Alumni
2026 20-year Jubilee
Our 20-year jubilee was celebrated with a conference gathering more than 80 alumni. For two days we shared insights, stories and knowledge with each other, we heard keynotes from Professors Sidney Dekkker and Erik Hollnagel and we discussed our unique model for co-creation of knowledge harnessing the diversity of the programme.
| When? | What? | Who? |
| 0830-0900 | Registration | |
| 0900-1030 | Memories of 20 years with the MSc programme in Human Factors and Systems Safety | JB |
| 1030-1100 | Coffee | |
| Session 1: Practical applications and limitations 1 | Mod: Rogier | |
| 1100-1120 | Ad utrumque paratus | Stéphane De Wolf |
| 1120-1140 | Force Encounters; The Application of Human Factors in Policing | Liam Duggan |
| 1140-1200 | Collaborative Safety: The Advancement of New View and Safety Culture in Practice | Noel Hengelbrok, Scott Modell, Casey Melsek, James M. Nyce |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch | |
| Session 2: Theoretical reflections 1 | Mod: JB | |
| 1300-1320 | Does the “new view” have an evolutionary disadvantage? | Carsten Busch |
| 1320-1340 | Safety-II at an introspection point: epistemic authority or oblivion? | Bram Couteaux, Shen van Dijk, Anthony Smoker |
| 1340-1400 | The Wildavsky effect - How an outlier in Safety Science must become a regularity in the safety discourse. | Hans Nagtegaal, |
| 1400-1420 | Culture in Safety Culture | James M. Nyce & Anthony Smoker |
| 1420-1430 | buffer Q&A | |
| 1430-1500 | Coffee | |
| 1500-1530 | Panel 1: Teaching stories over the last 20 years. Panel members: Sidney Dekker and James Nyce | Mod: JB |
| 1530-1600 | Break | |
| 1600-1730 | Graduation Ceremony | |
| 1900 | Dinner |
| 0900-0915 | Good morning | JB |
| 0915-0945 | Keynote | Erik Hollnagel |
| 0945-1015 | Panel 2: From theory to practice: mission impossible? Panel members: TBA | Mod: Rogier |
| 1015-1040 | Coffee | |
| Session 3: Practical applications and limitations 2 | Mod: TBA | |
| 1040-1100 | Human Factors and System Safety in the ‘wild’- The regulator as predator? | Erwin Langejan & Anthony Smoker |
| 1100-1120 | Using Rasmussen’s dynamic model to assess organisational change | Sara Lind |
| 1120-1140 | Emerging Themes in Transition to a New Critical Care Transport Environment | Sarah Painter |
| 1140-1200 | Context is Everything: A Systems Approach towards a Culture of Learning from Emergent Outcomes in Diving | Gareth Lock |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch | |
| Session 4: Practical applications and limitations 3 | Mod: | |
| 1300-1320 | Introducing Just Culture and the Work-as-Imagined/Work-as-Done concepts in Biomedical Laboratories | Viji Vijayan |
| 1320-1340 | Human Factors Journeys in the Brazilian Oil and Gas Industry: Five Years Later, Where Are We Headed? | Jose Carlos Bruno |
| 1340-1400 | The limits of Safety circa 2025 | Bram Couteaux, Erwin langejan, Erik van der Lely, Nick Lowth, Anthony Smoker, Marc Baumgartner, David Woods |
| 1400-1430 | buffer Q&A | |
| 1430-1500 | Final reflections | JB & Rogier |
Keeping our alumni connected
In 2020 the initiative was made to start organising an alumni community for the MSc programme. Since then we have held our first online alumni meeting (during the pandemic) and in 2023 we organised our first alumni meeting on campus in Lund (see below).
We have decided to direct the communication for our alumni network to our Linkedin group. In this group, which as of fall 2023 gathers 96 alumni and students, we share information about upcoming activities and stay in touch. See you there!
Lund University Human Factors and Systems Safety (HFSS) Alumni and Students (LinkedIn)
Alumni meeting 15–16 June 2023
In June 2023 we held our first alumni meeting on campus in Lund. The alumni meeting was done as a part of 2023's Learning laboratory II and enriched the Thursday–Friday of the learning lab, including the yearly graduation ceremony.
Thank you all who contributed to making the alumni event a success! We plan to organise an alumni meeting every second year. And of course, in 2026 we need to gather to celebrate that the programme turns 20 years.
