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Lund University - Academic Theory and Practice
Season 2 · Episode 8

Lund University - Academic Theory and Practice

This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software · Colette Alexander and Clint Byrum

July 10, 20251h 4m

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Show Notes

A huge thanks to our panelists:

⁠John Allspaw⁠

⁠Jed Needle⁠

⁠Chad Todd⁠

RISF and TiF will host a live follow up to this episode on July 31st! You can sign up here: ⁠https://resilienceinsoftware.org/networks/events/133948⁠

If you’re interested in Lund’s Masters of Science program in Human Factors and Systems Safety, or any of their learning labs, you can check out more info here: ⁠https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/⁠

⁠Adaptive Capacity Labs⁠ is how Jed was introduced to some of the concepts of LFI & Resilience Engineering, which eventually landed him at Lund.

John mentioned SciShow Tangents, a podcast by Hank Green and Ceri Riley: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/scishowtangents⁠

As well as Conway’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

And Dunbar’s Number: ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number⁠ 

And the Theory of Graceful Extensibility, which you can read about here: ⁠https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api/core/bitstreams/87cfe245-c138-43cb-87c9-4062dc1a0519/content⁠

Lund theses list: https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/ny-sajt/msc-programme/msc-theses/

Our panel’s select theses that they love:

Colette’s pick: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9106422⁠

Chad’s pick: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9009930⁠

John’s picks were all of the software theses, I’m probably missing some but this is my attempt:

John’s (was the first): ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/8084520⁠ 

J Paul Reed: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/8966930⁠ 

Chad’s thesis on handovers in software: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9076274⁠ 

Michael Wettick: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9150096⁠ 

Colette’s thesis on QRA: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9148570⁠

Jessica De Vita: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9149521⁠ 

Dr. Raymer’s I want to Treat the Patient and Not the Alarm: ⁠https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/2861164⁠