The Year 2018 in Review

In retrospect, 2018 was a great year for our research group. So, as we move on to 2019, here are some of the hilights for this year.

The year began with Thomas Lind doing one of his first –but definitely not last– presentations as a PhD, on the topic of IT implementations in health care.

Just after that, the new course on Complex IT Systems in Large Organizations started, with Diane Golay as one of the teachers. In the field of education there were of course also a number of interesting master thesis (such as this, this, this and this).

The second quarter saw Åsa Cajander earn the title excellent teacher but more importantly she also became full professor. You can still view her inauguration speech here (in Swedish). As if that was not enough Bengt Sandblad’s new book on the digital work environment was published – and our colleague Rebecca had her half time seminar.

During the summer Shweta Premanandan visited us once again and she got to experience the Swedish midsummer festivities. Minna Salminen Karlsson escaped the same festivities and instead joined the OAP workshop in the Netherlands.

Of course there were a number of other conferences and events attended by members of the HTO group (here or there). Gunilla Myreteg enjoyed a workshop arranged by Birgitta Wallgren at EPJ (the department for Electronic Patient Records). The HTO group also was responsible for a workshop at Uppsala Health Summit on the topic of Using Data for Better Cancer Treatments.

Much of the research efforts were related to the DISA project. Among many other things Ida Löscher reflected on the use of Work Domain Analysis and Lars Oestreicher shared some observations on cognitive workspace design.

We celebrated Jonas Moll as he concluded his PostDoc in Uppsala, two years and quite a few presentations and papers later. The year finally ended in high spirits when Christiane defended her thesis and became Dr Grünloh.

So, what do we have in store for 2019? More courses, more papers and more conferences of course. Perhaps we could also land a grant or two, to fill the gaps of those who have moved on to new positions. But we will no doubt continue to collaborate with our HTO alumni, in academia you can check out—but you can never leave.