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Research within this branch of the APHF covers a broad range of projects across a variety of industries.  The work is an amalgam of human factors aspects and psychological theory, designed to explore perceptual and cognitive topics within the applied context of high risk industry.

Currently this work is focused on four main areas:

  • Workplace incivility / rudeness
  • Cognitive bias and normalisation of deviance in the Energy Industry
  • Visual search and information gathering within the context of aviation
  • Attitudes towards risk in the context of farmer ATV helmet wearing

Normalisation of deviance

PhD project funded by the Energy Institute exploring cognitive bias and normalisation of deviance within the energy industry
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Visual search & information gathering

Research conducted to examine aspects of visual search and information gathering within helicoper flight.
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Understanding behaviour

Research study applying the COM-B model to understand farmer attitudes towards risk and ATV helmet wearing.
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Workplace incivility / rudeness

Research examining workplace incivility across multiple contexts.
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  • Dr Amy Irwin

  • Dr Nejc Sedlar

  • Dr Heather Branigan

  • Dr Janine Cooper

  • Linda Engles

  • Prof Rhona Flin

  • Dr Susan Griffiths

  • Dr Helen Knight

  • Dr Peidong Mei

  • Helen Silver-MacMahon

  • Dr Ilinca Ruxandra Tone

  • Apoorva Amirapu

  • Beatrix Duff

  • Sofia Johansson

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