Claudia Ousset (PhD clinical student, co-supervised with Tamlin Conner, Barbara Galland & Libby Schaughency): Teen sleep and driving
Reghan Laurie (MSc thesis student, co-supervised with Richard Linscott): New Zealand dairy farmers' perspectives on mental health service and burnout
Zach Evans (MSc thesis student, co-supervised with Tamlin Conner): Exploring post-deployment growth in New Zealand soldiers
Natalie Amersfoort (MSc student, co-supervised with David O'Hare)
Sapphira Harrington (MSc preliminary student, co-supervised with Tamlin Conner)
Dr Rachael Wynne (PhD, UniSC) co-supervised by Paul Salmon and Gemma Read. Her research involved comparing driving research paradigms (instrumented vehicles, driving simulators, video and photo-based experiments) and using them to understand visual attention in learner drivers. Rach is now a Lecturer at University of Newcastle, Australia, after completing a postdoc in aviation human factors at University of Southampton, UK.
Billie Petty (MSc, Otago): Investigating flight naïve participants' responses in a flight simulator
Alastair Cumming (MSc, Otago) - using Cognitive Work Analysis and AcciMap to understand safe working in railway shunting yards.
Campbell Teixeira (MSc, Otago) - examining insomnia symptoms and associated outcomes reported post-deployment by New Zealand Defence Force personnel. Campbell is now a Psychologist at NZDF.
Sienna MacArthur-Beadle (MSc, Otago) - targeting children's pedestrian safety around railways through storytelling. Sienna now works at KiwiRail and won the 2022 TrackSAFE Louise Cairns award for her MSc research.
Liam Kettle (MSc, Otago) - driver behaviour in youths, co-supervised by Rebecca McLean. After his MSc, Liam moved to the USA to pursue a PhD in Human Factors at George Mason University and now works in UX research at Johnson & Johnson MedTech.
Catherine Thomas (MSc, Otago) - comprehension of hazard warning labels for consumer products, co-supervised by Mele Taumoepeau. Catherine now works at Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand.
Charlotte Boyle (Otago, 2024): The phantom menace: Implicit processing of threats during an inattentional blindness task.
Ethan James (Otago, 2024): PHIRES New Zealand: Adaptation and feasibility pilot trial of the PHIRES Toolkit in Aotearoa.
Krishna Ponnuchetty (Otago, 2024): Weapon focus: Evaluating whether the presence of a weapon predicts inattentional blindness and lineup performance.
Ethan Cook (Otago, 2023): Factors that influence New Zealand cyclists’ acceptability of a prospective 360° radar collision warning system and rear-view camera system.
Alexandra McKenzie (Otago, 2023): “I thought I was invincible, but everyone needs sleep.” Teen sleep habits: Exploring perceived barriers and facilitators to healthy sleep.
Emily Brennan (Otago, 2022): “I think it’s the causation of a lot of mental health problems": Perspectives of young New Zealanders on transport and mental health.
Tori Cotton (Otago, 2021): Understanding the factors influencing route choices of Dunedin cyclists.
Finnbar Grieve (Otago, 2021): Staying on track: Using Cognitive Work Analysis to model shunting safety.
Imogen Huemmer (Otago, 2020): A qualitative analysis of hazard perception: Effects of driving experience, road type and familiarity. Co-supervised by Rachael Wynne.
Yvonne Mitchell (Otago, 2020): Perspectives of young New Zealanders on driver licensing and road safety.
John Poulgrain (Otago, 2019): I believe I can drive: Accuracy of self-report measures in young drivers.
Arabella Pullon (Otago, 2019): Attention in young drivers: A predictor of aberrant driving behaviour.
Liam Kettle (Otago, 2018): Safety at rail level crossings: Systematic identification of crash contributory factors.
Elise Berber (UniSC, 2017): Performance pathways in dressage: A systems approach.
Henry Gunson (UniSC, 2017): Drivers versus riders: What Drivers versus Riders: what makes them angry?
Choo Hong Tan (ANU, 2015–16): Understanding threat-related biases in anxiety: A study of negative affectivity and inattentional blindness. Co-supervised by Bruce Christensen.
Samantha Cooper (ANU, 2015): What makes searchers more efficient? Understanding the effects of target prevalence, context and driving experience on visual search efficiency in road scenes.
Alexander Mackerras (ANU, 2015): Setting things in motion: Visual search in a dynamic and interactive context.
Jane Britt (ANU, 2014): Near-sighted attention: The effect of myopia on visuospatial attention.
Lisa Hansen (ANU, 2014): Do cyclists make better drivers? The impact of pre-existing attentional set on driving-related hazard perception.
Sally Horwood (ANU, 2014): Inattentional blindness in older adults: The effect of old age on missing the unexpected.
Esther Chan (ANU, 2013): The effects of cultural and individual differences on inattentional blindness.
Rebecca Le (ANU, 2013): Great expectations: The influence of scene context on target prevalence effects in visual search.