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Eivind Engebretsen

@eivinden.bsky.social
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Dean of Circle U. European University Alliance Ι Professor & Head of the Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT), University of Oslo Ι Medical Humanities Scholar

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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢Our Lancet paper on Ambient scribes as narrative technologies is out! @kirstenostherr.bsky.social @literarti.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ambient scribes as narrative technologies
Ambient scribes, also known as artificial intelligence-powered voice-to-text technology, are widely cited as time-saving tools that reduce administrative burden for clinicians. Yet, in their current u...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Oooh, we're entering the era of academic journals dropping their "qualitative checklists". Well done, Implementation Science. Maybe I'll send you a paper now. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Embracing complexity by reducing rigidity: guiding principles for the intersection of implementation science and qualitative research - Implementation Science
In this editorial we reflect on recent contributions that have focused on how researchers should involve qualitative research in implementation science. Implementation science as a discipline has firm...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The EASL–Lancet Commission reframes sustainable liver health. In this Letter, I argue for deep sustainability: asking not only how we deliver sustainable liver care, but whose liver health we sustain—and at whose cost @tomhemmingk.bsky.social www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016...
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Sustainable hepatology beyond carbon
The second EASL–Lancet Commission on Implementing Sustainable Liver Health in Europe1 represents a change in how hepatology engages with sustainability. The Commission report defines sustainable healt...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If you missed it, you can watch it here: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-sustaina...
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Why Sustainability in Health Care Cannot Be Implemented: From Implementation Failure to Ongoing Mediation
Sustainability in health care is widely framed as a problem of implementation: policies are designed, evidence is assembled, and failure is diagnosed when action does not follow. This lecture challeng...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Looking forward to this guest talk tomorrow by @eivinden.bsky.social for our MSc students, part of the Sustainability in Healthcare module. Join in person or online www.lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...
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Why Sustainability in Health Care Cannot Be Implemented: From Implementation Failure to Ongoing Mediation
Guest Talk by Prof Eivind Engebretsen Sustainability in health care is widely framed as a problem of implementation: policies are designed, evidence is assembled, and failure is diagnosed when action...
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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A clean setup with the #RatsOfConfluence, complete with sticky wall, singing bowl and multicoloured card. Brilliantly timed ahead of Thursday’s Creative Facilitation event www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
We must rethink how we measure pandemic preparedness. Our new paper: www.ijhpm.com/article_4826... Key takeaways on my blog: eivindengebretsen.com/new-paper-on... @helenclarknz.bsky.social
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New paper on grassroots indicators – Eivind Engebretsen
We need to rethink how we measure pandemic preparedness. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a striking gap between how preparedness was measured before the crisis and how countries actually performed durin...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Here’s ten of the best papers I published this year (thread). 1. A rapid systematic review of the UK literature on physician associates. With @martinmckee.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research
Objective To summarise research on the efficacy and safety of UK physician associates and anaesthetic associates in the context of an ongoing policy review. Design Rapid systematic review. Search st...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Same evidence. Different guidelines. Not a science problem—a translation problem. Medicine needs the humanities more than ever. I’m blogging about why👇 @monabaker11.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social #AcademicSky eivindengebretsen.com/why-medicine...
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Why Medicine Needs the Humanities - Eivind Engebretsen
An IVF case highlights how differing guidelines stem from interpretation—and why medical humanities are crucial for meaningful knowledge translation.
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In my latest blog, I share news about @monabaker11.bsky.social and my upcoming book project, 'Beyond the Bedside: Reimagining Narrative Medicine for Knowledge Translation in Reproductive Health', due next year, along with related events @cambridge.org eivindengebretsen.com/%f0%9d%90%81...
