Our students keep cooperating after graduation
Our MSc degree in Human Factors and System Safety not only contributes to personal development and career paths, it also gives our students a wide network across high-risk domains.
In memory of Hans Houtman
It is with deep personal regret that we today inform all visitors at this page of Hans Houtman's death. Hans died after a short time of illness. In the Master Programme of Human Factors and System Safety we remember Hans as a great mentor, student but mostly as a fantastic friend. Hans' positive attitude, friendliness, humour and dedication to our [...]
Our next learning lab to be held January 19-23, 2015
Our next learning lab will be one introducing the fields of human factors and systems safety. During five days we will together follow the development of the fields, from Heinrich's writings in the 1930's. How has the thinking on why accidents happen evolved? What are the turning points? When has the human been seen as the trouble to control and [...]
Graduation ceremony
During the Thursday afternoon of our summer learning laboratory we held our traditional graduation ceremony. Five graduates were able to join and share the celebration of their grate efforts over the last years as students in our program. The ceremony followed our traditional format. Following a welcome speech by Johan Bergström, the director of [...]
Report from our summer learning lab
This week, when the Swedish sun pretty much never sets, we again gathered out current student, many of our past students (once a student alway a student) and several future students for another learning lab focusing on the ethical aspects of safety. During five days we have, together with Professor Sidney Dekker, struggled with topics of just [...]
Our learning laboratory visited by Professor Richard Cook
On January 30 we had the great privilege of having Sweden's first professor of patient safety, Richard Cook as a guest lecturer. At our learning laboratory "Critical Thinking in Safety" professor Cook spent a full day introducing our new students to the history of the discipline human factors. He also shared his thoughts on topics such as incident [...]
A new group of students has started the program
15 new students have now started their journey towards a MSc degree in Human Factors & Systems Safety at Lund University. The class of 2014 started with the learning laboratory "Critical Thinking in Safety" between January 27 and January 31. The learning laboratory focused on introducing human factors and systems safety as academic disciplines and [...]
Learning lab dates 2014
The following learning lab dates are confirmed for 2014: Critical thinking in human factors and systems safety: January 27-31 From human error to second victim (with Dr. Sidney Dekker): June 23-27
Video page updated
Dear visitors, please check out our updated video page where we have added a number of great lectures given by members of our staff.
Master student nominated on the The Editors’ shortlist for the 2013 IEHF Liberty Mutual Award for the best paper published in Ergonomics 2012
We know that our students produce master theses of high academic standard, and we often encourage them to go ahead and prepare a paper for a scientific journal based on their findings. This is what Karen Raymer, an anesthesiologist by profession, decided to do. Together with her supervisors James Nyce and Johan Bergström she prepared a review [...]