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Dr Amy Irwin's Research to feature on BBC Scotland
Farming is a high risk industry with 39 fatalities recorded within the UK in the past year, making it THE most hazardous occupation with 18 times the average fatality rate across all industries. Perhaps most upsetting are the child fatalities within this number - with 2 recorded during the 2018/19...
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New Pocket Guide for Farmer Safety
The School of Psychology is pleased to launch a new (and FREE!) A6 pocket guide to farmer safety critical non-technical skills. The guide condenses our farming safety research from the past 5 years into an easy to read format that encourages farmers to make notes as they go through. The...
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TRAC collaboration set to improve chainsaw safety
TRAC is an international company that provides a variety of engineering products and services, including support for offshore drilling, and equipment for railway maintenance. The School of Psychology initially formed a collaborative relationship with TRAC in 2017 and has regularly sent student interns to the company since then. The focus of...
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Thinking ahead of the tractor: Using checklists to improve driver safety
Agriculture is a high risk industry with fatalities and injuries happening every year. During the 2017/18 period the HSE reported 33 fatalities within UK agriculture making farming the most hazardous occupation in the UK during that period. One of the risks within agriculture is working with farm machinery – six...
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New collaboration with CHC helicopter announced!
Dr Amy Irwin, Dr Ceri Trevethan and Oliver Hamlet launched a new applied research group this year within the School of Psychology. The Applied Psychology and Human Factors group (APHF) consists of academic staff and researchers whose research is grounded within applied psychology. The APHF group aims to promote applied...
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Launch of new e-learning module addressing non-technical skills in farming
Dr Amy Irwin and Oliver Hamlet have developed a short e-learning module for farmers, in collaboration with Lantra (accredited agricultural training organisation).
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Internships Success
Our Undergraduate students have been extremely successful this year in securing funded summer research internships.
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Non-Technical Skills in Agriculture workshop a great success
The NTSAg (Non-Technical Skills in Agriculture) workshop was held on April 26th. Dr Amy Irwin, Dr Ruby Roberts, Oliver Hamlet (PhD student), Iain Sutherland (HSE) and Alan Plom (IOSH rural) presented research on non-technical skills and farm safety to an audience that included representatives from the Scottish Government, Health and Safety...
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Psychology students organise Brain Bee event
A group of second and third year undergraduate Psychology students organised a local Brain Bee event in Aberdeen in February 2018, coordinated and managed by Ludmila Kucikova (year 3). Students from the Business School and Medical/Biomedical Sciences also volunteered. The Brain Bee aims to motivate 14-18 year olds to learn more...
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British Psychological Society Undergraduate Conference
Thirteen of our undergraduate final year students presented their thesis project work at the British Psychological Society (BPS) Undergraduate conference, at the University of Glasgow on March 24th. The projects were wide ranging, spanning areas of Cognition, Language, Education, Clinical Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Social Psychology, Emotion, and Aging. They did...