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BEYOND THE BEDSIDE: REIMAGINING NARRATIVE MEDICINE FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - Eivind Engebretsen
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. We often talk about “following the science,” yet our KNOWIT team’s research shows that true knowledge translation goes beyond moving...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My brilliant PhD student Hil Vandeskog is defending her thesis today. The thesis - Out of text, out of mind? -explores intertextualities in the domain of “gender” of NGO texts and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Important work! @monabaker11.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🎉I'm excited to announce the launch of our new @circleu.bsky.social Course: Bridging Humanities and Medicine for Sustainable Societal Impact – An Introduction to Translational Medical Humanities #AcademicSky #MedSky @kevinguillaume.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/eivind...
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I'm excited to announce the launch of our new Circle U. | Eivind Engebretsen
I'm excited to announce the launch of our new Circle U. (European University Alliance) Sustainability Module: Bridging Humanities and Medicine for Sustainable Societal Impact – An Introduction to...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🎉Excited to share our new grant on sustainable home-hospital services for immigrants—exploring the boundaries between home, hospital, and hospitality through the philosophies of B Cassin, J Derrida ao. #academicsky @uio.no @uio-oceh.bsky.social @oslomet.bsky.social www.med.uio.no/sustainit/en...
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HOMESICK Project Awarded Major Research Grant - SUSTAINIT – Sustainable Health Unit
We are delighted to announce that the research project
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Our new paper ⬇️⬇️
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Our new paper - Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities in @bmj.com Medical Humanities #AcademicSky #envhum @medicalhumanity12.bsky.social @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities
Healthcare courses typically approach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) education from a ‘translational science’ perspective. Students are taught about ‘evidence-based’ interventions, which are dev...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My new paper "Beyond the Bedside: Re-imagining Narrative Medicine for Knowledge Translation". I argue that narrative processes are crucial at every stage of translational work, from bench to bedside @monabaker11.bsky.social #AcademicSky publications-prairial.fr/encounters-i...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In the «Dean’s Corner» I share the latest developments from the @circleu.bsky.social Open Campus @kevinguillaume.bsky.social @danbanik.bsky.social @beatesjafjell.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.circle-u.eu/news/2025/th...
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The Dean's Corner: Open Campus Status – Looking Forward - Circle U.
How are we building a more connected, future-ready European university? Read Eivind Engebretsen's take on the latest Open Campus development and future outcomes.
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
New paper led by my excellent Dutch colleagues Britt Kraaijeveld Sietse Wieringa & Jet Bussemaker www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How concepts guide policy: an ethnographic study of the meaning making of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare
Concepts, such as value-based healthcare, patient-centered care and integrated care, are used to guide and govern healthcare structures and services. …
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Mette Terp Hoybye @mettehoybye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📣 Come work with us at @interacting-minds.bsky.social to ethnographically explore how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society. International applicants most welcome 🤗 health.au.dk/om-health/le...
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Postdoc in medical anthropology/STS - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus Universitet
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Read about our interdisciplinary sustainability modules for undergraduates across @circleu.bsky.social - incl. @beatesjafjell.bsky.social 's excellent course on Corporate Sustainability Law @kevinguillaume.bsky.social www.circle-u.eu/news/2025/de...
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Developing interdisciplinary sustainability modules - Circle U.
Sustainability challenges today demand creative, cross-cutting solutions – exactly what Circle U. aims to cultivate through its collaborative education initiatives.
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Circle U. @circleu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A Circle U.-funded research network just published in The Lancet Public Health! Their work explores social vs. individual responsibility in health promotion. A great example of interdisciplinary collaboration fostered by Circle U. 👏 Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/mpv8fhyy #AcademicSky #GlobalHealth​
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The responsibility of health: shifting the focus from individuals to systems
Social determinants of health, although widely acknowledged, tend to be poorly translated into policy. Health programme initiatives too often underline individual accountability, which reinforces a fl...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our new comment, co-authored with @circleu.bsky.social colleagues and inspired by conversations at our summer school: The responsibility of health: shifting the focus from individuals to systems - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The responsibility of health: shifting the focus from individuals to systems
Social determinants of health, although widely acknowledged, tend to be poorly translated into policy. Health programme initiatives too often underline individual accountability, which reinforces a fl...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our new paper (with @eivinden.bsky.social) just out: Missed SDG targets: from ‘trying harder’ to engaging critically with paradox and conflict #medsky #episky #academicsky 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Missed SDG targets: from ‘trying harder’ to engaging critically with paradox and conflict
This article explores a radical hypothesis: that our repeated failure to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) signals something inherently paradoxical within the current approach, sugge...
