Contact Dr Laura Lacey
- Email: l.lacey@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Defence Systems Engineering
Background
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Current activities
Dr Lacey's teaching includes availability, reliability, maintainability, system effectiveness and airworthiness on a range of University courses including Military Aerospace and Airworthiness MSc, Through-life System Sustainment MSc and Military Vehicle Technology MSc. She supervises PhD and MSc students from a wide-range of disciplines.
Current research interests include 'Availability definitions' and No Fault Found and Airworthiness.
Clients
- Ministry of Defence
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Spayne P, Lacey L, Cahillane M & Saddington A. (2024). Operating itself safely: merging the concepts of ‘safe to operate’ and ‘operate safely’ for lethal autonomous weapons systems containing artificial intelligence. Defence Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print)
- Farnell GP, Saddington AJ & Lacey LJ. (2019). A new systems engineering structured assurance methodology for complex systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 183
Conference Papers
- Hockley C & Lacey L. (2017). A Research Study of no Fault Found (NFF) in the Royal Air Force
- Hockley CJ & Lacey L. (2015). No Fault Found and Air Safety
- Hockley WCCJ & Lacey L. (2011). Implementation of condition based maintenance (CBM) and health & usage monitoring systems in the UK defence land environment
Books
- Thompson J & Lacey L. (2017). Insights into the Maintenance Test Effectiveness In Decision Engineering. Springer International Publishing.
- Hockley CJ, Smith JC & Lacey LJ. (2011). Contracting for Availability and Capability in the Defence Environment In Ng I, Parry G, Wild PJ, McFarlane D & Tasker P (eds), Decision Engineering. Springer London.
- Hockley CJ, Zagorecki AT & Lacey LJ. (2011). Enabling Support Solutions in the Defence Environment In Ng I, Parry G, Wild PJ, McFarlane D & Tasker P (eds), Decision Engineering. Springer London.
