Interdisciplinary pedagogy in higher education : Proceedings from Lund University's Teaching and Learning Conference 2019

This is the proceedings volume from the 7th biannual Teaching and Learning Conference at Lund University. The conference theme, Interdisciplinary pedagogy in higher education, is very timely as we see a steady increase, not only in interdisciplinary research and full teaching programmes, but also in new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary courses and components in more traditional disciplinary education at Lund University. The conference highlighted some of the many challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary education where educators meet students with different disciplinary, cultural and geographical profiles. In this volume, the authors share the thoughts, experiences and learning they presented at the conference

Disrupted circadian oscillations in type 2 diabetes are linked to altered rhythmic mitochondrial metabolism in skeletal muscle

Funding: The authors are supported by grants from the AstraZeneca SciLifeLab Research Programme, Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF14OC0011493, and NNF17OC0030088), Swedish Diabetes Foundation (DIA2018-357), Swedish Research Council (2015-00165 and 2018-02389), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2018-0094), the Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes at Karolinska Institutet (2009-1068), the Stockholm County Council (SLL20170159), and the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science (P2019-0140). B.M.G. was supported by fellowships from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF19OC0055072), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, an Albert Renold Travel Fellowship from the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes, and an Eric Reid Fund for Methodology from the Biochemical Society. N.J.P. and L.S.-P. were supported by an Individual Fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission: 704978 and 675610). X.Z. and K.A.E. were supported by NIH R01AR066082. N.J.P. was supported by grants from the Sigurd och Elsa Goljes Minne and Lars Hierta Memorial Foundations (Sweden). We acknowledge the Beta Cell in-vivo Imaging/Extracellular Flux Analysis core facility supported by the Strategic Research Program in Diabetes for the usage of the Seahorse flux analyzer. Additional support was received from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen (NNF18CC0034900). The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research is an independent research center at the University of Copenhagen, partially funded by an unrestricted donation from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. We acknowledge the Single-Cell Omics platform at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research for technical and computational expertise and support. Schematics are created with BioRender.com.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Anonymiserade examinationer : En problematiserande forskningsöversikt

I denna rapport undersöker jag vad studier och diskussioner av anonymisering av examinationer inom högre utbildning ger vid handen. Idag finns att tillgå resultaten av ett antal större studier, vilka med bred empiri undersöker konsekvenserna av anonymisering och hur det (eventuellt) har påverkat lärares bedömning. Dessa studier har inte kunnat visa på någon signifikant skillnad (eg. minskad bias) i lärares bedömning som kan härledas till huruvida examinationer genomförs anonymiserat eller inte. Däremot, och detta är viktigt, har man pekat på risken för att den personliga och kontextuellt formade kunskapen, tolkandet och reflekterandet, liksom den utvecklande dialogen och den relationsrika högre utbildningen – alltsammans värden som är centrala i humanistiska och teologiska utbildningar –, lätt riskerar att tappas bort i en anonymiserad examinationspraxis. När man idag diskuterar om och hur man eventuellt ska införa anonymisering vid examination är det därför detta nya kunskapsläge man bör utgå ifrån. Jag föreslår att ett sätt att gå framåt, som alternativ till anonymisering, är att i olika fora och ur olika aspekter samtala kring bedömning och examination inom högre utbildning, hur och varför det görs och på vilka grunder, samt hur man på ett bredare plan kan arbeta för att minimera diskriminering – det vill säga genom att öka både lärares och studenters bedömarkompetens

Medieval medical cultures in Sweden - practices and ideas mirrored in materiality : Practices and ideas mirrored in materiality

The poster briefly presents some main traits on how medical practice and understanding changed during the middle ages and renaissance, and how it is mirrored in material culture. A development well on its way during the first half of the middle ages seems to have been interrupted by the Great Death and after that new ideas from abroad were allowed to have a greater influence. A major explanation to this, Bergqvist suggests, is that the earlier knowledge, which was not written down, disappeared to a large extent as the population was reduced. Scholastic knowledge, on the other hand, survived better partly because it was written down, and so was made to replace what had been lost of personal and embodied knowledge.Bergqvist also suggests, with support of archaeological evidence, that medical culture of monastic institutions differed from the surrounding society, and did not spread widely outside the institutions

Medical practice at Swedish Cistercian monasteries

Definitions and understandings of disease are to a large extent culturally dependent, even if there are also biological components to this. While many medieval religious orders nursed an interest for science and knowledge in general, their approach to medicine was complicated by the complex attitude towards illness and the tending of the body within Christendom. Archaeological artifacts from Cistercian monasteries in Sweden reveal that specialized equipment was used for medical care. We find hygienic device and instruments for the treatment of minor wounds as well as medical vessels. Traces of surgical activity are rarer.There are, however, clear differences between male and female institutions. The differences cannot be explained by excavation methods for retrieving finds, by the size of the institutions or socioeconomic backgrounds of their inhabitants. Much as the comprehension of the underlying causes of disease has shifted, so too have the ideas of which kinds of ailments actually need or ought to be cured, and which do not. I suggest that gendered attitudes in religious practice may have affected what kind of surgical, medical and hygienic treatments were expected by, and provided for men and women in monastic institutions. I examine this by looking at medieval monastic material culture in the form of archaeological findings from a number of Swedish Cistercian institutions.An analysis of the material culture from these institutions also reveals clear differences between the (male) monastic institutions and the surrounding society. The specialized equipment found at monastic sites are rarely found outside these milieus (only occasionally in ecclesiastical or aristocratic contexts). This provides cause to question the importance of monastic medical knowledge and practice to the surrounding society. A suggested reason for the assumed limited effect outside the institutions are fundamental differences between indigenous and monastic apprehensions of the body and its ailments

When Bereaved of Everything : Objects from the Concentration Camp of Ravensbrück as Expressions of Resistance, Memory, and Identity

When survivors from the Ravensbrück concentration camp arrived in Sweden in spring 1945, some of the objects they brought with them from the camp were collected and preserved. These are modest in appearance, but were – as oral testimonies show – invaluable in camp. The concentration camp context of obliteration stretches the limits of interpretation of material culture to its extreme. In this article the objects are discussed as expressions of resistance, memory, and identity. These immaterial values were among the most vital coping strategies used by the prisoners against the dehumanization laid upon them by the camp administration. The material culture was central in enabling, upholding, and realizing these