab Review in GUP.

• To GUP
• More about how to register in GUP

Please contact the library’s GUP-support if you have questions about GUP:

E-mail: gup@ub.gu.se
Phone: 031-786 66 71

Now the film from the registry research seminar 13 December “Register in Sweden” is posted on the web. The film can be seen in GU Play until December 28. It can then be viewed by logging in with x-id. https://www.gu.se/medicin/seminarieserie-om-registerforskning
Note – the filmed seminar is held in Swedish.

In the coming years the Swedish Cancer Society (Cancerfonden) plans to announce larger grants for research: SEK 3-10 million/year, maximum SEK 30 million over 3-5 years. The size of the grants aims to enable cost-intensive projects that are difficult to finance within the framework of ordinary grants.

In 2023 the extra call is for clinical treatment studies in cancer. Eligible to apply are researchers who have previously held hold from the Swedish Cancer Society, as well as those who currently hold ordinary project grants from the Swedish Cancer Society and plan to apply for continuation grants during 2023-2025.

Researchers with existing grants from the Swedish Cancer Society must clearly describe how the requested support of the extra calls relates to and possibly overlaps scientifically and financially with ongoing ordinary projects or with applications for ordinary projects.

In February-March 2023 the Swedish Cancer Society organises a couple of informational webinars aimed at all applicants for the spring application round, with focus on the extra call for clinical treatment studies in cancer.

More information about the extra calls can be found here (in Swedish): Grants for researchers – information clinical studies. 

Dates and deadlines for the Swedish Cancer Society’s calls 2023:

• The spring’s regular application round (project, researcher months and planning group) opens on March 15th and closes on May 2nd at 3:00 p.m.
• The application round for the new extra investment opens on March 15th and closes on August 25th at 15:00.
• The application round for positions opens on 24 August and closes on 5th October at 15:00.

 

Eva M Andersson, researcher at Occupational and Environmental Medicine, receives SEK 3.7 million from Forte for a project on socio-economic inequality in exposure to environmental health risks in Sweden. Environmental exposures are risk factors for many diseases, but the relationship between socioeconomics and environmental exposure (air pollution, traffic noise) has rarely been studied. The study is based on the SCAPIS cohort with roughly 30,000 people from six Swedish cities. The researchers will investigate whether there is inequality in the physical environment, so that, for example, residents in “poor” areas are exposed to higher levels of air pollution and more traffic noise. The goal is to estimate what proportion of the social gradient in health can be attributed to exposure from the surrounding environment.

Staff members are now welcome to Servicecenter to purchase a parking permit for 2023 for SEK 100 (only card payment). You can only get one parking permit per person, so you need to show a valid ID or GU card at the Servicecenter. The permits are valid until the end of January 2024 and can be used in all university parking areas.

• Map showing all the parking areas (pdf)
• Addresses and opening hours to Servicecenter

For the second year in a row, the thesis pitch competition 3MT will be organised during the Science Festival at the end of April. The competition is for doctoral students at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. The contestants will have three minutes to present their thesis in a clear and inspiring manner for a non-academic audience, using maximum one single powerpoint slide. The competition is held in English. Register your interest before 31 January 2023.
Find out more about the competition and how to register

Maria Bygdell, researcher at the Institute of Medicine, receives a total of SEK 2.4 million from the Swedish Research Council for a study in which she will conduct a thorough, broad and detailed registry-based analysis of the patient population diagnosed with post-covid. From the University of Gothenburg, Elin Naurin, professor at the Department of Political Science, is also the main applicant for a project on the effects of pandemics on society’s support for pregnant women and their families, which receives a total of SEK 4.5 million in the call.

Wednesday, January 11 2023 at 11:59 pm is an important deadline for those responsible for entering exam results in Ladok. By then all exams or other credits that the students have done throughout the year 2022 must be marked as confirmed. If we report results related to 2022 after this deadline, we will not be paid for the performance. It is very important that we make the effort

Due to the situation on the energy market and the government’s task for state authorities to take energy saving measures, Akademiska Hus has
produced a document regarding rapid energy-saving measures with key figures. If businesses cover energy saving
measures, Akademiska Hus can see what they can do to help carry them out as well as with carrying out calculations.

Here you can read the document “Energy-saving measures in Akademiska Hus premises” (PDF in Swedish).