LIME Newsletter at a glance
Welcome back to campus / LIME 20 years / Mental health / Employee survey / Meet George Keel
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A few words from the Head of Department
Dear LIME colleagues,
After two years of a fluctuating pandemic, we now enter a new phase with essentially all restrictions lifted. I think and hope that this coming year, in addition to most things becoming more normal, also will be characterized by several important lessons from the pandemic. Not least important is to reflect on the suffering and loss of lives. Also, we should learn from the more flexible way of working which, balanced right, in many cases can enhance efficiency and improve individual working environment.
In March the new Employee survey (Medarbetarundersökning) will be conducted. The results and findings will be very important to further improve the work environment at LIME and KI as a whole.
I very much look forward to meeting many of you at LIME breakfasts, the LIME retreat in April and other settings!
Yours, Carl Johan
Carl Johan Sundberg
Head of the Department
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WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES
We welcome new employees and say welcome back to returning employees!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO
Grattis, Onnittelut, Herzliche Glückwünsche, Gratulacje, Συγχαρητήρια
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From left: Aleksandra Sjöström-Bujacz, Mimmi Åström, Terese Stenfors, Carl Johan Sundberg, 8th size medal
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NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT
A mix of LIME internal news and important news from KI.
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LIME 20 years
In 2022 the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics turns 20 years! We will celebrate this throughout the whole year by different events.
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LIME QLIC
In order to further communicate and inform about what happens at LIME we launch "LIME QLIC", which will occur online 4 times / year. QLIC stands for Quarterly LIME Information and Conversations and invitations for these meetings will be issued via Outlook. See you there!
First LIME QLIC: 29 March 2022, 15.00-15.25
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HEALTH PROMOTION
It´s all cold and snowy and you don´t know what to do? Check out these five activies!
Do you want to be LIME's new Health promoter? Contact Therese Wahlström if you´re interested or curious to learn more about what it means to be a Health promoter.
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PARKING 2022
In order to park your car for staff tax on campus areas, a staff decal is required to be renewed each year. You will find the decals outside room #4103 (Carl Johan Sundberg´s office). One decal per person!
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ADVERTISING FOR RESEARCH OBJECTS
KI offers free help with advertising for research objects on social media and search engines on KI platforms. The researcher only pays for putting the ads on Facebook, Instagram or Google. Contact Elena Krivovyaz at socialmedia@ki.se
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PASSIONATE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH?
NASP is educating two persons from LIME to become instructors in Mental Health First Aid. The requirements for becoming an instructor is to have your own good social functioning, being able to communicate and help people learn, have a positive attitude towards people with mental health problems and to be fluent in Swedish. Apply to Marie Lind and also motivate why you´d like to be an instructur. Deadline: 2022-02-22
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ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
News from the environmental and sustainability representative
In upcoming newsletters Tanja Tomson will share sustainability ideas with us!
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
News from the equal oppurtunities representatives
Do you want to be an equal oppurtunities representative together with Marie Dahlberg? Contact Therese Wahlström if you´re interested or curious to learn more about it.
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NEWS FROM LIME'S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
News from the overall administration, financial unit, HR, communications and web.
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OVERALL ADMINISTRATION
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Project with flexible workspaces continues
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Click to read more in Swedish.
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When ordering a new computer
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Please remember when ordering a new computer it is important that you enter the address of ITA at Nobels väg 5 instead of the address of LIME's offices. If you forget, you´ll have to collect the computer at your office and personally deliver it to ITA.
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New folder system for important documents
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We are currently working on a folder structure to arrange and sort the important documents / data needed for everyone at LIME to be able to perform their work in the best way. The folder will contain everything from documents (LIME-specific) as well as links to the correct page on the Staff Portal (if there is information there already). Everyone at LIME will have read-only access to the folder which is expected to launch later this spring.
How do you locate the server "projects (\\user.ki.se)(P:)"?
English: Open File Explorer by pressing the Windows-button + E. Locate "projects (\\user.ki.se)(P:)" under "This PC" drop-down list on the left side.
Swedish: Öppna Utforskaren genom att trycka på Windows-tangenten + E. Du hittar "projects (\\user.ki.se)(P:)" under "Den här datorn"-listan till vänster.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
During March - April 2022 KI will conduct an employee survey in order to gain insight in what we think about working climate, health, leadership, goals and strategies. The survey will be sent out via e-mail.
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Performance management dialogues
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During spring term 2022 all managers are to invite his/her co-workers to Performance management dialogue 1.
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Wellness allowance and eye examination
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As of 2022-01-01, LIME will finance wellness allowance and eye examinations centrally. Use project number C787008012 for this.
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COMMUNICATIONS AND WEB
Utbildning i varumärkesfrågor för alla medarbetare, so far only in Swedish.
