Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems

The University of the Sunshine Coast is looking for PhD students and working professionals to participate in a nationwide research study assessing the mental health of PhD students. This research will also find out how the mental health of PhD students compares with the wider Australian working population. PhD students must be aged 21 years … More Nationwide assessment of the mental health of PhD students in Australia

Are you a gig economy driver or rider? Do you want to contribute to gig economy worker safety? If so, we would like your involvement in our research that is developing and trialling a Gig economy Reporting of Incidents Tool (GigReports), a mobile app designed to capture road safety data from gig economy workers. Participants … More Attention Gig Economy Workers

The third issue of our Centre newsletter Connections is now available. Connections shares the latest HFE research and industry innovations from the world’s leading HFE researchers and industry representatives. Enjoy! 

A complex systems thinking approach to road trauma This week our director Professor Paul Salmon gave an invited plenary presentation at the 2021 Australasian Road Safety Conference as part of a session on Systems thinking for future road safety (Zero by 2050). Paul’s presentation included an introduction to systems thinking followed by an overview of his recently completed Australian Research Council Future … More Systems thinking in road safety 

The second issue of our Centre newsletter Connections is now available. Connections shares the latest HFE research and industry innovations from the world’s leading HFE researchers and industry representatives. Enjoy! 

The aim of this research project is to describe and understand the on-demand gig economy rider delivery system in Victoria, identify the network of factors that influence rider behaviour and safety (specifically, crashes), and identify initial recommendations for interventions to reduce risk. This study has been commissioned by the Department of Transport and approved by … More On-demand (Gig Economy) Delivery Rider Safety Systems Review

We are delighted to share our Centre Newsletter first issue, which shares the latest HFE research and industry innovations from the world’s leading HFE researchers and industry representatives. Enjoy!

The inaugural Systems Thinking in Football Webinar included a series of presentations on the application of systems thinking to understand and optimise football. The webinar was a huge success. We were overwhelmed by the number of registrations, and we would sincerely like to thank all of those who registered and attended. In total, we had … More Systems Thinking in Football Webinar recording

Webinar aims The notion that football matches, teams, clubs, and leagues are complex systems is now widely recognised. Systems thinking provides useful approaches for understanding this complexity. The inaugural Systems Thinking in Football Webinar aims to engage a broad audience on the value and benefit of applying systems thinking in football. The webinar will include … More Systems Thinking in Football Webinar

Over the past five years our researchers have published a series of short articles outlining our human factors and systems thinking research in The Conversation. These quick to read and easy to digest articles cover various topics ranging from transport safety, accident causation, automation, corruption in sport, land use planning and urban design, and sports … More Read our work in the Conversation!