POPULAR SCIENCE. This year’s Soapbox Science event during the International Science Festival Gothenburg can only be described as a splendid success. An estimated total of 300 people or so stopped to watch and listen during the sessions in Nordstan, where brief presentations were being given by women researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. Soapbox Science is a British notion, inspired by Speakers’ Corner in London.…
Josefin Larsson winner in the competition Three Minute Thesis
DOCTORAL STUDENT. Josefin Larsson, PhD student at the Institute of clinical sciences, won won the People’s Choice award in the Three Minute Thesis competition, recently held during the International Science Festival in Gothenburg. She also got to share tha award in the category ‘The jury’s favourite’ with Tjeerd Fokkens, PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. The competition requires doctoral students to present the subject…
New chance to speak up on research in Gothenburg
COLLABORATION. After last year’s successful Soapbox Science event during the International Science Festival Gothenburg, another is now coming up in April. Women and non-binary researchers in STEMM here in the city can sign up to give their presentations. Soapbox Science is a British notion inspired by Speakers’ Corner in London. Four at a time for one hour each, standing on wooden “soapboxes”, the researchers present their work. Every prepared, 15-minute…
Agnes Wold gives answers about the corona in the podcast Akademiliv (in Swedish)
Now you can hear the recording of the podcast Akademiliv from the live performance on stage in Nordstan during the Science Festival in Gothenburg. The section focuses on covid, and is about infection, disease and vaccines. Participating are Agens Wold, professor of clinical bacteriology at the University of Gothenburg and communications officers Margareta Gustafsson Kubista and Elin Lindström. Listen to the episode here (in Swedish): https://soundcloud.com/sahlgrenskaakademin/agnes-wold-om-corona
Skolbarn med rätt att fråga
Varför får man håll? Varför är vi kittliga? Varför måste barn borsta tänderna? Många kluriga frågor blev det när mellanstadieelever fick chansen att ställa dem till panelen på Sahlgrenska akademin.