Ceri Jones: Assessing Safety Culture and Safety Performance in a High Hazard Industry

We are pleased to share the news that Ceri Jones has been awarded her PhD in Applied Psychology by the University of Nottingham following the submission of her thesis and her viva voce examination. Her research was on Assessing Safety Culture and Safety Performance in a High Hazard Industry. Her examiners were: Dr Nigel Hunt (Internal: Division of Psychiatry & Applied Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham) and Professor Alistair Cheyne (External: Loughborough University Business School).

Ceri Jones currently works for Leicester University Hospitals as their Organisational Development Manager and with the Centre for Sustainable Working Life, School of Business, Economics & Informatics, Birkbeck University of London. Her doctoral research was supervised by Professor Tom Cox and Professor Amanda Griffiths then of the Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham.

Her success in being awarded a PhD follows on that of Dr Juliet Hassard who achieved her PhD in Applied Psychology earlier in 2013. Juliet Hassard, also a former member of the Institute o0f Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham, is now a Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, School of Business, Economics & Informatics, Birkbeck, University of London, and Assistant Director of the Centre for Sustainable Working Life.

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