Lectures

Health on campus offers inspiring lectures for students and staff of Umeå university.

Drop in activities

Activities with pre-registration

Lecture programme 17 September 2025

The program offers lectures live in Aula Nordica, live online and pre-recorded digital lectures. No pre-registration required, welcome!

The website will be updated during week 36.

Aula Nordica

Physical activity and health – plenty of trends, but what do we actually know?

Lecturer: Patrik Wennberg
Time: 11:30-12:00
Local: Aula Nordica
Language: Swedish

Trends in physical activity and health come and go. One minute, being sedentary is as dangerous as smoking, and the next, you should be doing short, high-intensity workouts. However, research takes time, and clear answers often only emerge long after something has become a trend.

In this lecture, Patrik will take you through some of the trends that have been researched in recent decades. What has research taught us? What research questions are relevant today?

Patrik Wennberg is a professor at Umeå University and a specialist in general medicine. He has been conducting research in physical activity and health for over 20 years.

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Brain stretching - a creative workout for innovative thinking and health!

Lecturer: Katarina Gospic
Local: Aula Nordica
Time: 12:05-12:55
Language: Swedish

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”

During this lecture, you will get to know your brain through experiments and begin to think about how AI and feelings and behaviour. You can think of it as a form of brain stretching – a mental workout that, just like physical activity, strengthens both well-being and resilience.

Katarina Gospic is a doctor, physiologist and has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. She is co-founder of the AI company Edsvärd, which creates intelligence for the built environment. Through her lectures and books, she gives people tools to
manage information overload, make better decisions and create sustainable change. Katarina has received several prestigious awards, including the Swedish Mensa Award, has been a summer speaker on the P1 radio channel, and has
lectured at the UN headquarters in Bonn.

Lecture live online

Malin Jonsson, psykolog vid Studenthälsan, Studentcentrum, vid Umeå universitet.

From pressure and stress to desire and will!

Lecturer: Malin Jonsson, Student Health Service
Time: 09:00-10:00
Link: Zoom
Language: Swedish

A digital lecture on how to understand and manage performance anxiety and self-critical thoughts to be in better shape in the long run, both physically and mentally.

The lecture is given by Malin Jonsson, a licensed psychologist
from Student Health Service.

The lecture is primarily aimed at students.

Åsa Miemois, hälsoutvecklare Falck Företagshälsovård

Mental fitness for a sustainable everyday life

Lecturer: Åsa Miemois, Falck occupational healthcare
Time: 10:00-11:00
Link: Teams
Language: Swedish

Feeling stressed sometimes is part of everyday life, but if
you go too long and too often without giving yourself the
time and space you need to recover, it could be harmful and
impact your health.

Åsa Miemos is a health developer at Falck and lectures on recovery, why it is important, and how we can learn to understand when our bodies react to stress and when we recover. What does mental fitness mean, how can it help us in our everyday lives, and how do we influence it?

The lecture is aimed at both students and employees.

Lecture available online

Pre-recorded lectures are available 17-19 September.

Tips and tricks – food for health and exercise

Lecturer: EwaCarin Sehlstedt

Language: Swedish
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Based on the latest Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, this lecture focuses on food, health and the environment, and the differences between athletes and non-athletes. It also provides tips and tricks to help us all incorporate better eating habits in our day-to-day lives.

EwaCarin Sehlstedt is a licensed dietician at the Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science.

The all-important sleep

Lecturer: Maria Nordin, Department of Psychology

Language: Swedish
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We do it every night. It is wonderful when it works, but annoying and stressful when it doesn’t. Sleep is a necessary elixir of life that needs to be properly managed to keep us in balance so we can live a healthy life and perform at the level we want. This lecture is about just that, sleep.

Maria Nordin is a docent in psychology at the Department of Psychology at Umeå University.

Mushroom knowledge

Lecturer: Jon Granbom

Language: English
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This lecture provides an introduction to mushrooms. Mushroom specialist Jon Granbom will discuss some of the most common edible mushrooms and give advice on what to keep in mind when picking mushrooms. The lecture also covers the basics of species identification and tips on how to distinguish edible species from similarlooking species. Finally, Jon will discuss how to get the most out of mushrooms, from cleaning and storage to drying and cooking.

Jon Granbom is a representative of the association Svampkonsulternas Riksförbund, Region Norr.

Brief information about the right of public access

Language: English
Length of movie: 2:37 minutes

Brief informational video in English. How can we access and how can we enjoy Swedish nature?

Satish Strömberg is an IT educationalist at Humlab and former chair of the Swedish outdoor association Friluftsfrämjandet Umeå. During Health on Campus, he will present a short informational video about the fantastic Swedish right of public access.

Nordic wild ice skating and ice safety

Language: English
Movie length: 14:20 minutes

Satish Strömberg is an IT educator at Humlab and former chairman of Friluftsfrämjandet Umeå. During Health on Campus, he offers a short informational film about long-distance skates and ice sweat/ice safety.

Welcome to contact

Pernilla Eriksson Head of unit

Email

+46 90 786 55 29

Latest update: 2025-08-21