The Academic Language Unit (ASK) offers resources of various kinds for university staff. Writing and language development guidance is given in both Swedish and English, partly with the aim of strengthening the staff’s own competence to speak and write in academic contexts, and partly with the aim of strengthening this competence of the students through education-specific collaborations in different courses or through teacher competence development. This spring, among other things, ASK offers pedagogical full-day seminars for teachers on student essay writing. Individual supervision, workshops, writing groups, conversation groups and beginner’s lessons in Swedish for international staff – read more about ASK’s activities and what they can offer at https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/ask

The University of Gothenburg now has a new external web, which among other things has a more user-friendly structure and a more modern look. Therefore, the faculty has a new web address: www.gu.se/sahlgrenska-akademin, instead of the old www.sahlgrenska.gu.se. The institutes have similarly received new web addresses. However, links to these pages are not broken. During a transition period, visitors are redirected to the new address, but in the long run it is good if the new web address is used instead of the old one.
You may also need to update your email signature. Read more in the Staff Portal.

On September 1, the university will change the spam filter for e-mail. For a period of time you need to check spam folders extra carefully, as “real” emails can be sorted as spam. Functional mailbox folders also need to be checked. At the same time, emails that should have been sorted as spam can end up in your inbox. Therefore, during the first two weeks of September, you need to check your spam folders extra carefully. If many “real” e-mails end up in the spam, feel free to notify support@gu.se. Attach the emails that ended up wrong, so he spam filter can be adjusted.

The corona pandemic has meant major changes for Sweden’s universities and colleges. The government has commissioned UKÄ to evaluate the consequences for university’s activities. In addition to the transition to distance education, UKÄ will follow changes in terms of study interests, internationalization, legal certainty and research funding to name just a few areas that may be subject to analysis within the framework of this assignment. The assignment must be carried out in consultation with universities and colleges and be finalized no later than 1 December 2022.

The university should archive documents that would not normally be considered public documents but which can now provide information about the corona crisis. Examples of this are internal communications such as e-mail correspondence, work notes and information on the web and social media that contain information about Corona or that in various ways shed light on how Covid-19 affects the operations. The request comes from the National Archives of Sweden, which believes that documentation from this time is socially important information that can be used for future research, and which is part of the larger picture of how Sweden has handled the crisis. More informatin available in the Staff Portal.

The best-selling book Personcentrering inom hälso- och sjukvård – från filosofi till praktik is released in a completely revised second edition. Person centering has in a short time grown strongly in health care and the book discusses the concept from a philosophical and ethical perspective, but it also shares experiences from various activities and health professions, such as prehospital emergency care, hospital care in internal medicine, intensive care and close care at home. You are welcome to participate in a digital book release (in Swedish), with, among others, the editor-in-chief Inger Ekman, Tuesday 15 September 15: 00-15: 45, via Zoom. Register no later than 13 September.

The ethics seminar, “Gränslandet sjukvård – forskning: vad är vad?” (Borderland healthcare – research: what is what? – the seminar will be given in Swedish), with Bengt Gerdin and Kjell Asplund, which was originally planned to be given on March 26, will not be given as a webinar in the autumn. Both the speakers and the two organizers, the Council for Research Ethics at Sahlgrenska Academy and the Ethics Council at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, agree that the seminar isn’t suited to be held in a digital form and therefore choose to wait until it is possible to invite to a physical seminar . Akademiliv returns with more information.

Weeks 36 and 37 (from August 31, until September 11) the food truck Tikka Roti, in addition to its usual selection of Indian and Pakistani dishes, also serves street food from Uruguay. The food truck is open 11 am to 1:30 pm every weekday, at lunchtime in the parking lot outside the Academicum.

On four occasions in October, the monologue “Where is my husband?” by Stadsteatern at Norges Hus (the language is Swedish). The play is about a fully professional prosecutor who gets Alzheimer’s and the moral problems this poses for both his doctors and colleagues. Before each performance, a researcher from the Sahlgrenska Academy gives a lecture on current Alzheimer’s research, invited by the Alzheimer’s Foundation: 8 October Silke Kern, 21 October Henrik Zetterberg, 22 October Henrik Zetterberg, 29 October Ingmar Skoog. Read more and buy tickets: https://stadsteatern.goteborg.se/pa-scen/2020-2021/var-ar-min-man2/

Students admitted to the medical program at the University of Gothenburg and who reads any of the semesters 1-7 can now apply to become a teaching assistant. Service as a teaching assistant is a fixed-term contract at 25 percent of full-time for up to a year, located at one of the institutes of biomedical, clinical sciences, medicine or neuroscience and physiology. The Amanuensis program for medical students is intended to increase the research interest of students and stimulate recruitment to the doctoral program. In the teaching assistant duties included work on a research project in an institution, education and participation in courses and seminars
within the framework of the amanuensis program.
Deadline: September 28, 2020. Access: January 1, 2021. Read more in the ad (Swedish): https://gubox.box.com/s/pj3dzjbxhgmdkmjxdebw6o8hb24cbl03