PRESENTATIONS
Below are videos of some of my recent presentations, followed by a selected list of presentations at international conferences.
Presentation Videos
Culture in the Cockpit (2024)
Culture in the Cockpit (2024)
CVR Data Unavailable (2023)
Misrepresenting Reality (2022)
July 2024
Making sense of culture in the cockpit: The crash of Japan Airlines flight 1045. 12th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Nice, France, July 24-27.
July 2023
CVR data unavailable: A study of 52 airline accidents & incidents 2014-2022. 11th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 20-24.
July 2022
Misrepresenting reality: Limitations of accident documentaries for airline pilot training. 10th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Manhattan, NY, USA, July 24-28.
July 2021
Communication on the flight deck: What lessons can we learn from past accidents? 9th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Manhattan, NY, USA, July 25-29.
July 2020
Towards a glossary of aviation communication factors. 8th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, San Diego, CA, USA, July 16-20.
July 2019
Overwritten or unrecorded: A study of accidents & incidents in which CVR Data were not available. 7th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Washington DC, USA, July 24-28.
May 2019
Learning from the past: Airline accidents & the ICAO language proficiency program. 20th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, OH, USA, May 7-10.
July 2018
Intercultural communication on the flightdeck: A review of studies in aviation. 6th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Orlando, FL, USA, July 21-25.
July 2017
Communication at risk in the cockpit: Human factors and the ICAO language proficiency program. 5th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 17-21.
May 2017
The concept of communication breakdown: Useful fallacy or time for overhaul? 19th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, OH, USA, May 8-11.
August 2016
Ready for departure: Aviation English for Japanese students on an ab initio pilot training program. 8th International Conference on ESP in Asia, Tokyo, Japan, August 19-21.
July 2016
Culture in the cockpit: The impact of cultural factors on CRM training for airline flight crews. 5th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making, Orlando, FL, USA, July 27-31.
July 2016
An important failure: Lessons from Daedalus and Icarus. 4th International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, Orlando, FL, USA, July 27-31.
May 2015
“We need priority please” - Mitigated speech in the crash of Avianca flight 052. 18th ISAP International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, OH, USA, May 4-7.
March 2012
Power distance and language anxiety during ab initio flight training of Japanese cadets in New Zealand. RAeS Aircraft Commander in the 21st Century Conference, London, UK, March 20-21.
May 2011
Zagreb, Tenerife and Cove Neck: Revisiting the assumptions underlying ICAO's language proficiency programme. 16th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, OH, USA, May 2-5.
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“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
(Murphy’s Law/Colonel Stapp)
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