FAK3008 Seminar Participation in Risk and Safety, Part 1 7.5 credits

The course consists in active participation in the seminars in risk and safety.

After finishing the course the student should

- be able to constructively criticize research papers in risk and safety research and propose improvements

- a working knowledge of what is required of a research paper in this area to make it publishable in an international refereed journal

- have a good orientation on the various methods used in risk and safety research, including both quantitative and non-quantitative methods, and with a particular emphasis is on methods for analyzing the science-policy relation in decision processes relating to risk and safety.

Eligibility for PhD students at KTH.

Reading material will be distributed throughout the course.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

The student’s presence should correspond to at least 75 % of the seminars given during two academic years. The student should make at least four presentations of her or his own papers. Furthermore, the student should be well-prepared at the seminars and contribute to the seminars with comments on the papers presented.

If a student cannot fulfil the participation requirements for instance due to geographical distance, then the course requirements can be partly or completely fulfilled through participation in corresponding seminars elsewhere. As a last resort when this is not either possible, course requirements can in part be fulfilled through other assignments providing the corresponding amount of training the methodology of risk and safety studies.

John Cantwell

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.