NYFIKEN

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NYFIKEN is a podcast about research. We want to make research available to everyone, through podcasts and articles meant for a general audience. We aim to create a complete picture of research done in Sweden, in all fields, by highlighting the diversity and complexity of work done by PhD students. NYFIKEN features podcast conversations about the research of recent PhD graduates. Find us at our webpage nyfiken.co

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Ep 23: Communicating climate action: Combining action repertoires and linguistic repertoires in social movement message construction

Jan 16 2023 25 mins

Sol Agin has a PhD degree from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Karlstad University. Sol's work was in media studies, dealing with the communication of climate action. She looked at message construction by, and about, social movements, and at the ways in which action and language combine into the message. You can find Sol’s thesis here. You can contact Sol about he

Ep 22: Geo-aesthetical discontent : Svalbard, the guide and post-future essayism

Nov 07 2022 31 mins

Eva la Cour has a PhD from the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. Her artistic research project explores different imaginaries of the Arctic. She uses artistic practices such as essayistic film experimentation with collaborative live editing and engages with the role of guide to pursue a shift away from the solitary author figure to a more

Ep 21: Renewable Heat on Demand

Oct 03 2022 26 mins

Silvia Trevisan has a PhD from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. You can find the episode about Silvia’s research here.During her PhD she worked on building, characterizing, and optimizing devices for storing heat, or thermal energy. Her project focused on heat generated from renewable sources, and it also had a focus on making the storage device itself from sus

Ep 20: Improving neonatal survival in East Africa: Analysis of maternal service utilization, effectiveness of care and risk factors for neonatal mortality in Kenya, Uganda

Feb 03 2022 30 mins

Malachi Ochieng Arunda has a PhD from Lund university, from the Department of Clinical Science in the Faculty of Medicine. During his PhD he researched indirect factors connected to neonatal mortality, in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, looking in particular at how access to care influences neonatal outcomes.You can find Malachi's thesis here. You can contact Malachi about his re

Ep. 19: Deliberating value: On the theory and practice of valuation of nature from neoclassical to ecological economics

Nov 29 2021 32 mins

Lina Isacs has a background in Economics and holds a PhD degree in Planning and decision analysis from KTH, the School of Architecture and the Built Environment. During her PhD, she worked on questions about monetary valuation of nature, touching on broader meta-theoretical issues concerning neoclassical economics and ecological economics.

Ep 18: Quantum Chemical Modelling of Enzymatic and Organometallic Reactions

Oct 27 2021 31 mins

Ferran Planas has a PhD degree from Stockholm University, from the Department of Chemistry. For his PhD he worked in computational chemistry, modelling reactions with the use of Density Functional Theory.

Ep. 17: Clues to galaxy evolution from spectroscopic observations of Galactic centre stars

Sep 27 2021 34 mins

Brian Thorsbro has a PhD degree from Lund University, from the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics. During his PhD, he worked on stellar spectroscopy, studying stars in the Galactic centre.

Ep 16: Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya

Apr 19 2021 35 mins

Johannes Theodor Aalders holds a PhD degree from the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg. You can find the episode about Theo's research here. In his doctoral research, he worked within Environmental Social Studies, using artistic means to find out how people anticipate the future of a mega infrastructure project in Kenya.

Ep 15: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics at the microscopic scales

Mar 22 2021 25 mins

Sreekanth Manikandan has a PhD degree from Stockholm University, from the Department of Physics.During his PhD, he worked in the thermodynamics of microscopic systems, looking at non-equilibrium systems in particular.

Ep 14: Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Opportunities for Prevention

Mar 08 2021 33 mins

NYFIKEN is a podcast about research in Sweden. It is a series of interviews with PhD students, who discuss both the results of their research and their evolution as researchers. New episodes every two weeks. Find us at our webpage nyfiken.coQiaoli Wang has a PhD degree from Karolinska Institute, from the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery.During her PhD, she worked with t

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