Published 24 April 2017 On April 18th WINGS hosted a lunch seminar with Emma Hammarlund. Emma is particularly interested in why animals diversified on Earth. During her talk at Wings, Emma spoke about her Eureka moments as a geobiologist (M.Sc. in Biology och Ph.D. i Geochemistry) when exploring the dawn of animal life. She also shared the moment when Ishe realized that she carry implicit gender b

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/wings-lunch-seminar-emma-hammarlund - 2025-04-01

Published 26 April 2017 On April 24th at Gamla biskopshuset, WINGS hosted again the successful workshop entitled 'A toolbox for increased productivity – from efficiency to effectiveness!' The aims of the workshop are 1) to provide new work strategies and to shift the focus from what you are working with and the content to how you are working and the process of your work, and 2) to learn how to red

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/toolbox-increased-productivity-efficiency-effectiveness-0 - 2025-04-01

Published 23 May 2017 On May 19 WINGS hosted a seminar with Roshni Pramanki. Roshni is a risk & safety management professional with a great passion in communicating popular science. She has also been proactive in volunteering for causes. She comes with an international multidisciplinary background in Social Sciences, Engineering and military training with the Indian Air Force. She has worked with

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/seminar-roshni-pramanik - 2025-04-01

Published 12 June 2017 What is the STEM Gender Equality Congress (SGEC) and why is it important for WINGS?The STEM Gender Equality Congress (SGEC) is a two-day conference hosted by Science Impact Ltd. It offers delegates an opportunity to hear from and interact with thought leaders in gender equality in STEM.Attended by leading researchers, policy makers, equality staff, the private sector, academ

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/wings-stem-gender-equality-congress - 2025-04-01

Published 23 June 2017 2017 YEAR OF FEAR Our annual conference will be held in the fall at Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas museum) in central Lund and will be focused on how 2017 has been a turbulent year. For more details and registration form please see http://www.wings.lu.se/wings-annual-conference-2017! Please visit our website and facebook page often as several updates m

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/wings-annual-conference-2017 - 2025-04-01

Published 1 August 2017 The STEM Gender Equality Congress (SGEC) is a two-day conference hosted by Science Impact Ltd. It offers delegates an opportunity to hear from and interact with thought leaders in gender equality in STEM.Attended by leading researchers, policy makers, equality staff, the private sector, academic staff, government representatives and NGOs, the congress offers a perfect oppor

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/stem-gender-equality-congress-2017 - 2025-04-01

Published 12 September 2017 2017 YEAR OF FEAR   WINGS annual conference was held in 30th of August at Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art (Skissernas museum) in central Lund. The focus of the conference was on how 2017 has been a turbulent year. Many great and inspirational speakers were there to share their points of view on what challenges we face as society and academics in most of the ho

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/2017-year-fear - 2025-04-01

Published 12 September 2017 WINGS sponsored WorkshopLead to succeed: Tools to deal with your futureWe invite you all to participate in an interactive workshop focusing on emotional intelligence and self leadership. You will be able to discuss, share and work together for your next step in your career practising self leadership.  We will focus on - What is self-leadership? Why is it important to us

https://www.wings.lu.se/article/wings-sponsored-workshop - 2025-04-01

Published 5 December 2016 The second workshop arranged by VBE researchers covered different aspects of VBE in law. Legal scholars as well as practitioners of law talked on topics such as the individual judge's approach to VBE, VBE as a critical legal threshold, the legal requirements concerning untested methods in medicine, and more. The talks are collected in this short publication.

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-law-publication-workshop-lund - 2025-04-01

Published 24 February 2017 22 mars är det återigen dags för ett halvdagsseminarium i Lund om VBE inom ett specifikt verksamhetsområde. Denna gång är det miljövård som står i fokus. Vari består den evidens som policybeslut om miljön vilar på, och som ligger till grund för praktisk miljövård i våra regioner och kommuner? Hur skaffar man den nödvändiga evidensen? Hur bedömer en rättsinstans om tillrä

