Postgraduate Researcher
Jill became interested in Human Factors during her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Supervised by Dr Amy Irwin, she investigated safety culture and non-technical skills in agriculture workers for her undergraduate thesis. She remains an associate member of the University of Aberdeen's Applied Psychology and Human Factors group. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the Psychology Applied to Safety and Health Lab at Leeds Beckett University investigating Human Factors in telemedicine.
A domain that has always held an attraction is Agriculture, and even more so with the development of technology that is being utilised to enable fewer people on a farm to do a lot more. From GPS enabled tractors to …