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"An equal engineer is a better engineer"
Martin Edin Grimheden. Photo: Anneli Nygårds Published Nov 16, 2021Can we be best in gender equality and thus deliver better engineers? Martin Edin Grimheden, Head of Department of Machine Design, thinks so. His mission is to make more people realize the same through...
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Jernkontorsfonden för Bergsvetenskaplig Forskning - apply by October 22
Published Oct 06, 2021The Jernkontorsfonden för Bergsvetenskaplig Forskning Foundation regularly distributes funds "to promote research activities at KTH, primarily in the metallurgy areas". Now is the time to apply for 20...
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Elections for The ITM school faculty assembly
Published Oct 06, 2021Now it is time for the election of members to The school faculty assembly. Read here who is eligible and how to nominate yourself.
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Researcher’s Fridays: "We help researchers with what we are good at"
Published Oct 06, 2021Hi Anders Wändahl at the library – KTHB - what does "Researcher’s Friday" mean in your calendar this autumn?
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“They’re not with us”
Photo: Ohmydearlife on Pixabay Published Oct 06, 2021We all have our prejudices, no matter how hard we try to shake them off . What matters is how we act on them. Ulrika Georgsson, Communications Officer at the School of Industrial Engineering and Manag...
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Meet the modern leader
Today's leader needs to be supportive, present and guided by distinct values, according to Johanna Strömgren. Photo: Antenna on unsplash Published Sep 29, 2021"A coach with big ears and eyes" could be a somewhat simplified description of the modern leader. Johanna Strömgren, who manages leadership training at KTH Lean Center, talks about leadership as a rol...
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Leadership Forum will support ITM’s managers
Photo from Unsplash. Published Sep 22, 2021How do you tell an employee that the person is not doing their job? What responsibility do I have when I suddenly become a manager? And how do I implement the development dialogues? ITM's new Leadersh...
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Apply for the ITM School's scholarships until October 25
Published Sep 17, 2021It is time to apply for a scholarship from the ITM school's foundations. Here you will find information about the 2021 call for school employees.
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Two departments become one
Published Sep 01, 2021Production Engineering (IIP) and Sustainable Production Development (HPU) are two departments close to each other in terms of subject but a bit apart geographically. July 1, 2022, they will merge and ...
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Lean Center employs two – despite the pandemic
Published Aug 24, 2021During the pandemic, KTH Lean Center in Södertälje strengthened its business with two employees. Pia Bernengo and Andreas Bohlinwill work with Lean Center's courses and commissioned training, like Sca...
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This is ITM's new HR manager
Alexandar Dimitrijevic is the ITM School's HR manager since June 2021. Published Jun 14, 2021The ITM School has a new HR manager. We welcome Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, who is currently being introduced to his new job by Anna Blendow.
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He investigates PMH in version 2.0
Peter Samuelsson will investigate what a future PMH could look like. Published Jun 14, 2021Now that the competence center PMH's time frames expire, KTH's President has decided to work for a continuation of the center. However, the ideas of HOW to move on differ. The President has therefore ...
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When the environment does not match your abilities
Photo: Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash Published Jun 07, 2021The year is 2019, and Ulrika Georgsson is engaged in meeting the new law on digital accessibility. She reads all details of the law and teaches how KTH's web editors should create content. Then, she s...
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Mikael Östling - the warrior of rankings
Chia-Ying, Mikael Östling and Wangzhong Mu in the Hultgren Lab. Photo: Håkan Lindgren Published May 19, 2021It is not easy to make oneself heard in the noise of all the research that is published today. Mikael Östling, Deputy President at KTH has been on tour at KTH's research departments to encourage resea...
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The meeting idols in my life
Photo by fauxels from Pexels. Published Apr 14, 2021There are plenty of meaningless meetings. The ones where you wonder why you are invited, meetings that you do not understand the purpose of, or where everyone suddenly has technical problems and disap...
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Schools get local support for digital teaching
Andreas Alm Arvidsson, Educational Administration Manager at ITM, leads the KTH project Local Support. Published Apr 13, 2021Now all schools will offer their teachers help to make the education digital. Andreas Alm Arvidsson leads the project ”Local support” with the goal that KTH shall provide just as good support in digit...
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Fredrik – an ethical compass at RSO
Photo: Ladislav Babienko, Unsplash Published Apr 07, 2021Ethics and research are more intertwined than one might think. As ethics issues end up higher and higher on the agenda, KTH employs an ethics expert. Meet Fredrik Karlsson with a passion for philosoph...
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“I want my research to matter”
Published Mar 17, 2021He is passionate about sustainable development. Francesco Fuso Nerini’s motive to make his work known to others is simple: to make a difference. ”As researchers we have a duty to produce quality resea...
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Learning the art of citation from each other
Published Mar 10, 2021What are the key success factors to become highly-cited or getting noted by Altmetric? In a series of articles, we’ll meet a handful of ITM researchers with a lot of citations and high scores in Altme...
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Many people remain silent
We calculate risk versus profit before we open our mouths. Photo: Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash Published Feb 26, 2021In Sweden, we are often bad at saying what we think. Afraid of conflicts, we prefer to nag on our own without saying outright what we see. But if we practice giving and receiving feedback, we may get ...
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