Aarhus University once again invites students and employees to attend the MatchPoints Seminar. The seminar takes place from Thurday May 22 to Saturday May 24, and offers a special fee for AU employees, as well as a very low one for students.

This year’s MatchPoints Seminar is about Trust. Trust between people, systems, and even robots. Trust, distrust and corruption; trust and management; trust and democracy; trust and Shakespeare and much more. The world-renowned Professor Robert Putnam (Harvard University) will do several of his lively and engaging presentations, on inequality in the US and democracy and social mobility.

Registration is open until 9 May 2014

Read more, and register here 

Of special interest to ST and Health could be:

• Birgitte Kofod Olsen (CSR Director, Tryg) on  managing sensitive personal data
• Trust in health care: ”My doctor does not take me seriously”
• Trust me, I am Robot! Conceptualizing interpersonal trust in the interaction between human patients and medical technology
• Social Capital and Health Inequality in the Scandinavian Welfare State