Dr Janet Anderson

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Job Title Risk - Programme Director

Dr. Janet Anderson is a Research Fellow in the Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre. She worked for many years as a clinical psychologist in hospitals and private practice before receiving her PhD in psychology from the ARC Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Queensland. She held a research post at the Monash University Accident Research Centre in 2003/4 where she conducted research focussed on road safety. In 2004 she joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in Ergonomics where she designed and directed a Master’s programme in Systems, Safety and Ergonomics and developed a programme of research in patient safety.

Janet’s research interests are focussed on understanding human performance and safety in complex work domains such as healthcare. A particular interest is in understanding the demands on healthcare workers and developing ways to support them to be effective. Previous research has examined the operation of auditory perception and attention with auditory displays, medication errors in care homes, the use of system modelling frameworks for analysing errors in healthcare and the risks associated with medication packaging.  Current research projects include developing prospective hazard analysis tools for healthcare and examining the effectiveness of incident reporting systems in healthcare.

Dr. Janet Anderson is a Research Fellow in the Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre. She worked for many years as a clinical psychologist in hospitals and private practice before receiving her PhD in psychology from the ARC Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Queensland. She held a research post at the Monash University Accident Research Centre in 2003/4 where she conducted research focussed on road safety. In 2004 she joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in Ergonomics where she designed and directed a Master’s programme in Systems, Safety and Ergonomics and developed a programme of research in patient safety.

 

Janet’s research interests are focussed on understanding human performance and safety in complex work domains such as healthcare. A particular interest is in understanding the demands on healthcare workers and developing ways to support them to be effective. Previous research has examined the operation of auditory perception and attention with auditory displays, medication errors in care homes, the use of system modelling frameworks for analysing errors in healthcare and the risks associated with medication packaging.  Current research projects include developing prospective hazard analysis tools for healthcare and examining the effectiveness of incident reporting systems in healthcare. 

Dr. Janet Anderson is a Research Fellow in the Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre. She worked for many years as a clinical psychologist in hospitals and private practice before receiving her PhD in psychology from the ARC Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Queensland. She held a research post at the Monash University Accident Research Centre in 2003/4 where she conducted research focussed on road safety. In 2004 she joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in Ergonomics where she designed and directed a Master’s programme in Systems, Safety and Ergonomics and developed a programme of research in patient safety.

 

Janet’s research interests are focussed on understanding human performance and safety in complex work domains such as healthcare. A particular interest is in understanding the demands on healthcare workers and developing ways to support them to be effective. Previous research has examined the operation of auditory perception and attention with auditory displays, medication errors in care homes, the use of system modelling frameworks for analysing errors in healthcare and the risks associated with medication packaging.  Current research projects include developing prospective hazard analysis tools for healthcare and examining the effectiveness of incident reporting systems in healthcare.