
Applied Psychology Lab @Psychology_UON | Research: Driving🚗, Reading📚, Dyslexia, Language🗣, Eyewitnesses👀, Juries👩🏽⚖️
Newcastle, Australia
Joined October 2021
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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…
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
Dr @rachaelawynne introducing PSYC300 students to the basics of human factors, with the @AppliedPsychLab in attendance for their first undergrad lecture in years!
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
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!
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.
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.
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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
Our lab member 👩🔬🧪of the week is Melissa Freire! Melissa (@MelissaRFreire) is a Research Associate within 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
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.
Our lab member of the week 👩🔬🧪 this week is Dr Cassandra Gauld! @CassandraGauld applies psychological theory to investigate risky road user behaviour 🚗 and develop theoretically based public education messages 📢
Starting our "Lab Member of the Week"👩🔬🧪 with our lab head Professor Kristen Pammer!
Kristen is our Head of School @Psychology_UON. Kristen's research interests include visual attention👁️, hazard detection & SA in driving🚗, dyslexia, reading📖, language🗣️& indigenous literacy.











