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Dr. Nick Mc Donald

Fellow Emeritus (Psychology)
199 PEARSE STREET
      
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Dr. Nick Mc Donald

Fellow Emeritus (Psychology)
199 PEARSE STREET

 Nick.McDonald@tcd.ie

 3531896 1471


2012 Founder Director of Centre for Innovative Human Systems, TCD 1994 -1996 Head of Department Department of Psychology, TCD 1989 - Founder member and chair of the Aerospace Psychology Research Group (APRG). 1993- Senior Lecturer Department of Psychology, TCD. 1978-93 Lecturer Department of Psychology, TCD. 1976-77 Research Associate Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, U.K. 1972-75 Research Assistant Department of Psychology, TCD. 1972-75 Lecturer Dublin College of Speech Therapy. Date of Birth: 20th October 1949 .
  Aviation Human Factors   Human & Organisational Factors   HUMAN FACTORS   Organisational safety culture   RISK ANALYSIS   RISK MANAGEMENT   Safety, reliabaility and innovation, organisational cultures
Project Title
 Future Sky Safety
From
01/01/2015
To
31/12/2018
Summary
The EC Flight Path 2050 vision aims to achieve the highest levels of safety to ensure that passengers and freight as well as the air transport system and its infrastructure are protected. However, trends in safety performance over the last decade indicate that the ACARE Vision 2020 safety goal of an 80% reduction of the accident rate is not being achieved. A stronger focus on safety is required. There is a need to start a Joint Research Programme (JRP) on Aviation Safety, aiming for Coordinated Safety Research as well as Safety Research Coordination. The proposed JRP Safety, established under coordination of EREA, is built on European safety priorities, around four main themes with each theme consisting of a small set of projects. Theme 1 (New solutions for today's accidents) aims for breakthrough research with the purpose of enabling a direct, specific, significant risk reduction in the medium term. Theme 2 (Strengthening the capability to manage risk) conducts research on processes and technologies to enable the aviation system actors to achieve near-total control over the safety risk in the air transport system. Theme 3 (Building ultra-resilient systems and operators) conducts research on the improvement of Systems and the Human Operator with the specific aim to improve safety performance under unanticipated circumstances. Theme 4 (Building ultra-resilient vehicles), aims at reducing the effect of external hazards on the aerial vehicle integrity, as well as improving the safety of the cabin environment. To really connect and drive complementary Safety R&D (by EREA) to safety priorities as put forward in the EASA European Aviation Safety plan (EASp) and the EC ACARE Strategic Research and Innovation (RIA)Agenda, Safety Research Coordination activities are proposed. Focus on key priorities that impact the safety level most will significantly increase the leverage effect of the complementary safety Research and Innovation actions planned and performed by EREA.
Funding Agency
H2020
Programme
MG-1.4-2014
Project Type
RIA
Person Months
24
Project Title
 Proactive Safety Performance for Operations
From
Sept 2012
To
Aug 2015
Summary
PROSPERO will integrate and distribute operational risk information throughout the Air Transport System
Funding Agency
European Commission
Programme
FP7 - Aeronautics
Project Type
Collaborative- Co-ordinator N.McDonald
Person Months
90
Project Title
 Managing System Change in Aviation
From
2010
To
2013
Summary
MASCA will deliver a change management system for the Air Transport System
Funding Agency
European Commission
Programme
FP7
Project Type
Collaborative - Co-ordinator N.McDonald
Person Months
62
Project Title
 Total Airport Security System
From
2010
To
2013
Summary
TASS is developing an integrated security information system for airports.
Funding Agency
European Commission
Programme
FP7
Project Type
Collaboration
Person Months
50
Project Title
 All Conditions Ops & Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure
From
2009
To
2013
Summary
ALICIA is developing new cockpit applications for all conditions operations
Funding Agency
European Commission
Programme
FP7
Project Type
Collaborative
Person Months
50

