Antoinette Caird-Daley BSc (Hons), BSc (Hons) Psych, MSc

Antoinette is a Research Fellow in the Department of Systems Engineering and Human Factors at Cranfield University. She holds a first class honours degree in Psychology from The Open University and an MSc in Applied Psychology from Cranfield University.

Antoinette is a member of the Defence Human Factors Group at Cranfield, where her research activities include the use of synthetic environments and commercial off the shelf games technology for serious training purposes, naturalistic decision making, the use of simulator systems to support team and collective training, the live synthetic balance question, and tools to support non Training Needs Analysis specialists in evaluating training options. She is undertaking doctoral research in the use of serious games to train decision making skills, under the supervision of Dr Don Harris. Antoinette has also conducted research investigating factors which influence passenger evacuation from accident stricken aircraft, and the risk perceptions of pre-drivers.

Antoinette is a Graduate member of the British Psychological Society and an Associate member of the Ergonomics Society, and holds British Psychological Society qualifications in occupational testing (level A and level B).

Antoinette lectures in organisational psychology, contributing to the organisational change and development, training and simulation, and inclusive design modules of Cranfield’s Ergonomics and Human Factors MSc courses. She is also completing a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education.

Prior to a career in Human Factors, Antoinette was a Chartered Surveyor working in general practice where she specialised in the valuation and management of commercial property for institutional and private clients. Her first degree in Urban Estate Surveying was awarded by The Nottingham Trent University.