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 AJ. (2025). Operating itself safely: merging the concepts of ‘safe to operate’ and ‘operate safely’ for lethal autonomous weapons systems containing artificial intelligence. Defence Studies, 25(1)
- Farnell GP, Saddington AJ & Lacey LJ. (2018). A new systems engineering structured assurance methodology for complex systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 183