Available supervisors
Dr Soufiane Boufous
Areas of research: road safety
Tel: +61 2 9385 6227
Email: soufiane@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Reporting of aviation crashes in Australian newspapers
Suggested topics include:
- Airline safety in the age of social media
- The analysis of digital flight data to monitor the performance of flying students
- Factors that contribute to pilot shortage in Australia
- Data integration and aviation safety
Dr Carlo Caponecchia
Areas of research: human factors and safety
Tel: +61 2 9385 7184
Email: carloc@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Investigating eye tracking technology as a tool to improve the visual scanning techniques of novice pilots
Suggested topics include:
- Improving the accessibility of air travel for people with disability
- Use and evaluation of international standards on safety management systems
- Validation of selection tests for trainee pilots
- Methods for providing feedback on trainee pilot visual scanning
- Reliability and usability of methods for understanding complex systems and incidents (e.g., FRAM)
- Safety management, practices and responsibilities for transnational operations
- Aviation health and wellbeing: physical and mental health of crew and passengers
- Improving Injury data classification and management
Dr Tay T.R. Koo
Areas of research: air transportation and freight services; human geography; commerce; management; tourism and services
Tel: +61 2 9385 6737
Email: t.koo@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Modelling public acceptance of recreational and commercial remotely piloted aircraft in Sydney
- Development and validation of airport dependency indices
- Exploratory study of the impact of significant ecotourism experience on voluntary carbon-offset behaviour of travellers
Suggested topics include:
- Modelling sustainable air travel choices and practices by consumers of aviation
- Commercial, recreational, research-based airborne drone management, policy, and governance
- Research methods in air route development for stakeholders such as airports and tourism
- Methods and tools for mapping spatial and temporal dynamics of the air transport-tourism system
Professor Brett Molesworth
Areas of research: human factors and aviation safety; pilot risk management; aviation (mis)communication; noise effects; pilot training and performance; cabin safety and passenger behaviour; human performance; remotely piloted aircraft
Tel: +61 2 9385 6757
Email: b.molesworth@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Using EEG spectral components to assess the fatiguing effect of aircraft noise
- Effect of tone of feedback on the performance of student pilots
- Investigating predictors of risk in the general population and the pilot population
- Pilot psychology: health and wellbeing
Suggested topics include:
- Road safety: reducing young drivers’ speed behaviour
- Aviation Safety: Reducing pilots’ miscommunication
- Aviation Safety: Effect of visual and auditory feedback on student pilots’ learning outcome
- Aviation Safety: Improving passengers’ recall of information presented in the pre-flight safety briefing
- Road safety: training young novice drivers where to look to improve speed management
- Aviation Safety: Understanding communication errors between pilots and air traffic control
- Aviation Safety: Improving pilots risk management through cognitive integration training
Dr Mirjam Wiedemann
Areas of research: airports, drones, sustainable aviation, aerotropolis/airport city, regional economic development (including tourism strategies), aviation finance strategies and economics, aviation strategic management
Tel: +61 2 9348 1689
Email: m.wiedemann@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Safety considerations of hydrogen refuelling stations in the airport environment
- How to facilitate tacit knowledge spillover between companies in different industries in an Aerotropolis
- Evaluating Air Transport Barriers to Tourism Development in Island States and How Air Service Subsidy Scheme Can Help to Overcome such Barriers – A Case Study: The Maldives North & South Regions
Suggested topics include:
- Integration of advanced and sustainable aviation technologies into the airport master plan
- Private-public-partnerships for a drone taxi public transport service
- Aerotropolis successes and failures: factors, methods and tools
- Drones for regional integration and prosperity
- Economic development in airport regions
- Airport and Region: Interfaces and stakeholders
- Integration of hydrogen as a fuel in the airport environment and on the road
- Electric flight infrastructure for airports and regions
- Drone infrastructure for airports and regions
- Cost-benefit analysis for new aviation technologies: drones, hydrogen and electric flight
- Life cycle analysis for new aviation technologies: drones, hydrogen and electric flight
Associate Professor Richard CL Wu
Areas of research: airline management/performance
Tel: +61 2 9385 4191
Email: c.l.wu@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- The impact of personalised mobile marketing on passenger shopping behaviours in the airport terminal
- Assessing the effect of textual and visual information presentation on the usability of airline web interface with eye-tracker and EEG
- The impact of personalised mobile marketing on passenger shopping behaviours in the airport terminal
- Understanding and predicting consumer behaviour based on an analysis of clickstream and frequent flyer data
- Effects of enterprise bargaining and agreement clauses on operating cost of airline ground crew scheduling
Suggested topics include:
- Data models on passenger movement patterns in an airport terminal
- Visual attention of passengers in airport retail shops
- Air passenger retail purchase modelling and airport terminal space design
- Reinforcement learning models in airline scheduling