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Professor Rhona Flin, BSc, PhD, Professor of Applied Psychology, University of Aberdeen

Professor Flin is a Chartered Psychologist, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Since 1989, Professor Flin has directed a team of psychologists working with high reliability industries (especially in the energy sector) on research and consultancy projects concerned with the management of safety and emergency response.

Recent projects have included aviation safety (funded by EC and CAA), leadership and safety in offshore management (funded by HSE and the oil industry), health management and safety in the offshore oil industry (HSE), team skills and emergency management (funded by the nuclear industry), and anaesthetists’ and surgeons’ non-clinical skills (funded by NHSES/ RCS, Edinburgh).  
Rhona Flin


Rhona Flin books include Incident Command: Tales from the Hot Seat (ed. & Arbuthnot, Ashgate, 2002); Sitting in the Hot Seat: Leaders and Teams for Critical Incident Management (Wiley, 1996), Managing the Offshore Installation Workforce (ed. & Slaven, PennWell Books, 1996) and Decision Making under Stress (ed. & Salas, Strub & Martin, Ashgate, 1997).