Alumni
Our dear MSc programme in Human Factors and Systems Safety turns 20 years old and of course we are celebrating with a jubilee.
2026 20-year Jubilee
Turning 20 will be celebrated with a jubilee conference on 11–12 June 2026. It will highlight the impact of the programme, featuring keynote speakers and presentations from you: our former participants.
Location of the jubilee conference, as well as the preceding learning lab, will be Stadshallen, located at Stortorget in Lund.
We regret to announce that due to unforeseen personal circumstances professor Sidney Dekker is no longer able to attend the jubilee and will not be delivering the keynote address as originally planned. We send our best wishes to him and his family.
| 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 |
We are happy and honored to have Professor Emeritus Erik Hollnagel joining our jubilee as a keynote speaker. Erik will reflect on the successes and failures of Joint Cognitive Systems, Resilience Engineering and Safety I vs. Safety II.
Erik Hollnagel Scientific Director at the Institute of Resilient Systems + (Seoul, South Korea), Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universitat München (Germany), and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University (LIU), Sweden.
Erik Hollnagel has done foundational work related to system management & performance, system safety, resilient health care, resilience engineering, human reliability analysis, cognitive systems engineering, and intelligent man-machine systems. He is the author of more than 500 publications including 32 books (working on number 33), articles from recognised journals, conference papers, and reports. A recent issue in Safety Science was dedicated to Erik's work.
As a bonus to attending the jubilee event you are also offered the possiblity to attend the preceding learninig lab on The Ethics of Safety (8–10 June). We hope to see you in Lund in June!
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.
