RESEARCH COMMUNICATION. During the Science Festival, a total of 18 female and non-binary researchers will step onto wooden boxes and present on three occasions in three different locations. Here is the full program for this year’s Soapbox Science – come and listen! Tuesday 16 April – Auktionsverket Kulturarena 18:50-19:30 Elena Naumovska: Moment of science: decoding the materials world Amparo Jimenez Quero: From waste to value, transforming industrial side-streams into high…
Basking in Soapbox Science’s success
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