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Member of the Safety and Security Working Group of the Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE), responsible for drafting the human factors component of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. 2011-2019
Member of the Air Safety Working Group of the European Transport Safety Council 1998-2003
Member of the Human Factors Working Group of the Safety Committee of the ACARE Strategic Research Agenda 2004-5
International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Technical Committee on Aerospace Human Factors and Ergonomics
Editorial Board of Cognition, Technology and Work
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Basic Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Psychological Society of Ireland
Irish Ergonomics Society
European Association of Aviation Psychologists
McDonald N, McKenna L, Vining R, Doyle B, Liang J, Ward ME, Ulfvengren P, Geary U, Guilfoyle J, Shuhaiber A, Hernandez J, Fogarty M, Healy U, Tallon C, Brennan R., Evaluation of an Access-Risk-Knowledge (ARK) Platform for Governance of Risk and Change in Complex Socio-Technical Systems., International journal of environmental research and public health, 18, (23), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
McDonald, N., Callari, T.C., Baranzini, D. & Mattei, F., A Mindful Governance model for ultra-safe organisations, Safety Science, 120, 2019, p753 - 763, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Callari, T., C., McDonald, N., Kirwan, B. & Cartmale, K., Investigating and operationalising the mindful organising construct in an Air Traffic Control organisation, Safety Science, 120, 2019, p839 - 849, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Siobhán Corrigan, Alison Kay, Katie O'Byrne, Dubhfeasa Slattery, Sharon Sheehan, Nick McDonald, David Smyth, Ken Mealy and Sam Cromie, A Socio-Technical Exploration for Reducing & Mitigating the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Transferring Learning Across Safety-Critical Industries in, editor(s)Malcolm MacLachlan , Maritime Psychology Research in Organizational & Health Behavior at Sea, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp49 - 68, [Paul M. Liston, Alison Kay, Sam Cromie, Nick McDonald, Bill Kavanagh, Roddy Cooke, Peter Walter], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
T.C. Callari, N. Mc Donald, D. Baranzini, F. Mattei, The Emerging Safety Mindfulness Model: from Concept Definition into Requirements Collection, 16th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, Dublin, Ireland, 22-23 June 2017, 2017, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
McDonald, N., Kay, A., Morrison, R., & Ryan, M. , How Automation May Transform the Ways in Which Crew Manage Peak Workload and Incapacitation. , 19th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP 2017), Dayton, Ohio, 8-11 May 2017, 2017, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Cahill J., Morrison, R, Mc Donald N, Lynch D, The Operational Validation of New Cockpit Technologies Supporting All Conditions Operations: A Case Study, Cognition, Technology & Work, Volume 18, ( Issue 3), 2016, p479 - 509, Notes: [doi:10.1007/s10111-016-0380-4], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Corrigan, S. Martensson, L., Kay, A., McDonald, N., Implementing Collaborative Decision Making: Challenges & Recommendations., Journal of Cognition, Technology & Work, 17, (2), 2015, p207 - 218, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Corrigan, S., Zon, R., Maij, A., Martensson, L. McDonald, N., A Collaborative Learning Framework & Serious Game Development, Journal of Cognition, Technology & Work, 17, (2), 2015, p269 - 278, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
  

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Geary, U., Ward, M., Callan, V., Mc Donald, N & Corrigan, S, A socio-technical systems analysis of the application of RFID-enabled technology to the transport of precious laboratory samples in a large acute teaching hospital, Applied Ergonomics, 102, 2022, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103759], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Fallon, Enda, Galičič, Matja & O'Sullivan, Leonard W. (ed.), Factors in determining the level of causal analysis in healthcare incident investigations, Irish Ergonomics Society 2013, 9th May 2013, 2013, Proceedings of a Conference, PUBLISHED
N. McDonald and M. Ydalus, Can safety regulation in aviation be preventive rather than reactive?, AHFE - 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, San Francisco, 2012, 2012, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Nick McDonald, Marie Ward and Rabea Morrison, Achieving Impact in Ergonomic Research, 18th World Congress on Ergonomics - IEA 2012, Recife, Brazil, Feb. 2012, 2012, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Nicholas McDonald, Pernilla Ulfvengren, Morten Ydalus, A methodology for managing system change- An airline's development of a SMS and a performance management process, Eleventh Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (PSAM11) and the Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, 2012, 2012, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Cacciabue, C., Leva, M.C., McDonald, N., Corrigan, S., Ulfvengren, P., Licata, V., Ottomaniello, A., Baranzini, D. and Zon, R., Specification of a CMS model, Deliverable to EU Commisson as part of EU FP7 MASCA project, 2012, Report, PUBLISHED
State of the Art in, editor(s)Nick McDonald, Marie Ward, Pernilla Ulfvengren , HILAS Books 1, Deliverable to EU Commisson as part of EU FP6 HILAS project (AIP4-CT-2005-516181), 2009, [Nick McDonald ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Crisis of Practice in, editor(s)Nick McDonald, Marie Ward, Pernilla Ulfvengren , HILAS Books 1, Deliverable to EU Commisson as part of EU FP6 HILAS project (AIP4-CT-2005-516181), 2009, [Nick McDonald ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Impact in, editor(s)Nick McDonald, Marie Ward, Pernilla Ulfvengren , HILAS Books 1, Deliverable to EU Commisson as part of EU FP6 HILAS project (AIP4-CT-2005-516181), 2009, [Nick McDonald ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Human Factors & Organisational Change in, editor(s)McDonald, N., Ward, M. and Ulfvengren, P , HILAS Books 1: Transforming the Conceptual Framework of Human Factors, Deliverable to EU Commisson as part of EU FP6 HILAS project (AIP4-CT-2005-516181), 2009, [Nick McDonald ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Fellowship of Trinity College. 1995
International Ergonomics Association 2011 IEA/Liberty Mutual Medal 2011
Human factors and organisational aspects of safety in risk sensitive industries including aviation. Analysis and management of risk. Innovation and change in organisations. Technology design for operational systems. Human Factors and Organisational theory.