How can we make sure the practices of disseminating research findings evolve with the times?

The primary means of dissemination is publication. And while the contents of scientific publications have changed a lot over the last 100 years, the methods and structure of publication have seen relatively few changes, and most of them only in the last 10 years.

Rethinking these methods was the theme of last year's DDEA Postdoc Summit Challenge.

The pressure to publish is especially intense for early-career researchers, so they themselves were invited to rethink the approaches to scientific publishing in the Challenge. 

The Summit participants' solutions include standardised procedures for accessibility and reproducibility, a database for peer reviewers, multifaceted metrics for determining academic credit, a reproducibility framework, and responsible use of AI.

But what might a professional in scientific publishing say to these proposed solutions?

In this episode, we once again hand the microphone to postdoc Christopher Lewis, as he interviews the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Diabetologia, Hindrik Mulder.

Listen, as different solutions for challenging scientific dissemination put forth by early-career researchers are taken up for debate with an expert in scientific publishing.

Episode info

Guest

• Hindrik Mulder, Editor-in-Chief of Diabetologia and Professor at Lund University

Host

•  Christopher Lewis, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen

Produced by

Gretchen Repasky, Education & Networking Manager, Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Published by 

Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Editor

Nikolai Rosler – Rosler Productions


You can find additional information about our podcasts on Podcasts | Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (ddeacademy.dk)

Did you know that half a million children die every year of a completely treatable disease? Can you imagine what it would be like to be pregnant or have children in a low-income country where this disease is prevalent?

This is the reality for many people all over the world. And while it is indeed preventable, malaria kills millions each year because of sparse access to health care.

Danish postdoc Line Hjort saw the extent of this when she went to a rural village in Tanzania. There, she joined a local research team studying the impact of malaria on children and pregnant women, such as malaria during pregnancy possibly leading to diabetes later in the child’s life.

Through Line’s story, we are given a tour of the Tanzanian healthcare system, where beds are scarce and access to water even scarcer. More than a third of the pregnant women in the area had malaria during pregnancy. Line and her colleagues saw an extremely high participation rate in their study, despite it being cumbersome to participate. But for parents, this was not just a study – this was a chance for healthcare. And for Line, there were a lot of important cultural perspectives to bring home to Denmark.

Join us for the second episode of Postdocs Talking recorded live at a DDEA event at Folkemødet (The Danish People’s Meeting) 2023.

About Folkemødet
Folkemødet (The People’s Meeting) is a democracy festival in June on the Danish island of Bornholm. Citizens, politicians, NGOs, businesses, and many more meet up for open debates, dialogues, and talks on society and democracy. The festival is inspired by the Swedish counterpart, Almedalsveckan.

DDEA at Folkemødet 2023
DDEA organised a storytelling event, inviting two researchers to tell their science stories. The first speaker was an American who came to Denmark to do research for the Danish society. The second speaker was a Dane who went outside of Denmark to do research for an African society. The name of this event was “Worlds Apart – Two Stories of Health Science for Society”. This is the second of these talks.

Episode info

Speaker

• Line Hjort, BRIDGE postdoctoral fellow at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen

Host

• Gretchen Repasky, Education & Networking Manager, Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Produced by

Gretchen Repasky, Education & Networking Manager, Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Published by 

Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Editor:

Nikolai Rosler – Rosler Productions 

Thanks:

Public Speaking Coach Adam Montandon from Speakers Impact Network

Katharina Herzog, Novo Nordisk A/S

Morten Dall, University of Copenhagen

Christopher Lewis, University of Copenhagen

You can find additional information about our podcasts on Podcasts | Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (ddeacademy.dk)

How many child development issues go unnoticed in the flurry of short doctor's appointments and limited home visits? How do you properly detect and identify mental health issues in adolescents living with chronic disease?

Maybe it’s time to prioritise and optimise a sometimes overlooked screening tool in clinical practice: Questionnaires.

MD and PhD Kevin Mark’s talk “Missing Maria, Identifying Anna” revolves around implementing and improving identification systems for developmental and mental health in childhood and adolescence.

In Kevin’s talk, we are first introduced to Maria – a child whose special needs were discovered much later than what was ideal. Then, we are introduced to Anna, an adolescent who got lucky when a clever doctor recommended a specific questionnaire that helped identify her disordered eating involving her type 1 diabetes.

Join us for the first episode of Postdocs Talking recorded live at a DDEA event at Folkemødet (The Danish People’s Meeting) 2023.

About Folkemødet
Folkemødet (The People’s Meeting) is a democracy festival in June on the Danish island of Bornholm. Citizens, politicians, NGOs, businesses, and many more meet up for open debates, dialogues, and talks on society and democracy. The festival is inspired by the Swedish counterpart, Almedalsveckan.

DDEA at Folkemødet 2023
DDEA organised a storytelling event, inviting two researchers to tell their science stories. The first speaker was an American who came to Denmark to do research for the Danish society. The second speaker was a Dane who went outside of Denmark to do research for an African society. The name of this event was “Worlds Apart – Two Stories of Health Science for Society”. This is the first of these two talks. 

Speaker

•  Kevin Marks, MD, PhD from Aarhus University, KBU doctor at Odense University Hospital

Host

•  Gretchen Repasky, Education & Networking Manager, Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

 
Produced by

Gretchen Repasky, Education & Networking Manager, Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Published by 

Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy

Editor

Nikolai Rosler – Rosler Productions 

Thanks:

Public Speaking Coach Adam Montandon from Speakers Impact Network

Katharina Herzog, Novo Nordisk A/S

Morten Dall, University of Copenhagen

Christopher Lewis, University of Copenhagen


You can find additional information about our podcasts on Podcasts | Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (ddeacademy.dk)