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
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Sidney Dekker, Professor Emeritus Erik Hollnagel
Registration is still open!
Register for the 20-year Jubilee (Invajo's website)
For curren year one-students and relatives to the graduating students there is the possibility to: Register for Jubilee dinner only (Invajo's website).
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. Please see the following instructions for how to submit an abstract to show your interest in contributing to the event:
We are so happy to have our programme founder Professor Sidney Dekker back in Lund to give us a keynote reflecting on the theoretical and practical development of our field during the past 20 years!
Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is Professor in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Sidney has lived and worked in seven countries across four continents. He was at Lund University 2005-2011 where he founded the Master's in Human Factors and System Safety.
Sidney is prolific and bestselling author of over twenty books, including Safety Theater, Ten Virtues of a Positive Safety Culture; Random Noise; Stop Blaming; Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; Patient Safety; Compliance Capitalism; and Do Safety Differently.
He has co-directed the documentaries ‘Safety Differently,’ ‘Just Culture,’ ’The Complexity of Failure,’ and ‘Doing Safety Differently.’
An avid piano player and pilot who learned to fly at age 14, Sidney flew the Boeing 737 for an airline on the side when he was at Lund.
He is a trained mediator and Crisis Chaplain.
His work has some 23,000 citations and an h-index of 66.
Stanford has recently ranked Sidney among the world’s top 1% most influential scientists since Newton. More at sidneydekker.com
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 twenty-eight books, articles from recognised journals, conference papers, and reports.
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.