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Beate Sjåfjell @beatesjafjell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Congratulations again to @pattyvillarrubia.bsky.social and co-authors for this important article on #plastic pollution and #planetaryboundaries!
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Hans Fredrik Marthinussen @hfmarthinussen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Lihkku beivvin! Og med ønske om at staten Norge tar seg kraftig sammen - det har vært en dårlig periode med tanke på respekt for det samiske folkets kultur og rettigheter. www.nrk.no/ytring/gratu...
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Gratulerer med dagen!
I dag feires nasjonaldag i hele Sápmi.
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sorry, www.med.uio.no/helsam/engli...
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European Conference on Social Medicine - Institute of Health and Society
The organizing committee is excited to welcome you to Oslo, Norway in June 2025 for a conference gathering colleagues working at the intersection of biomedical science and the social sciences and huma...
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Circle U. @circleu.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Circle U. stands with the students and academic community of the University of Belgrade. We strongly support their engagement and the protection of academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Any attempt to undermine these principles is unacceptable. Read our statement here 👉 tinyurl.com/27ds26br
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Go Nature! Truth to power.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Someone wrote about the island in Fiji where my son Rob lives. Conservation of marine environments must be linked to sustainability of local communities (whose livelihood depends heavily fishing). lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/janu...
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Follow the leader: How the science of migrating fish can build better communities
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Webinar 16 March Impacts of Fracking in North & South America: Resources in English & Spanish organised by Collaborative Health & Environment and featuring contribution by @nvp-tdi.bsky.social healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars... @eivinden.bsky.social @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social
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Impacts of Fracking in North & South America: Resources in English & Spanish
photo credit: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2017Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) poses serious health and environmental hazards. These hazards have been documented and explored in hundreds of peer...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Check out the new blog from Rector Svein Stølen, Vice-Rector Bjørn Stensaker, and me to discover how @circleu.bsky.social and other university alliances are transforming student mobility—and our vision for the Circle U. Open Campus! #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.uio.no/om/aktuelt/r...
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Mobility in New Ways – Circle U. and European University Alliances - Universitetet i Oslo
Circle U. and other university alliances are paving the way for a new form of European collaboration in higher education, where diversity, flexibility, and student engagement are key elements.
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Pleased to announce the panel 'At the Intersection of Reproductive Health and Translation: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and Sustainability', convened by Julie Boéri @eivinden.bsky.social and myself has been accepted at the #IATIS8 conference in Oman
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
As a Circle U. student, you can now study at multiple top universities simultaneously. Read about the Circle U. Open Campus here #AcademicSky www.linkedin.com/pulse/circle...
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This is the Circle U. Open Campus
What is Circle U.? Circle U.
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications with @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social Henry Jones, Jonathan Evans, and Kyung Hye Kim www.monabaker.org/2025/01/03/i... @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social @nvp-tdi.bsky.social
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International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications, Mona Baker
International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications Dates: 23-28 June 2025 Venue: Hong Kong Baptist...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This interesting paper by Esperança Bielsa "puts translation at the centre of an understanding of science, culture and politics and their interrelations in the face of anthropogenic climate change". #AcademicSky #climatesky @monabaker11.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Translation and the climate emergency: A new sociological imagination - Esperança Bielsa, 2024
This article puts translation at the centre of an understanding of science, culture and politics and their interrelations in the face of anthropogenic climate c...
