Program Overview

Course Overview

The course Technology and Health contributes to an overall orientation about the subject's various research areas and to the development of necessary skills.

Information per Course Offering

Termin

Autumn 2025

Information for Autumn 2025 Start

• Course location: KTH Flemingsberg
• Duration: 3 Nov 2025 – 19 Dec 2025
• Periods: Autumn 2025: P2 (7.5 hp)
• Pace of study: 75%
• Application code: 50924
• Form of study: Normal Daytime
• Language of instruction: English
• Course memo: Course memo is not published
• Number of places: Places are not limited
• Target group: No information inserted
• Planned modular schedule: No information inserted
• Schedule: Schedule is not published
• Part of programme: No information inserted

Contact

• Examiner: Svein Kleiven
• Course coordinator: No information inserted
• Teachers:
  • Malin Håkansson
  • Svein Kleiven
  • Dmitry Grishenkov
  • Zhou Zhou
  • Jon-Erik Dahlin
  • Mikael Forsman
  • Matilda Larsson
  • Rodrigo Moreno
  • Adam Darwich
  • Catherine Trask
  • Sebastiaan Meijer
  • Seraina Dual

Course Syllabus

Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.

Content and Learning Outcomes

Course Disposition

A series of half‐day workshops focusing on the different research areas and methods within technology and health.

Course Contents

• Humans and technology in interaction
• Images in medicine
• Human tolerance, physiology in extreme environments
• Delivery of care and safety in systems
• Data-driven life science
• Sustainability in technology and health
• Gender and diversity – perspectives on work, technology and health

Intended Learning Outcomes

After completion of the course, the doctoral student should have the knowledge and ability to:

• describe the different relationships between technology and health
• critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of theories and methodologies presently applied to the field of technology and health
• compare methodological approaches in the field of technology and health and draw conclusions about their relevance and applicability to his/her own doctoral studies
• reflect on what the concepts of sustainable development, gender equality, diversity, and equal opportunities can mean in their own PhD project, as well as in the field of technology and health based on social, economic, and ecological aspects

Literature and Preparations

Specific Prerequisites

Eligible for studies at the third-cycle level.

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and Completion

Grading Scale

P, F

Examination

• INL1 - Hand-in exercises, 6.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• TEN1 - Written exam, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH's coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Other Requirements for Final Grade

Preparatory reading must have been undertaken to a satisfactory standard (which may be tested in the form of a brief online activity).

Examiner

Svein Kleiven

Ethical Approach

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further Information

Course Room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas.

Offered by

CBH/Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems

Education Cycle

Third cycle

Supplementary Information

The course replaces the course F6L5025.

Postgraduate Course

Postgraduate courses at CBH/Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems