Month: May 2017

20 – Making high-quality pulp from trees

In this podcast, we are digging deeper into the world of pulp and paper. Pulp is generally produced from wood and has a significant impact on our everyday life: we are dependent on the wide range of products that are made from it such as paper, textiles and personal care products. Raghu Deshpande tells us about his PhD thesis “The initial phase of sodium sulfite pulping of softwood: A comparison of different pulping options“, in which he tried to find the perfect recipe to produce high-quality pulp from softwood. His focus has been on sulfite pulping, which is more competitive than Kraft pulping when producing dissolving grade pulp with biorefinery applications.

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19 – How to make mobile health systems secure and privacy-preserving

Information security and privacy are vital to achieve high quality healthcare services. In this podcast we dig deeper into this issue together with Leonardo Horn Iwaya who has studied how to make Mobile Health (mHealth) systems secure and privacy-preserving. He tells us about the ever-increasing tendency of using mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones, sensors, smartwatches) to support medical and public health and the problems that come along with it due to failures in addressing security and privacy issues. After listening to this podcast you will also know more about the design of security and privacy enhancing technologies for mHealth, specially in Mobile Data Collection Systems, in which traditional paper forms are replaced by a mobile application for collecting and reporting health-related data used for public programs such as health surveys and surveillance. If you want to know more you can read his licentiate thesis here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-46982

 

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18 – Regionen och EU?

Hur styrs egentligen den Europeiska unionen och vilken roll har regioner och kommuner i EU:s beslutsprocesser?  Magnus Lindh har i sin avhandling ”Regionen och EU?” tittat närmare på vilka uppfattningar och attityder regionala aktörer Västsverige har till regionalt handlande i EU-relaterade frågor. Han berättar i podden om diskussionerna kring nedläggningen av West Sweden som var ett regionalt representationskontor i Bryssel som uppfattats som framgångsrikt. Det överraskande beslutet att lägga ned kontoret utgör avhandlingens studieobjekt. Magnus berättar i podden hur bland annat kunskap och erfarenhet om EU-arbete påverkar regionernas aktivitet i EU frågor.

Följ med i hans berättelse och ta reda på om och varför regioner blivit mer politiskt aktiva inom EU under senare år. Här kan du läsa hela avhandlingen som fulltext.

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