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-i-miljovard - 2025-04-01

Published 3 March 2017 Nils-Eric och Annika är intervjuade i var sin artikel om risker och beslut. Aktuellt om vetenskap & hälsa produceras som ett samarbete mellan Medicinska fakulteten vid Lunds universitet, Malmö högskola och sjukvårdsförvaltningarna inom Region Skåne. En fysisk publikation utkommer två gånger om året och artiklar publiceras fortlöpande på webbplatsen. Två av de senaste artikla

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbeforskare-intervjuade-i-aktuellt-om-vetenskap-halsa - 2025-04-01

Published 4 April 2017 Three new articles from VBE researchers will soon be accessible from the VBE website: Nils-Eric Sahlin and Lena Wahlberg in Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift, Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fischhoff in PNAS and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Annika Wallin et al. in Medical Decision Making. In "Om icke vedertagna behandlingsmetoder och kravet på vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet.", p

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/recently-published-vbe-articles - 2025-04-01

Published 5 April 2017 European Comission President Jean-Claude Juncker has renewed the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, EGE, and has appointed 15 distuinguished scholars as members. One of these is our own Nils-Eric Sahlin. In a short interview (in Swedish) with the Lund University communicator Johanna Sandahl, Nils-Eric describes the role of EGE and his own role within t

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/nils-eric-sahlin-appointed-member-ege - 2025-04-01

Published 5 May 2017 Baruch Fischhoff from CMU in Pittsburgh, the Howard Heinz University Professor, and member of the VBE program, has been elected to National Academy of Sciences. It is a great honor and we all at the VBE program heartily congratulate him! You can read more about Baruch's achievements and about the National Academy of Sciences here.

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/baruc-fischhoff-new-member-national-academy-sciences - 2025-04-01

Published 9 May 2017 Den 26 april medverkade Annika i Vetandets Värld i Sveriges Radio, i ett program om intuition. Annika, som alla följare av VBE-programmet vet, är kognitionsvetare och hon forskar bland annat om vardagsbeslut. I Vetandets Värld diskuterar hon och Paul Hemeren - kongnitionsvetare från högskolan i Skövde - intuition och beslutsfattande med Ylva Carlqvist Warnborg. Programmet kan

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/annika-wallin-i-vetandets-varld - 2025-04-01

Published 13 July 2017 Workshop i Lund 25 september 2017 Vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet är ett begrepp som förekommer i många sammanhang, bland annat i olika lagtexter och regleringar. I hälso- och sjukvården har begreppet spelat roll sedan slutet av 1800-talet och vi hittar det numera både i patientlagen och patientsäkerhetslagen. Men idag har samma termer smugit sig in i andra lagar och regle

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/vbe-politik - 2025-04-01

Published 30 October 2017 Recently Barry successfully defended his thesis "Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life: Preference Aggregation, Exclusion, and Public Policy" at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US. Barry's own description of the thesis follows: The dissertation provides a normative, descriptive, and prescriptive analysis of the design of societal-preference based health-re

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/congratulations-barry-dewitt-phd - 2025-04-01

Published 12 February 2018 We congratulate Johannes today, February 12, on his fiftieth birthday! Bild: Sten Anttila Johannes was celebrated by VBE colleagues and other friends last Friday. He was then presented with a festschrift to his honour with contributions from the VBE collaborators.The theme of the book is quite naturally VBE, from different angles. A flipbook version can be found here, an

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/celebrating-johannes - 2025-04-01

Published 5 April 2018 We welcome Dr. Astrid Kause, from Leeds University, as a new member of the VBE programme! Dr. Kause holds a joint research position at the Centre for Decision Research and the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds and at the University of Lund. Her research focuses on individuals' perceptions of uncertain scientific knowledge, in particular related to

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/new-member-vbe-programme - 2025-04-01

Published 23 August 2018 Under Almedalsveckan anordnade FAMNA - Riskorganisationen för idéburen välfärd - en serie seminarier om ämnen såsom upphandling respektive evidens. Vid seminariet "Vad är evidens - egentligen?" som hölls 4 juli talade Sten om SBUs arbete med evidensutvärdering och satt med i  efterföljande paneldiskussion.De frågor som diskuterades var följande: Hur väl stämmer den evidens

https://www.vbe.lu.se/article/sten-anttila-pa-almedalsveckan-2018-english-below - 2025-04-01