Maths and IT in Society

“Immigrants, we get the job done!” says Alexander Hamilton in the Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award winner musical Hamilton. In this last blog post we will try to establish some parallels from other immigration studies and maybe extrapolate some of the conclusions to foreign PhD students.. Immigration, Aliens Act 2021 and Sweden Impact…

In the previous blogs, we highlighted what makes Sweden an attractive place for foreign PhD students to pursue their PhD study and showed some statistics on research done by foreign students at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. In this third blog, we will try to highlight the socio-economic scenario in which recent PhD…

Having established Sweden as an attractive destination for foreign students to pursue a PhD, an interesting follow up is to see their contribution to Swedish research. This blog post focuses on a case study at the Department of Information Technology here at Uppsala University to have an overview of their work, highlighting the importance of…

How can maths and computer science students make the world a better place? This isn’t an easy question to answer, not least because it is hard to ever to be sure that your actions lead to good. And it isn’t clear whether or not we are best placed to do good. But during the autumn…

The goal of our project is to make grade 7-9 students more interested in mathematics. To that end, we have created a video with an accompanying interactive blog post. In the video, we explain the essence of how machine learning works and how it can be used to help doctors discover heart attacks from patient…

I den här första delen av en serie på fem delar kommer jag att kort introducera vad en könsidentitetsutredning är och hur den sitter ihop med svensk lagstiftning, vem som går igenom den och varför.

The government in Sweden recently changed the law, making it more difficult for foreign nationals completing their PhD in Sweden to stay and work. This is the first in a series of articles where we are going to look at how the number of international doctoral students has increased in Sweden; how they contribute to…

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. But what if we told you that you have been fooled multiple times and you probably have not realised it yet? And who is to blame for all of this? Is it our family? Our friends? Ourselves? The answer to the question is…

I seriens andra inlägg resonerar jag om processen att få tillgång till könsbekräftande vård som en pipeline och försöker konstatera hur många som rör sig genom de olika könsbekräftande åtgärderna (inklusive de juridiska) med hjälp av offentlig statistik.

I den här serien presenterar jag min egen enkätstudie.