Announcement of Research Themes for ACCESS Forum 2022
We are incredibly excited to announce the selected research themes for the 2022 ACCESS Forum in Puenta Arenas, Chile! There was an overwhelming amount of interest in hosting workshops this year and we are grateful to all who have submitted their proposals. The thirteen selected Research Themes represent a wide variety of disciplines and will bring together experts in their fields for focused and fruitful discussions at the Forum.
On May 11, 2022 the Call for Participants in the workshops will open. The nomination process for participants is handled by each ACCESS member institution. Please contact your local ACCESS coordinator for information on how to apply and applicable deadlines.
Below, you can read more information about the thirteen selected Research Themes.
Causes and consequences of ongoing urbanization processes in Sweden and Chile
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities.
Possible site visits: No Information
Keywords: Effects of urbanization, Urban sustainability, Segregation, Housing and place-based policies, Urban health.
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Voltaire Alvarado Peterson, Universidad de Concepción (voalvarado@udec.cl).
Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University (matz.dahlberg@ibf.uu.se)
Comparative eating practices
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities.
Possible site visits: No Information
Keywords: Chile, Climate change; Eating; Health; Sweden.
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Claudia Giacoman, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (cgiacoma@uc.cl)
Nicklas Neuman, Uppsala University (nicklas.neuman@ikv.uu.se)
Crime as a social problem
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Possible site visits: Attend hearing sessions such as "audiencias de control de detención" in a lower criminal court in either Santiago or Punta Arenas, or hearing sessions in a drug treatment court in Santiago.
Keywords: Crime trends, Welfare, Inequality, Policy, Incarceration
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Jeanne Hersant, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (jeanne.hersant@uc.cl)
Felipe Estrada, Stockholm University (felipe.estrada@criminology.su.se)
Food sustainability for global health
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good health and well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable cities, communities, Goal 14: Life below water, and Goal 15: Life on land.
Possible site visits: In Punta Arenas, Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) https://www.inach.cl A front-line research & innovative Center about Antarctic that has been working in diverse sustainability research including food related issues that can amplify this workshop and a potential partner with many national and international universities and research innovative centers all over the world. We have had a zoom meeting on April 2nd with Dr. Marcelo González, chief of the Scientific Department of Chilean Antarctic Institute, who support this on-site visit and also for the participation of INACH researchers, including director, during the Workshop.
Keywords: Food, Transdisciplinarity, Globalization and global health, Nutrition and food sustainability, Food sovereignity
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Marcelo Villalón, Universidad de Chile (mavillal@uchile.cl).
Martin Stafstrom, Lund University (martin.stafstrom@med.lu.se)
From ocean to one health: a collaborative and multisectoral approach against infectious diseases and the antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being, Goal 14: Life Below Water and Goal 15: Life on Land.
Possible site visits: Freshwater salmon facilities and a processing plant in Punta Arenas coordinated with the Magallanes Salmon Farmers' Association (http://salmonicultoresmagallanes.cl/).
Keywords: One Health, aquaculture, antimicrobial resistance, sustainability, food security
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Fernando Mardones, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (femardones@uc.cl)
Edward Moore, Gothenburg University (erbmoore@ccug.se)
Healthy brain ageing and improved therapeutics and regeneration for brain disease
Addressed Sustainable Development Goal: Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Possible site visits: Laboratory visits.
Keywords: Life quality, health economy, autonomy, dementia, novel therapies.
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Romulo Fuentes, Universidad de Chile (romulo@uchile.cl)
Per Petersson, Lund University (Per.Petersson@med.lu.se)
September 2022 Update: Unfortunately, the below research theme has been cancelled at this time.
Human and environmental risk assessment for a sustainable future
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, and Goal 14: Life Below Water.
Possible site visits: On-site visit to a salmon farm in Magallanes (Punta Arenas) and Ministry of the Environment, Government of Chile.
Keywords: Chemical pollution, environmental risk assessment, human health, aquatic ecology, environmental economics.
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Pedro Inostroza, University of Gothenburg (pedro.inostroza@gu.se)
Renato Quiñones Bergeret, Universidad de Concepción (rquinone@udec.cl)
Immunology & heath: A personalized medicine approach
Addressed Sustainable Development Goal: Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Possible site visits: Although not currently in the program, as current travel schedule and participant availability is yet to be determined: In Santiago, previous to the meeting in Punta Arenas, the “Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy” (a Research Center of Excellence that harbors academics and scientists from the PUC, U. Chile and U. Nacional Andres Bello, among other Universities) could offer to host an open symposium with approximately 100 people attending. This seminar could give the participants the opportunity to present their science to the academic sector of Santiago. This event will be open to doctoral students, and a Chilean post-doc currently in Sweden could recount his experience in finding internships and an academic position in Sweden. A presentation on the IMIM international Master’s program could also occur. We could also advertise the arrival of the visiting professors and set up face to face meeting if requested. By eliminating the need for extensive “get to know you” presentations in Punta Arenas, this seminar will free up time in Punta Arenas to concentrate on future interactions and establish doctoral exchange programs.