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Cindy Chew MBChB PhD @shiyunzhao.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Re-upping this excellent piece on complexity, values, research, medicine and humanity. Thank you Trish 🙏🏼 Hope you’ve had a good Xmas! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Commentary: Without Values, Complexity is Reduced to Mathematics
This commentary on Sturmberg and Mercuri's paper ‘Every Problem is Embedded in a Greater Whole’ [1] argues that those authors have approached complexity from a largely mathematical perspective, drawi...
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Beate Sjåfjell @beatesjafjell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
'Conceptualising Corporate Sustainability Law': my response to the unsustainability of business as usual, and to the failures of law to secure the contribution of business to sustainability. I welcome comments, questions & suggestions! Freely available @ssrn.bsky.social ssrn.com/abstract=486...
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Conceptualising Corporate Sustainability Law
<p><span>Despite all the talk of sustainability, human societies are still on a certain path towards a very uncertain future. Business in aggregate remains a dr
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Matthew Low @mattlow.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Environmental Physiotherapy: A transformative ecological movement toward planetary health. Our presentation at CSP conference 2024 youtu.be/_AcxVEGTIWY?si… @sanjamaretic.bsky.social @adambjerre.bsky.social @eivinden.bsky.social @msk-pain.bsky.social @jamesholroyd.bsky.social
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12th October - Charter 3 - 09:00 - 10:00
YouTube video by The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Circle U. Open Campus is a digital interuniversity hub connecting nine European universities, providing a one-stop shop for students to access joint opportunities from Alliance partners. Learn more about our achievements in our inaugural year 👇 #AcademicSky www.circle-u.eu/news/2024/se...
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Season greetings and updates from the Open Campus - Circle U.
This year marks a significant advancement for Circle U., as we have launched the new phase of our initiative. A central feature of this phase is the Open Campus, which has already become a cornerstone...
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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Another fantastic set of papers in issue 2 of Encounters in Translation. I especially enjoyed Josh Price's article on translating the thought of Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch publications-prairial.fr/encounters-i...
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2 | 2024 - Translational and narrative epistemologies – Encounters in translation
The second issue of Encounters in translation is a continuation of the special issue "Translational and narrative epistemologies", published in the maiden issue. Both the first and the second issues o...
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Şebnem Susam-Saraeva @sebnemsaraeva.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
First of our two articles on interpreting in maternity care is out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eivinden.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social
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Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity services: perspectives from providers and researchers of both maternity care and translation/interpreting services.
Failing to meet the communication and information needs of childbearing women leaves them unable to provide true informed consent. Lack of control or …
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#AcademicSky #MedSky
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Tom Hemming Karlsen @tomhemmingk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Two days of finalizing the narrative and recommendations of the second EASL @thelancet.bsky.social Commission in Geneva. Now we write the report! @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Did we learn enough during the pandemic to be better prepared next time? Read Prof. Gunnveig Grødeland's SUSTAINIT Blog👇🧪 🛟 #AcademicSky www.med.uio.no/sustainit/en...
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Preventing the next pandemic in a complex world - SUSTAINIT – Sustainable Health Unit
Years of basic research gave us the vaccines that enabled a rapid and effective defence against SARS-CoV-2. Did we learn enough during the pandemic to be better prepared next time? In a world characte...
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monabaker11.bsky.social @monabaker11.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators "The award will be biggest of its kind in Europe & aims to celebrate the work of overlooked & underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI." www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... @eivinden.bsky.social @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social
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Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators
The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AI
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
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Long COVID: a clinical update
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to sever...
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In this Circle U. Lecture, I explore how a translational medical humanities approach can bridge the gap between evidence and action, using SDGs as a key case study. More lectures in the series "Bridging Humanities and Medicine for Societal Impact" are coming! #AcademicSky youtu.be/Ka43MVWpMLk?...
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Translational Health Humanities: Addressing the Challenge of Unimplementability
YouTube video by Circle U. European University Alliance
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Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’ve only been on BlueSky for a few weeks, but it already feels like a breath of fresh air. Genuine, open, and respectful conversations—let’s keep it that way! #AcademicSky
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