The Centre places significant emphasis on research training through our postgraduate study program comprising PhD and Masters degree projects focused on the application and/or extension of human factors and sociotechnical systems theory and methods.
PhD students
- Karl Dodd: Optimising Systemic Controls for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in Soccer in Australia
- Isaiah Elstak: Identifying the Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Sports
- Samantha Jackson: A systems approach to redesigning the Australian safety framework for Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems
- Nicole Liddell: A systems thinking approach to address technology-facilitated abuse in the context of intimate partner violence.
- Ryan McNeilly Smith: Bioclimatic Urban Design Policy for Improved Microclimates in the Public Realm: A Case Study of Extreme Heat Mitigation in Queensland
- Tania Stevenson: A systems thinking approach to improving performance pathways in Australian Athletics
- Riley Thomson: Human-AI Teaming in Healthcare: A Systems-Level Analysis of Distributed Situation
Awareness - Tobias Volbert: Inclusive design beyond accessibility: Establishing an approach for sensory main streets to optimise urban comfort for everyone
- Lachlan Whittle: Developing and testing systems thinking-based leading indicators for nuclear safety
Masters students
- Martin de Lange: Exploring the opportunities and challenges for future service planning and delivery of sport and recreation infrastructure
- Erin Stevens: Power and teamwork: applying systems thinking to understand and prevent medication management failures in hospitals
- Brian Warner: Effective engagement for equitable outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders
Student completions
- Elizabeth Grey: Forecasting System Safety Performance
- Alison O'Brien: Using Distributed Situation Awareness to Understand and Enhance Multi-Agency Emergency Response to Natural Disasters
- Brandon King: Using Systems Thinking/HFE to Identify and Mitigate the Risks Associated with the Use of Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Peter McCormack: Applying systems thinking to understand and prevent the risks associated with manual tasks
- Mitch Naughton: Quantifying the collision in the rugby football codes
- Rachael Wynne: Visual attention in driving
- Judith Watson: Identify theft and continuation of internet use
- Dennis Desmond: Optimising illicit dark net marketplace intervention
- Matthew Woolley: A systems approach to accident investigation
- Cate MacMillan: Independent living for adults with intellectual disability
- Nick Patorniti: Sociotechnical systems and main street urban planning and design
- Brian Thoroman: Near-miss events in led outdoor activities
- Tony Carden: A systems approach to regulatory system design and evaluation
- Eryn Grant: Accident prediction in complex sociotechnical systems
- Clare Dallat: A systems approach to risk assessment in led outdoor activities
- Scott McLean: The application of human factors methods to performance analysis in football
- Adam Hulme (Federation University): A systems approach to running injuries
- Timothy Neville: Distributed situation awareness in Australian Football Rules umpire systems
- Margaret Trotter (Monash University): Improvisation in led outdoor activities
For further information regarding our HDR program and opportunities to study within the centre please contact Professor Paul Salmon, (07) 5456 5893, psalmon@usc.edu.au or a Theme Leader relevant to your area of study.