RESEARCH COMMUNICATION. In the latest episode of the Akademiliv podcast (in Swedish), you will hear Anna Grimby Ekman, professor of health science statistics, whose research is based on large amounts of data with the goal of improving the rehabilitation of people with pain. The conversation is about how researchers measure pain, why it is so important that people with pain are partners in research and how research can help care…
Akademiliv podcast – Carolina Klüft and Mats Börjesson in conversation about athletes’ limits
PODCAST. All these new records – we run faster, jump higher and lift heavier. But where is the limit to how good an elite athlete can be? What pieces of the puzzle must fall into place to reach absolute top form? And how is research conducted on performance development? You can find the Akademiliv podcast (in Swedish) on Spotify or other platforms for podcasts, e.g. Soundcloud. On GU Play there…
New episode of Akademiliv podcast – Autism overdiagnosed, Christopher Gillberg warns
PODCAST. Stop over diagnosing autism. Start looking at “the whole person”. These are messages from Professor Christopher Gillberg, a leading expert in the field, in a podcast from Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. Here you can listen to the podcast with Christopher Gillberg (in Swedish, 41 minuter): https://soundcloud.com/sahlgrenskaakademin/christopher-gillberg-om-utvecklingen-for-boktstavsdiagnoser The interview is conducted by Elin Lindström and Margareta Gustafsson Kubista, the Communications Department at Sahlgrenska Academy’s Office.
New podcast episode (in Swedish): First midwifery program on university level in the Congo
PODCAST. Throughout her life, Marie Berg, midwife and professor of nursing at the University of Gothenburg, has been deeply committed to women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hear her story in Akademiliv’s podcast. Together with other colleagues, Marie Berg is now establishing the first midwifery training at university level at the Université Evangélique en Afrique, in Bukavu. The fact that Marie and her husband Urban have had the…
New episode of the Swedish podcast Akademiliv – with diabetes researcher Emanuel Fryk
PODCAST. Guest in this episode of the podcast Akademiliv is Emanuel Fryk, a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg and a doctor at a health center, who will soon be defending his dissertation which is specifically about the protein galectin-1 in type 2 diabetes. The podcast is in Swedish. For over a hundred years, we have known that type 2 diabetes can lead to complications and that the disease…