About
A/Prof Chris Bearman
Chris Bearman's research involves conducting industry-focused studies in laboratory and field settings with the aim of creating results that have both a strong theoretical underpinning and a robust application to industry. This involves working closely with industry partners and government organizations around the world. Chris also supervises a number of PhD, Masters & Honours students in the Safety Science and Human Factors areas.
Project leadership
This project developed simple practical tools that can help people better manage their teamwork, improve their decision making and develop more creative solutions. These include the Team Process Checklist, Emergency Management Breakdown Aide Memoire, Psychological Safety Checklist and Cognitive Bias Aide Memoire. In addition, the project considered how organisations utilise the outcomes of research and developed a tool to help agencies utilise research more effectively. In addition to creating tools that help better manage teams and make more effective decisions, members of the project team have also developed methods to help people to act more creatively during operations. These tools have now seen excellent utilisation by emergency management agencies in Australia and have attracted growing interest from international partners in the UK and Spain.
This project was commissioned and funded entirely by Queensland Fire and Emergency Services..
Research team
| Type | Project | Research team |
|---|---|---|
| Commissioned Research | 2014 South Australia post-incident task force | jtrigg, srainbird, cbearman, Lyndsey Wright, jmclennan |
| Commissioned Research | 2015 Sampson Flat SA post-incident task force | cbearman, areynolds, lclarkson, rmatthews, lhaigh, ddawson |
27 Aug 2019
In this project we’ve developed a number of tools that can help people to better manage teams, make...
18 Sep 2018
The project is providing practical techniques and strategies to help people function in more...
30 Jun 2017
This project has three main research streams that are:Providing enhanced methods of making...
12 Aug 2016
This project has three main research streams that are:•Providing enhanced methods of making...
18 Aug 2015
The journey towards a mature system for managing safety has previously been imagined as a 'ladder'...
18 Aug 2015
This Project aims to provide enhanced ways of:Making decisions in complex situationsMonitoring...
25 Aug 2014
There is increasing pressure on agencies from larger-scale natural hazards, financial constraints...
25 Aug 2014
Phase models are a common way to frame decision making in emergency management.