Keywords: Vaccines, virus/bacteria, extracellular vesicles, immuno-oncology, allergy.
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Gareth Owen, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (gowen@bio.puc.cl)
Masood Kamali-Moghaddam, Uppsala University (masood.kamali@igp.uu.se)
Interdisciplinary perspectives on urban sustainability: communicational challenges and future development prospects towards sustainable cities and communities
Addressed Sustainable Development Goal: Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Possible site visits: We plan to invite urban activists, urban planners, local authorities, and academics to discuss which discourses impact the reach of a sustainable urban future. Through field work in the city of Punta Arenas, the workshop will analyze urban projects through an urban ethnographic approach and analyze the urban discourses that surround them through discursive analyses technics. This is a list of possible contacts for visits and discussions: the mayor and the governing body of Punta Arenas, the city planning unit of Punta Arenas, small businesses about their challenges, shopping mall, shopping mall to be built, the city unit at Punta Arenas planning for future traffic solutions for Punta Arenas, urban activists and unions representatives.
Keywords: Urban communication, comparative urban planning, socio-ecological transformations, environmental futures, urban governance
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Henrik Rahm, Lund University (henrik.rahm@nordlund.lu.se)
Liliana De Simone, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (rldesimo@uc.cl)
Memory, heritage and coloniality. Linkages between Chile and Sweden
Addressed Sustainable Development Goal: 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Possible site visits: Museum visits (Museo de la Memoria de Santiago, Museo Río Seco de Punta Arenas, Museo Regional de Punta Arenas and Museo de Puerto Natales)
Keywords: Memory, patrimony, Patagonia, colonialism, indigenous people
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Marisol Facuse, Universidad de Chile (marisolfacuse@uchile.cl)
Paulina de los Reyes, Stockholm University (paulina.de_los_reyes@ekohist.su.se)
New technologies, policies, and initiatives towards preventing and reducing marine pollution and its consequences: improving the sustainability of life below water
Addressed Sustainable Development Goal: Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities and
Possible site visits: Not specified.
Keywords: New technologies, Policies, Marine pollutants, Water ecosystems, Eutrophication, Sustainability
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Jurij Wacyk, Universidad de Chile (jwacyk@uchile.cl)
Karin Rengefors, Lund University (karin.rengefors@biol.lu.se)
Social (In)justice, indigeneity and sustainable future(s): Recognition, interrogation and re-existence
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, and Goal 15: Life on Land.
Possible site visits: Visiting an indigenous community, a museum or a nature reserve in Punta Arenas. Patricia Estivill Viarnés, a tourist guide in Punta Arenas (Magallanes Region), and a long-time activist on environmental issues and indigenous people’s culture and worldview, has agreed to assist us in planning the trip and she will be willing to act as our guide.
Keywords: Sustainability, Indigenous, Decolonial, Multilingualism, Re-existence, Social (In)justice
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Uppsala University (suruchi.thapar-bjorkert@statsvet.uu.se)
Alicia Noemi Salomone, Universidad de Chile (alicia.salomone@u.uchile.cl)
Rakel Österberg, Stockholm University (rakel.osterberg@su.se)
Enrique Sologuren Insúa, Universidad de Chile (enrique.sologuren@uchile.cl)
Sustainable aquatic food production systems
Addressed Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3: Good health and well-being, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 14: Life Below Water, and Goal 15: Life on Land
Possible site visits: In Santiago, a site visit is proposed to the CIMARQ marine biology research station at Quintay (https://cimarq.unab.cl), where research and development into species diversification of Chilean aquaculture is being conducted, including research on cusk eel and sea urchins. This is done in a participatory collaboration with artisan fishermen, to secure ecological, economic and social sustainability of local fisheries/aquaculture of local species in a rural community. The host is UNAB. Suggested date November 7th. In Punta Arenas, site two visits are proposed. One will be to a large-scale salmon farm near PA and the other will be to Bahia Magdalena, a sheltered bay close by PA, a collection site of the kelp species Eisenia arborea, closely related to the Swedish Laminariales brown algae. Details, timing and logistic for all site visits will be finalized when the workshop has been funded.
Keywords: blue food, sustainability, well-being, production systems, circular economy
Contact Details of principal investigators:
Kristina Snuttan Sundell, University of Gothenburg kristina.sundell@bioenv.gu.se
Juan Antonio Valdés, Universidad Andrés Bello jvaldes@unab.cl