Therese Ekstrand Amaya

Communications Officer

Science communicator for social sciences, humanities and educational sciences. I am also press contact in these fields.

Presentation

As research communicator I write articles and news items about research at the university in the fields of social sciences, humanities and educational sciences. 

Main tasks:

Writing press releases and articles about current research in the fields of social sciences and humanities.
Participating in courses in research communication for doctoral students and researchers
Helping journalists and researchers to contact each other through various channels. I am a member of the central Press Service at LiU.
Working with LiU News and LiU Magazine

News Show/Hide content

Camera can measure greenhouse gases

A camera so advanced that it can photograph and film methane in the air around us is now presented by a team of researchers. It can be an important part of the efforts to measure and monitor greenhouse gases

Cities’ attraction of talent escalates the regional divide.

Big cities feed on their hinterlands

Researchers at LiU call into question an influential theory of the self-reinforcing dynamics of urban growth.

Her life inspires her research

One day a Soviet citizen, the next day Russian. That’s what happened to Professor Madina Tlostanova when the Soviet Union collapsed. The experience came to inspire her research.

Online therapy helped cardiovascular disease patients with depression

Researchers have developed a treatment for depression among people with cardiovascular disease. The results show that patients who underwent internet-based therapy became less depressed and gained a better quality of life.

Just a tablet

Medicines affect us in many ways – not all of them physical. Behind the tablets we take lie expectations and marketing and They are pieces in a game that deals with feminine and masculine, and what drug companies really consider these terms to mean.

Uterus transplantation – ethically just as problematic as altruistic surrogacy

Researchers at universities including Linköping University have studied ethical aspects of uterus transplantation. The results show that uterus transplantation with living donors is ethically just as problematic as altruistic surrogacy.