Applied Psychology Lab @Psychology_UON | Research: Driving🚗, Reading📚, Dyslexia, Language🗣, Eyewitnesses👀, Juries👩🏽‍⚖️

Newcastle, Australia
Joined October 2021
Congratulations to @rachaelawynne and team (@HFE_UoS) on the release of their new book: “Human Factors on the Flight Deck”! 🎉✈️ You can purchase a copy of the book here: taylorfrancis.com/books/mono…
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Day 1 of EPC was EPiC! Especially @MelissaRFreire’s fantastic talk about culturally fair assessment of phonological awareness in an Indigenous context #EPC2023 @expsyaunz @Psychology_UON
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Dr @rachaelawynne introducing PSYC300 students to the basics of human factors, with the @AppliedPsychLab in attendance for their first undergrad lecture in years!
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Theme 3: How safe is my car Our lab is looking to the future: automated vehicles. Our driving simulator allows us to ethically understand the human-machine interactions that take place when driving an automated vehicle. Video: @rachaelawynne in automated mode. 4/7
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Our lab member of the month🔬on a very fitting day, is Sophie Withers! Sophie graduated today with an undergraduate degree (honours) in psychology. Sophie’s honours research focused on autonomous vehicles🚘, and Sophie is continuing this research with us as a research assistant!
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A huge congratulations to @MelissaRFreire who today submitted her PhD thesis!! 🎉🌟🍾😍Congratulations on this amazing achievement, Melissa! Extended congratulations to @PammerProf as Melissa's PhD supervisor.
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Our lab member of the week 👩‍🔬🧪this week is Dr @rachaelawynne ! Rachael is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences with a background in the areas of cognitive psychology and human factors. 🧵1/6
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Our lab member of the week 🧪🧑‍🔬this week is Angus McKerral! (@mckerralangus) Angus is a PhD Candidate within our lab. His research focuses on investigating factors that affect driver takeover capacity in highly-automated vehicles. 🧵 1/3
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Our lab member 👩‍🔬🧪of the week is Melissa Freire! Melissa (@MelissaRFreire) is a Research Associate with​in our lab. Melissa’s PhD research had an applied focus on understanding the epistemology of Indigenous learning structures, from a cognitive and perceptual perspective 🧵1/4
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Our lab member of the week 🧪👩‍🔬 this week is Dr Hayley Cullen! Hayley conducts research into eyewitness memory👁️, jury decision-making👩‍⚖️, and evidence-based policing🚔 She is committed to conducting research aiming to reduce wrongful convictions and give justice to victims.
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