Dr Shelly Jeffcott

B.Sc. Hons. (York, Psych.), Ph.D. (Glasgow, Comp Sci.)

Shelly’s previous research centred on links between organisational dynamics and culture in safety-critical industries.  This began with a PhD investigating risk perceptions and attitudes toward obstetric technologies, at the University of Glasgow's Accident Analysis Group (GAAG).  She was then based at the University of East Anglia’s Centre for Environmental Risk (CER), working on a two year Health and Safety Executive (HSE) project focusing on the impact of UK rail privatisation on safety culture and risk-taking behaviours.  After this Shelly spent two years at theUniversity of Cambridge’s Engineering Design Centre (EDC), where her contributions focused on how systems approaches and human factors methods can be successfully adapted to the medical domain in order to improve current risk management practice

Shelly is leading a human factors agenda within the CRE in Patient Safety (CREPS), in relation to human behaviour, culture and both system risk and resilience. Her growing research focus is blood transfusion safety and she is a founding member of a the Blood Research Interest Group based at Monash University’s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (DEPM).

Specific research projects include:

• ‘Optimizing Trauma Team Performance’, 2008-2009.
• ‘Reducing Patient Harm from Blood Transfusion’, 2009-2010.

Contact details: shelly.jeffcott@med.monash.edu.au