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Areas of expertise
- Air Transport Safety & Investigation
- Ergonomics, Human Factors, Driver Safety
- Human Factors
- Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability
Background
Wesley Chan is a PhD candidate at the Cranfield University School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing. He is a current Boeing 747/777 pilot and is a Multi-Crew Cooperation and Crew Resource Management trainer for an international airline based in Hong Kong. He also lectured Human Factors and Aviation Research for the University of South Australia and RMIT University, Australia. Wesley holds an MSc in Aviation Human Factors from Coventry University, England, graduating with faculty awards of Best MSc Research Project and Best MSc Student.
Research opportunities
Wesley's interests are on the effects of culture on aviation safety, examined from instructional systems design and accident investigation perspectives, and applied to human-computer interaction concepts. His present research focuses on using culturally-nomadic, non-binary methods in the categorisation of cultural behaviours, and an exploration of culture's consequences in safety and training management. He has published over a dozen papers related to safety, occupational, and organisational cultures, crew resource management, flight crew training, and accident investigation methodologies.
Currently, Wesley is interested to collaborate with fellow researchers and share his industrial expertise on the following topics:
- Culture
- Accident investigation
- Safety management
- Instructional systems design
- Training development
- Crew resource management
- Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS)
Current activities
Wesley is a member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI), AsiaSASI Human Factors Working Group, and previously served on the Hong Kong Air Line Pilots' Association Technical and Safety Committee. Recently, he was the session chair on the topic of 'Safety Cultures in Socio-Technical Systems' in the Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics Conference (HCII 2022), and his research on the adaptation of training needs on the basis of cultural and training backgrounds won the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS 2023). Wesley is actively involved in developing Multi-Crew Cooperation training courses for airline cadet pilots, and is currently conducting research on the optimisation of safety and training management approaches in airline and flight crew training by integrating safety management techniques from other high reliability industries.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Chan WT-K, Li W-C & Braithwaite G. (2025). Pilots’ training backgrounds affecting the attribution of event causal factors and airline safety management. Journal of Air Transport Management, 125
- Chan WT-K, Li W-C, Yeun R & Wang T. (2025). Creating more viable safety recommendations in accident investigation by revising the human factors intervention matrix (HFIX). International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 107
- Chan WT-K & Li W-C. (2023). Development of effective human factors interventions for aviation safety management. Frontiers in Public Health, 11
- Chan WT-K & Li W-C. (2022). Investigating professional values among pilots, cabin crew, ground staff, and managers to develop aviation safety management systems. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 92(November)
- Tsz-Kin Chan W & Harris D. (2019). Third-Culture Kid Pilots and Multi-Cultural Identity Effects on Pilots’ Attitudes. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, 90(12)
