Liz Hellier

Liz Hellier

Job title: Associate Professor (Reader) in Psychology, School of Psychology (Faculty of Science and Technology)
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Telephone: +441752584831
Email: E.Hellier@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Associate Head of School, Learning & Teaching
Enterprise Research Fellow

Qualifications & background

Liz received her BSc and PhD degrees in Psychology from the University of Plymouth in 1988 and 1991 respectively. After obtaining her doctorate she worked as a Senior Psychologist for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in Farnbrough before returning to academia in 1994 to take up a Lectureship in Applied Psychology at the City University in London. In 1999 she returned to the Psychology Department in Plymouth where she now works as a Principal Lecturer.

Professional membership

Registered member of the Ergonomics Society (UK)

Associate fellow of Bristish Psychological Society
Associate of Emergency Planning Society

Roles on external bodies

Teaching interests

Associate Head of School, Learning and Teaching
Human Factors

Research in Applied Settings

Warning Design

Staff serving as external examiners

Research interests

I am a member of the Center for Thinking and Language based in the Psychology Department at the University of Plymouth. My general research interests are in applied cognitive psychology and human factors. Specifically, my research focusses on the design and implementation of auditory and visual warning systems, risk communication amd behavioural compliance. I am a member of the Ergonomics Society, and an Associate Fellow of British Psycological Society and an Associate of the Emergency Planning Society.

Other research

Recent Conferences (Invited Participation)

Edworthy, J., Hellier, E.J., Walters, K., Weedon, B. & Adams, A.S. (2003) Auditory warnings and performance. Heymans Colloquium, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2002.

Edworthy, J & Hellier, E (2003) Patient Safety and Monitoring: Alarms and Displays. EPSRC Life sciences interface network on patient monitoring and physiological measurement, University of Manchester, April 2003

Edworthy, J & Hellier, E (2003) Urgency in speech warnings. 8th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2003

Hellier, E. & Edworthy, J (2002). The design and implementation of auditroy and visual warning systems. IBC Global Conferences, Supporting Control Centre Design and Operations. London, Dec 2002.

Edworthy, J & Hellier, E (2002) Designing urgency into sound. Annual conference of the UK Institute of Acoustics, Manchester University, March 2002.

Edworthy, J. & Hellier, E (2002) Designing urgency into sound. Paper presented at ‘Design sonore’ (Societe francaise d’acoustique), Paris, March 2002

Edworthy, J, Hellier, E, Lambell, N, Grey, C, Aldrich, K & Lee, A (2001) Linguistic and location effects in compliance to pesticide warning labels. Annual meeting of the European Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting, Turin, November 2001.

Edworthy, J, Hellier, E, Lambell, N, Grey, C, Aldrich, K & Lee, A (2001) Factors affecting compliance to pesticide warning labels. Presented to the South west branch of the Ergonomics Society, University of Plymouth, September 2001.

Edworthy, J, Hellier, E, Lambell, N, Grey, C, Aldrich, K & Lee, A (2001) The Effectiveness of Labelling of Pesticides. Presented to the Health and Safety Executive, Bootle, Lancs, October 2001.

Hellier, E., Weedon, B. Edworthy, J. & Walters, K. (2000) Using Psychophysics to Design Speech Warnings. Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of America, SanDiego, July 2000.

Edworthy, J, Hellier, E., Walters, K, Weedon, B. &. Adams, A. (2000) The Relationship between Task Performance, Reaction Time, and Perceied Urgerncy in NonVerbal Auditory Warnings. Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of America, SanDiego, July 2000.

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Grants & contracts

Alarms and alerts guidance and evaluation tool (£19,784)2008-09 Greenstreet Berman Ltd/Rail Safety & Standards Board (with Prof Edworthy)

Evaluating the Application of Evidence-Based Guidance to the Design of Emergency Communication Literature (£62,315) 2008-2009. Home Office/Cabinet Office (Hellier, Newbold & Edworthy)

Making revision seminars more effective (£5,905).
2008-2009. Higher Education Academy.
(Andrade, Auburn, Hellier, Dennis, White, Hyland & Tubman)

Evidence based practice for road safety practitioners. (£109, 635).

2008-2010 Knowledge Transfer Partnership in collaboration with ESRC/Devon County Council and Hellier & Hewson (Maths & Stats, UOP).

Factors that Influence information spread and reliability. (£292,000)
2006–2008 Home Office CBRN (Hellier & Edworthy)

Human Factors Guide to Managing Alarms and Alerts in the Rail Industry. (£140,000)
2004 Rail Safety Standards Board. (with Professor Edworthy)

Adaptive Systems and Tailored Information. (£40,000)
2003 MRC Patient Safety Network (with Professor Edworthy & Professor Jones)

Identification of Factors Influencing Perceived Urgency in Speech (£5, 500)
2001 QinetiQ (with Dr Edworthy)

The effectiveness of pesticide labelling (£74, 000)
1999-2001 Health & Safety Executive, Department of Trade & Industry, Ministry of Agriculture Food & Fisheries (with Dr Edworthy)

Behavioural responses to speech and non-speech warnings. (£148, 000)
1998-2000 EPSRC

The Human Factors in Analytical Measurement (£10,000)
2000 Laboratory of the Government Chemist (with Dr Edworthy)

The Public Perception of Genetically Modified Foods (£10,975)
2000 QR (with Neil Coulson & Dr J Edworthy)

Quantifying the effects of signal words on perceptions of hazard. (£3,000)
1996 -1998 Nuffield Foundation Award for New Lecturers in Science

Conferences organised

Adaptive Systems and Tailored Information. MRC Patient Safety Network Launch Event. April, 2004, Birmingham, UK.

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