DSc, 2005, University of Nottingham
PhD, 1983, University of Birmingham
MSc, 1974, University of Loughborough
BTech, 1973, University of Loughborough
EurEng, 2001, CPsychol, 1990, CEng, 1985
Phone : 938 56157
Email : j.wilson@unsw.edu.au

Professor John R. Wilson is Professor of Human Factors and Risk in the School of Safety Science at University of New South Wales, holding this appointment jointly with that of Professor of Occupational Ergonomics in the School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham. He has previously held academic posts at the Universities of Loughborough, Birmingham and University of California, Berkeley. He has been founder and Director of The Institute for Occupational Ergonomics, the Virtual Reality Applications Research Team, and the Rail Human Factors Centre at Nottingham, and has been Human Factors Strategic Coordinator for Network Rail since 2001. He has produced over 500 publications, and more than 250 are in refereed books, journals or collections. He was awarded the Sir Frederic Bartlett Medal of the Ergonomics Society in 1995, for services to international ergonomics teaching and research. He has been principal investigator, grant holder or project manager on over 80 major grants from Research Councils, government, the European Union and public and charitable bodies as well as having carried out or managed research or consultancy for over 75 companies. He is a Chartered Psychologist and a Chartered Engineer, has been a member of the Peer Review College for both the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK, and is a Reviewer and Rapporteur for the European Commission. He is a member of Editorial Boards for a number of journals, is Associate Editor for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Ergonomics.

John’s areas of research and consultancy expertise include:

• Human factors of complex socio-technical systems
  
• Risk and human reliability
  
• Job design and team design
  
• Collaborative working environments and virtual team-working
  
• Cognitive processes, mental models, knowledge acquisition
  
• Human factors of planning and scheduling
  
• Participative processes in design and change implementation
  
• Product safety, testing and design
  
• Work and workplace design
  
• Virtual Reality and virtual environments – interaction, evaluation and applications
  
• Rail human factors