Go global with your Master’s thesis

Presentation of thesis work with data collection in low- and middle-income countries and how they are supported by scholarships from Chalmers.

The students will show a short film from their trips followed by reflections and questions. You are welcome to attend in parts of, or the whole programme. 

Program:

09.00 – 09.10 Welcome and introduction

09.10 – 09.25 Investigating new ways of ''making'' heritage; The Case of the Adaptive Reuse of the Majestic Cinema, Dionysia Styliani Lappa

09.25 - 09.40 Planning for Clinical Trials Evaluating the Clinical Value of a Stroke Diagnostic Tool in a Resource-Constrained Healthcare System: A Case Study of the StrokeFinder MD100 in Rwanda, André de Mots & David Fernblad

09.40 – 09.55 Negotiating the Sacred Threshold: Field Notes and Spatial Responses from a High-Altitude Tibetan Pastoral Settlement, Guiling Xiao

09.55 – 10.15 Coffee break

10.15 – 10.30 Design Thinking for Social Innovation in Rural Mozambique: Exploring How the Design Thinking Process Can Foster Social Value for Female Entrepreneurs in Linga Linga, William Samin & Emma Andersson

10.30 – 10.45 When Capital Goes South: How International Capital Finances Commercial & Industrial Solar Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Qualitative Case Study of Frictions, Mechanisms, and Development Mandate in Kenya’s Intermediated Financing System, Marcus Breiter & Adam Westberg

10.45 – 11.00 Short break

11.00 – 11.15 Sustainable greywater treatment and reuse for irrigation in rural Tanzania - A case study of Tumaini Open School in Tabora, Johanna Löf & Yasmine Jakobsson

11.15– 11.30 Interlocking CSEB buildings in Nepal - Performance and failure behaviour investigated by masonry prism and triplet shear testing, Kajsa Lilja & Kalle Edström

11.30 - 11.45 Planning a Clinical Trial for the Strokefinder MD100 in the Western Cape Region, Tilde Kvarnström & Sofia Börjesson Rintala

11.45 – 11.55 Wrap up

Read more about the scholarship: The Global Mentorship Program