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Biography

Professionally, Kirstie has worked as an Aviation Psychologist since 1983 when she joined the Commonwealth Department of Aviation (now, CASA) in the area of specialist staff selection and validation of Licensing Examinations.

Kirstie has also worked as a Principal Research Officer (Human Factors) with the Federal Office of Road Safety, before taking up a Post-Graduate Research Fellowship (Human Factors) with the Department of Defence. This Fellowship involved working on cognitive aspects of visual displays for command and control systems, at the ANU in Canberra.

Kirstie joined the Aviation Department at the University of Newcastle in 1993. Now in the School of Psychology, Kirstie is the Program Convenor for the Master of Aviation Management while also teaching into the Psychology undergraduate program.

Kirstie is currently carrying out research towards a PhD and is a member of the Australian Association for Aviation Psychology, the Australian Psychological Society and the Ergonomics Society of Australia.

Qualifications

  • Master of Science, Australian National University
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Psychology), Australian National University

Research

Research keywords

  • Human Factors
  • Organisational Psychology

Research expertise

  • Psychology

Fields of Research

CodeDescriptionPercentage
170199Psychology Not Elsewhere Classified65
090199Aerospace Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified35

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

  • Member - Australian Psychological Society

Teaching

Teaching keywords

  • Human Factors
  • Organisational Psychology
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Publications

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Grants and Funding

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Research Supervision

Number of current supervisions0

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Ms Christine (Kirstie) Carrick

Work Phone(02) 4921 7396
Cell / Mobile Phone0416810238
Fax(02) 4921 8742
Email
PositionProgram Convenor
School of Psychology
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Focus AreaAviation Management
Office
AVG17,
Aviation,
Callaghan
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia
URL:www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/kirstie-carrick
Linkhttp://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/psychology/our_staff/carrick_kirstie.html