... find Operating info / Driftinfo at the staff portal: log in at the Staff Portal, look at the top left corner. This is a good way to find out if something is amiss at KI, either with systems or fire alarms.
Please remember the importance of an updated profile page, it´s often the first page you land upon when looking for a person.
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NEWS FROM LIME EDUCATION
LIME Education web pages (link).
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UPCOMING EVENTS AT LIME (& KI)
You will find these events (and more) in the LIME calendar.
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In every LIME Newsletter we´ll interview one or two co-workers to learn more about their work and what´s important to them.
Meet George Keel, a hospital and health care costing specialist and health economist, former doctoral student at LIME, now working at IHE and affiliated to LIME.
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In 2020 you defended your thesis ”Counting what counts: time-driven activity-based costing in health care” and now you are an affiliated researcher here at LIME. What projects have you been involved in at LIME since then? What project(s) are you working on right now?
- Since completing my thesis, I have begun directing the Advanced Course in Health Economics within the Health Economics, Policy, and Management Master’s program. I have also worked together with other course directors in the HEPM program to innovate our approaches to distance/online learning during the pandemic.
- Currently I am wrapping up work with my research group to get the final paper of my thesis published. We aim to submit in February. I am also supervising/co-supervising seven master’s students within four projects within the HEPM program.
If you could choose a dream project to work on, what would it be? And why?
- To be honest, I have no exciting answer here. Dream projects for me are those where there is a challenge to be solved that would improve circumstances for people and society, and where my skillset is ideal for developing a solution. I am a hospital and health care costing specialist and health economist, so any circumstance where a better understanding of costs and their relationships to outcomes will be useful for patients and society.
Some say it´s weird to be an Englishman in New York. How is it to be an American in Stockholm?
- I like to think I am not your typical American, but then again others around me may see me as the quintessential American. My Swedish remains at a five-year-old level while I’ve lived here over 10 years. Despite this, I’ve found myself feeling more at home in Sweden than I ever did in the United States. I would need more space to explain, but it ties into my tendency to keep religion at arm’s length, my values surrounding the importance of social support, and my appreciation for societies that are pleasantly both simple and functional. I can hear Swedes laughing, but I guess everything being relative makes everything funny.
- I do often feel a deep sense of discoordination in Swedish society. As I didn’t grow up here, I have lack all the nuances of society that are collected through childhood. But, I’ve always been one who tends to adapt, which as its positive and negative sides, one positive being it makes life easier for an expat.
… and at last: have you discovered anything new about yourself during the last two years of pandemic?
- I have developed a profound disinterest in social media and I am confident now in my ability to effectively teach courses at a distance, but also learned the difficult-to-explicate value and nuance of teaching in person.
- Pandemics are a strangely ideal time to raise a new baby, as the FOMO premise associated with new parents is removed almost entirely.
Who do you want to meet next? Send Marie Lind an e-mail with your suggestions.
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NEWS FROM LIME'S CENTRES AND UNITS
Specific news submitted from all of LIME's centres/divisions & units/research groups.
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Cecilia Dahlgren, Fanny Goude, Matilda Hagman and Sofia Sveréus from the Health Economics and Policy Research Group have recently published two reports for Region Stockholm in which they investigate the use of telemedicine in primary healthcare during first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, using linked registry data from Region Stockholm, Region Sörmland, Region Jönköping and Statistics Sweden; Telemedicine in primary healthcare during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
The results show that the pandemic served as a catalyst for telemedicine consultations in primary healthcare. The number of telemedicine consultations increased dramatically during the first wave of the pandemic, while the number of face-to-face consultations simultaneously decreased. However, the use of telemedicine was unevenly distributed across age groups. Older individuals, who had the largest decrease in face-to-face consultations, had the lowest use of telemedicine. Contrarily, individuals in the age group 19-25 years increased their use of telemedicine consultations to the extent that their total number of primary healthcare consultations was higher in 2020 than in 2018.
The results further reveal differences between face-to-face consultations and telemedicine consultations regarding diagnoses and socioeconomic profile of the users. Diagnoses treated in telemedicine consultations differed substantially from those treated in face-to-face consultations. and individuals who were highly educated, had higher income, or were Swedish-born used telemedicine consultations to a larger extent than other groups. These socioeconomic differences however diminished somewhat since 2018.
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From left: Fanny Goude, Matilda Hagman, Sofia Sveréus, Cecilia Dahlgren
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Illustrations for LIME 2022, QLIC, Health promotion, Advertising, AI@KI, Equal opportunities and HELLO by Marie Lind. Agenda 2030 from KI. Photo of the 8th size suspended by a blue ribbon medal: Alexis Daflos/Kungl. Hovstaterna Other illustrations from Pixabay. 2022-02-09
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