School of Psychology

Funding

Review of computer assisted learning and occupational training sponsored by National Development Programme for Computer Assisted Learning, 1977.

Retraining and selection by upgrading to technician:  Grouping of skills project sponsored by the Training Services Agency (Phase 1), 1977 (£9,122).

Implementation of retraining and selection recommendations in upgrading to technician (Phase 2), funded by the Training Services Division of the Manpower Services Commission,1978 (£13,638)

Grouping of skills: Upgrading, selection and retraining. (Phase 3),funded by the Training Services Division of the Manpower Services Commission, 1978 (£29,806).

Development of training procedures for kiln control.  Funded by Cement Makers Federation, 1980 (£17,500)

Training and selection of instrument personnel in cement and cement products industry.  Funded by Ceramics, Glass and Brick ITB, 1980 (£35,000).

Production of manuals for developing training material in the plastics injection moulding industry.  Funded by Rubber and Plastics Processing Industry Training Board, 1979 (£8,500).

NATO Study Visit Grant, 1979 (£1,200).  A review of computer-based training in America.  (Part of sabbatical programme, 1979).

Development of a British equivalent to the Position Analysis Questionnaire, 1981.  3 years. (£40,000). Funded by the Training Services Division of the Manpower Services Commission.

Training and selection of computer personnel, 1982. 1 year. (£37,000).  Funded by CTAI, Manpower Services Commission.

A review of training materials for fault-finding, 1985.  Contract jointly with K. Duncan. Funded by Manpower Services Commission. Seven months (£10,000).

The analysis and training of complex skills, 1988.  ESRC/CNRS Research exchange award for discussions at various Universities of Paris. Hosted by Professor Leplat at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Laboratoire de Psychologie du Travail, Paris.

Computer based training and decision support for problem solving tasks, 1987-1991.  Award to J. Patrick and K. Duncan from SERC Alvey Man-Machine Interface Directorate for collaborative research with British Steel, Port Talbot (Total £303,000, UWCC £164,000). Funded by SERC and DTI.

Development and coordination of Continuing Education with University of Swansea for courses in Occupational and Industrial Psychology. Funding from UFC (£30K over 2 years 1991-3).

Fault-finding expertise, 1992. Nuclear Safety Research Programme, Health and Safety Executive (£12,650).

Fault-finding expertise - Training and aiding for novel and challenging events.  UKNuclear Safety Research Programme, HSE, £85K.  Research Programme 1993-95.

Fault-finding in maintenance tasks. Funded by the Industry Management Committee, UK Nuclear Safety Research Programme, £26K, 1994-5.

Training to diagnose novel faults in complex systems. Funded by the Human Capital and Mobility Programme, EEC. £50K. 1993-95.

Expertise in dealing with challenging events. Funded by the Industry Management Committee, UK Nuclear Safety Research Programme, £90K, 1995-1997.

European Network on Prevention of Human Errors in Systems for Energy Production and Process Industry funded under the European Human Capital and Mobility Programme. 80K ECU (jointly with K. Duncan at Cardiff).  Network included laboratories at Universities of Liege, Giessen, Valenciennes, Eindhoven and Cardiff and also links with laboratories in Hungary, Rumania and Russia.  Research Programme 1993-97.

Situation awareness. Funded by the Industry Management Committee, UK Nuclear Safety Research Programme, £49K, 1997-1998

Analysing and developing Situation Awareness using simulated scenarios. Funded by the Industry Management Committee, UK Nuclear Safety Research Programme, £57K, 1999-2001

Overcoming Situational Awareness problems. Funded by the Industry Management Committee, UK Nuclear Safety Research Programme, £10K, 2002-2003.

Designing integrated displays to support team Situation Awareness. (Principal investigator with S. Banbury, A. Howes & D. Jones). Funded by UK, MoD Data and Information Fusion, Defence Technology Centre, £222K, 2003-2006.

Communications Research Centre. Funding from General Dynamics (UK). (with K. Lever and D. Marshall), £100K, 2003 – 2006.

Communication Research Centre. Funded under Science Research Infrastructure Round of Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. (with Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Departments of Computer Science, and Physics and Astronomy). £946K, 2004- 2007.

Effectiveness of coaching in military training. Funded through the Haldane-Spearman consortium by UK, MoD ‘Preparing People for Operations’ Programme, £100K, 2005-2006.

Multivariate information management and exchange (with D. Jones). Funded by UK, MoD, Data and Information Fusion, Defence Technology Centre, £247K, 2006-2009.

Temporal debiasing decision key. Funded by UK, MoD, Data and Information Fusion, Defence Technology Centre, £198K, 2006-2009.

Psychological techniques for identifying deceit. EADS; £124K, 2008-2011.

Two interdisciplinary studentships of 3.5 yrs & £70K each, funded by industrial and matched funding from ENGIN, COMSC & PSYCH, 2009-2012.

Tri-Service review of training principles. Funded through the Haldane-Spearman consortium by UK, MoD ‘Preparing People for Operations’ Programme, £90K, 2010-2011.

Recent Research Development and Collaboration

Developed with Professors King & Lever the University’s participation in the first MoD funded Defence Technology Centre (DTC) concerned with Data and Information Fusion involving a consortium of three defence companies (General Dynamics UK, BT & QinetiQ) and eight universities (Cambridge, Imperial, Surrey, Cranfield, Lancaster, Bristol, Southampton & Cardiff) led by GD UK. In the first annual funding round, the University won three contracts worth about £660K.

Developed the interdisciplinary Human Factors Technology Centre (HFTC) as Deputy Director and collaborated with Engineering, and Computer Science. Designed bespoke laboratories and secured £946K SRIF 2 money to equip them, £100K from General Dynamics UK and £225K from EPSRC’s Collaborative Training Accounts to establish a part-time MSc in Data and Information Fusion.

Organised the School’s membership of the successful Haldane-Spearman consortium that includes Universities of Birmingham, Cardiff, Nottingham, and Loughborough plus QinetiQ, Quintec and other industrial organisations. The consortium secured preferred supplier status for £18M research funding under UK, MoD’s ‘Preparing People for Operations’ Programme in Human Science, now in Phase 3.

Organised the School’s participation in, and development of the proposed £9.5M Welsh Aerospace Research Institute (WARI) with research funding for School of Psychology.

Developed the School’s and University’s collaboration with EADS and Welsh Assembly Government, £1M pa. grant. Chair of the University Advisory panel for EADS Foundation.

Collaboration within the School with Lewis Bott & Michael Lewis.

Organisation of National and International Conferences

International programme organiser of European conferences in Cognitive Science Approaches to Process Control, 1989-2002. Joint Conference Director of Third European Conference on Cognitive Science Approaches to Process Control held at UWCC, Cardiff, 2nd-6th September, 1991 Organiser of the 1st European Network meeting (CADES) on Operator Training and the Acquisition of Cognitive Skills, the School of Psychology, 26-28 September 1990 and sponsored by CNRS (France). Joint conference director for the 6th European Annual Conference on Human Decision Making and Manual Control, the Department of Applied Psychology, UWIST, Cardiff, 2-4 June 1986. Conference organiser for BPS Annual Conferences in Occupational Psychology, 1982-84.