Lead supervisor:
Prof Robert Honey 
Start date: October 2015
Award: General
Subject Pathway:
Psychology
Thematic Cluster:
Language, Learning and Behaviour Cluster
Identifying the non-technical skills used by UK Fire and Rescue Service (UK FRS) incident commanders when dealing with emergencies
Aims to develop a behavioural marker system based on the UK FRS non-technical skills (termed command skills) identified by his earlier research. With the support of the Chief Fire Officers' Association, a group of subject matter experts will:
- Determine a suitable means to rate the performance of command skills by incident commanders during training simulations
- Identify a range of positive and negative behaviours associated with each command skill to develop a behavioural marker system
- Conduct a preliminary evaluation the behavioural marker system to ensure inter-rater reliability between independent raters is consistent and highly correlates.