A few words from the Head of Department
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Dear LIME colleagues,
I trust you all enjoyed your vacations, and it feels good to see LIME filling up with people again. Please keep sending pictures from your summer to Marie for the pentry screen to prolong the summer feeling for a while (read more under header COMMUNICATIONS & WEB below).
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For some doctoral students, it must, however, have been a tough summer. LIME will have five (!) thesis defences (see which under the header CALENDAR below) between August 26 and September 26, and certainly more to come until the end of the year. This is really amazing, and I already look forward to a large “LIME table” at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony in spring 2026.
Further, I would like to welcome Per Palmgren to the LIME Management Group from the autumn term, representing doctoral education.
I also would like to highlight the deadline Sept 2nd for younger researchers (=obtained PhD on January 2013 or later), who are employed at least 50% at KI, to apply for the KI Consolidator Grant.
With that I wish us all an inspiring, creative and productive autumn!
Sabine
Sabine Koch
Head of the Department
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Gergö Hadlaczky, principal investigator, and other researchers from Karolinska Institutet, Region Stockholm and Region Jönköping that have been awarded a project grant of 5,995,000 SEK from Forte. The four-year research project is aimed at improving knowledge about the temporal dynamics of the suicidal process and developing an intervention for individualized support during suicidal crises.
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TRAINING: Threats and Violence
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KI's Head of Safety and Security, Magnus Håkansson, will conduct sessions in both Swedish and English for us at LIME.
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WINDOW CLEANING: Saturday August 23rd
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You need to make sure that your windows are free of gadgets and bookshelves and can be opened, no later than Friday 22nd of August. If you are not on site yourself in time – please ask a colleague. (Most important for rooms we are leaving later in the Autumn.)
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LIME JF are pleased to announce this years’ Mentorship programme to start in the Autumn of 2025. Read more under the header RESEARCH below.
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The planned moving of some of our offices at Widerströmska has slowly started and is to be finalized by November 15th. You will soon get more information on who sits where. In the meantime, don’t be surprised to find colleagues in new places!
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Our next LIME (half) Day will take place November 6th from 1 to 5 pm here at KI. The agenda is not all set, so if you have suggestions, please contact Charlotte Rossland.
Perhaps we can also prolong the day and enjoy a pleasant evening together? More information will come!
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DID YOU ENJOY THIS ISSUE?
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Did you enjoy this issue of the LIME Newsletter? Please take a moment to rate it and don´t hesitate to send feedback or information to kommunikation@lime.ki.se Thank you!
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DISSERTATIONS save the dates
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2025-09-11 Dissertation Kenneth Hagsten
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LIME MANAGEMENT GROUP
LIME Management Group meets every second week. Primarily, strategic questions are on the agenda, but also current matters and reports from different fora such as KI North and the Head of Departments’ meeting with the KI President.
Per Palmgren, director of doctoral studies at LIME, will be part of LIME Management Group starting this semester. Welcome!
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Webinars and workshops on responsible internationalisation
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Responsible internationalisation is a priority area, where the further development of processes and support for risk assessment in international collaborations is central. Take the opportunity to stay updated on relevant issues in responsible internationalisation and get answers to your questions. Webinars and workshop on responsible internationalisation
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Consolidator grants for junior researchers 2025
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The Faculty board announces up to 10 Consolidator grants for junior researchers within Medical science, including Medicine, Health care and Health. The call is available for researchers already employed at Karolinska Institutet (KI). Applications should be submitted no later than September 2nd, 2025. Consolidator grants for junior researchers 2025
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Welcome to breakfast, information, and a behind-the-scenes look at Aula Medica 15-16 September
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Academic Conferences (Akademikonferens) supports in everything related to conference planning. On 15-16 September, they will inform on how they can assist you in this. You will also get a behind-the scenes tour of Aula Medica. Register before September 5, spots are limited.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
A salary review is expected by October 1st. The negotiations for the state authorities will hopefully be finished at the turn of September/October this fall. The preliminary time schedule is result- and salary dialogue from mid-October until mid-November.
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TRAINING SESSIONS MANAGERS: RESULT AND SALARY DIALOGUE
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There are now dates for training sessions in September regarding result- and salary dialogue (MS2). The training will be carried out on four occasions during the autumn of 2025. You choose which occasion you want to participate in via registration. Information and registration.
3 September at 09.00-12.00 (digitally in Swedish)
11 September at 13.00-16.00 (digitally in English)
18 September at 13.00-16.00 (physically in Solna in Swedish)
26 September at 09.00-12.00 (digitally in English)
The introduction day for new employees in English will be held September 30th at Campus Solna. Follow the link for more information and registration.
The introduction day in Swedish will be held November 14th at Campus Solna: Följ länken för mer information och anmälan.
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FINANCES
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PLANNED UBW DOWNTIME 11-15 SEPTEMBER
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From Thursday, 11 September at 08:00 until Monday, 15 September at 08:00, UBW will be completely unavailable due to a system upgrade. During this period, login will not be possible.
