SWE-REG Autumn web conference 2021
“How to conduct successful interdisciplinary research using national registers”
28th October: 09.00-15.30 On Zoom
Program
Forenoon session
Introduction
9:00 – Opening remarks from Jonas Björk, Maria Brandén and Poorna Anand (moderator)
Key-note talk
9:05 – 10:05
Title: What is successful interdisciplinary research collaboration, why is it difficult, and how can it be easier?
Key-note speaker: Gemma Carr, Coordinator: Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems, and TU Wien Water Risk and Security Research Cluster
Coffee break (25 minutes) on Zoom breakout rooms (with discussions between participants about how the keynote talk topic can be applied in your research setting)
10:05 – 10:30
Oral presentations
10:30 – 10:50
Title: Heterogeneous effects of a Swedish schooling reform: a GxE approach Speaker: Rafael Ahlskog, Uppsala University
10:50 – 11:10
Title: Cost-effectiveness for prostate cancer testing: bridging disciplines Speaker: Mark Clements, Karolinska Institutet
Leg stretcher
11:20 – 11:40
Title: Introducing NordInt.net: combining network-science and register data in the study of ethnic integration in Denmark, Finland and Sweden
Speaker: Carl Nordlund, Linköping University
11:40 – 12:00
Title: Long-term survival after sleeve gastrectomy versus gastric bypass in a bi-national population-based cohort study
Speaker: Dag Holmberg, Karolinska Institutet
Lunch (55 minutes) 12:00 – 12:55
Afternoon session
Parallel flash presentations
Group A 13:00 – 14:00
Flash presentation A1
13:00 – 13:15
Title: Occupational risks, living conditions and lack of adequate information – An interview study among foreign-born workers in high-risk occupations for COVID-19
Speaker: Mia Söderberg, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Flash presentation A2
13:15 – 13:30
Title: The effects of cash transfers on poverty, health and wellbeing: evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment 2017- 2018
Speaker: Miska Simanainen, Stockholm University
Flash presentation A3
13:30 – 13:45
Title: Understanding the relationship between education and attitudes toward immigration: evidence and implications from Swedish twin data
Speaker: Qinya Feng, Uppsala University
Flash presentation A4
13:45 – 14:00
Title: Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy (link to poster)
Speaker: Yuliya Leontyeva, Karolinska Institutet
Group B 13:00 – 14:00
Flash presentation B1
13:00 – 13:15
Title: Life expectancy in patients cured for oesophageal cancer compared to the background population
Speaker: Ellinor Lundberg, Karolinska Institutet
Flash presentation B2
13:15 – 13:30
Title: Modelling multiple time-scales with flexible parametric survival models Speaker: Nurgul Batyrbekova, Karolinska Institutet
Flash presentation B3
13:30 – 13:45
Title: THE STROKE-PARADOX – Patients decision making processes to seek emergency medical care for symptoms of stroke (link to poster)
Speaker: Jenny Andersson, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Flash presentation
B4 13:45 – 14:00
Title: Deep learning prediction models based on EHR trajectories: A systematic review Speaker: Ali Amirahmadi, Halmstad University
Coffee break (25 minutes) 14:00 – 14:25
Panel discussion
14:25 – 15:25
Title: How to conduct successful interdisciplinary research
Moderator: Maria Brandén, Deputy-chair SWE-REG, Associate Professor, Director, Institute for Analytical Sociology
Members:
Gemma Carr, Coordinator: Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems, and TU Wien Water Risk and Security Research Cluster
Fredrik Liljeros, Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University
Karin Modig, Research group leader and an Associate Professor at the division of Epidemiology at IMM, KI
Anita Berglund, Ass. Professor of Epidemiology Unit of Epidemiology, SINGS
Summary and Wrap-up
15:25 – 15:30 – Jonas Björk, Maria Brandén and Poorna Anand (moderator).