Senior Lecturer

Steve has been with UNSW Aviation since November 2003, after a number of years in industry working in various areas of human factors and safety. Steve's research interests involve people in control of complex, high-hazard, socio-technical systems. Steve gained a First Class BSc (Hons) in Applied Psychology (Liverpool John Moores University), followed by a MSc (Eng) Work Design and Ergonomics with Distinction (University of Birgmingham), and a PhD on the analysis of human error in air traffic control (University of Nottingham). Steve has experience in application, research, and teaching in various areas of human factors/ergonomics, industrial, work and organisational psychology and safety management, and has published widely on these issues in books, journals, conference proceedings and industry publications and reports. Particular areas of interest include human automation interaction, incident and accident investigation and analysis, human error prediction, user interface design, risk and safety management, human factors tool development, consulting processes the research-practice gap. One of Steve's key achievements has been the development of TRACEr ('Technique for the Retrospective and predictive Analysis of Cognitive Error') and TRACEr-lite, which he also helped to adapt to develop HERA-JANUS, a Eurocontrol/FAA development of TRACEr. Steve also developed the original Eurocontrol 'Human Factors Case' approach to human factors integration.

Steve consults to industry in the areas of human factors and safety management. He has provided external and internal consulting and training services in Europe and Australia to major European transport, process industry and Government clients, such as Eurocontrol, National Air Traffic Services, Network Rail, English, Welsh, and Scottish Railways, Virgin Rail, Serco Docklands, RailCorp, National Patient Safety Agency, BG Transco and Ciba Specialty Chemicals. He has also assisted the Australian Government, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), concerning the deisgn and use of the Movement Alert List. Steve has previously worked in Senior and Prinicipal roles at National Air Traffic Services/NATS (UK), DNV Consulting (UK) and RailCorp (NSW).

Steve is a Registered with The Ergonomics Society (MErgS), a Chartered with the British Psychological Society (CPsychol). He is a regular reviewer for a number of journals including Safety Science and Applied Ergonomics, and is a Feature Editor for 'The Ergonomist'. Steve maintains two blogs on human factors in the news and human factors research into practice

AVIA5017 - Human Factors in Transportation Safety - Course Coordinator
AVIA3401 - Aviation Safety and Resource Management
AVIA4001 - Honours