To avoid operational disruptions, please ensure that all invoices are approved well in advance of the downtime. Please also note that no financial postings, purchases, changes to extensions, or other finance-related tasks can be carried out during this time. Make sure to plan your activities accordingly.
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As usual (at least for two summers now) our Communications Officer Marie Lind will collect your best summer photos at the end of summer!
Make sure the format is landscape so it fits nicely on the pentry screen. Also give the location (city, country) and date when the photo was taken.
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LIME Health Ambassadors Nova Borg and Marie Lind invites you to join both or one of them to the gym, cold swims and dancing!
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Weekly Linda Sturesson Stabel welcomes you to mindfulness in RuFFA for about 5-15 minutes. Register to email list!
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QUICK PICKS FROM THE HEALTH HUB BY THE HEALTH AMBASSADORS
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🎾 Tennis, anyone?
Make the most of the Campus Solna tennis courts while they're still open! Courts are free for KI staff and students, and you can borrow rackets and balls at Berzelius väg 3.
📅 Packed class schedule kicking off in week 36
A full and varied line-up of movement classes is returning week 36 — including Dominican bachata at Medicinska Föreningen on Thursday evenings with yours truly.
Last but definitely not least, one of the funniest events of the year:
🏃 KI Fun Run – 25 September
Walk, jog or run solo or in a team at the KI Fun Run. Fun challenges, music, and food await — and yes, creative costumes are encouraged!
👉 Register to the KI Fun Run
Remember to make use of your wellness allowance. The purpose of the allowance is to encourage and inspire regular and recurring physical activity. The maximum amount is SEK 3,000 per KI employee per calendar year. At LIME, the wellness allowance is funded by the department’s shared resources. Read more about wellness allowance.
At KI, employees are also allowed to engage in wellness activities during working hours, provided that operations permit. The time allocated for such activities may amount to one hour per week in total and should be planned and adapted based on needs and possibilities in dialogue with the immediate supervisor. Read more about the wellness hour.
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SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT
Environmental and sustainability representative: Tanja Tomson.
Our building has south-west facing blinds between the panes of glass, which are controlled automatically, and via sun sensors. The new blinds between the panes of glass work just as the old ones, which means that they can be controlled manually via buttons in the office. Once or twice a day, they return to automatic control.
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LIME RESEARCH FIKA
Slots to present at the LIME Research Fika are available! Please let Charlotte Rossland know when you would like to present!
Information and schedule (link to All About LIME)
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LIME´S JUNIOR FACULTY
LIME JF are pleased to announce this years’ Mentorship programme to start in the Autumn of 2025.
Within this programme we will look to match mentors (Professors, Docents and Senior Faculty at LIME) with mentees (early career researchers, Junior staff, postdocs). An estimate of the time to devote to mentorship is two hours per month (November 2025 – April 2026). However, mentor-mentee pairs can arrange meetings according to their preferences. Topics for the meetings can be related to networking, career paths and opportunities, sharing of knowledge and experience. Let Ulrika Lögdberg know if you are interested.
ETHICS AT KI
The overview page "Ethics at KI" is now available in a new, updated version. Ethics is an important strategic area for Karolinska Institutet and is relevant in both education and research. Here you can read more about what we do, ask for advice and find links to useful sources on ethical issues, rules and guidelines, literature and education.
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Hej Elias,
What made you want to come and pursue a doctoral education at LIME? And how long ago was that?
I’ve been here for about one year and nine months! As I had been doing some research and a lot of teaching, educational research was something I really wanted to try and luckily, there was an open PhD-position.
Can you describe your research so that anyone understands it?
Of course, my main topic is patient involvement in health professions education, which is when patients are involved in education with the primary aim of educating through their unique experience of either sickness, symptoms or health care.
Have you always had an interest in educational research? What kind of change in the field do you hope to see?
My interest in educational research was probably more general before I started, but it didn’t take long for me to develop a great interest in patient involvement as well. I hope that patient involvement moves from small, isolated events to a structured sustainable part of health professions education.
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Being a doctoral student can be really stressful. Do you have any tips for other students on ways to keep the work balance?
I think it’s important to be kind to yourself. It might feel like you have to work 25 hours a day, but you don’t, what you’re doing is enough and your well-being is more important than any PhD project. You might also feel alone, not enough or like an imposter but you’re not. You are enough no matter what any reviewer or other unnecessarily mean person says, and you should be proud of yourself.
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Therefore, it is important to surround yourself with people and activities outside of work that are rewarding, recovering and empowering to remind you of what is most important, your own well-being.
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What is the most recent thing that you have learnt?
I’m a sucker for trivia and “fun” facts (they’re rarely that fun, right?) and I recently learnt that around 100 000 moose are killed in Sweden each year, and I find that a fascinating number.
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Do you have a motto that you´d like to share?
I’m not much of a motto-person unfortunately but let’s go with “Be kind to yourself”. I think a lot of us need to hear that more often.
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Pictures from Pixabay and Marie Lind.
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The LIME newsletter is intended for all staff and affiliates at the department and is sent out several times per term. Let us know if you wish to include something in upcoming newsletters by contacting LIME´s Communications Officer at kommunikation@lime.ki.se
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