Knowledge transfer
About Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is a UK-wide programme, funded by the Technology Strategy Board with 19 other funding organisations. KTP is essentially a partnership between a business and an academic institution that facilitates mutually beneficial access to skills and expertise to help the business and academic associate develop. KTP’s support companies needing expertise as well as financial assistance in order to achieve their strategic goals. KTP’s are part-funded by a
government grant of up to two-thirds of the project costs. This funding is from two research councils: 50 per cent Economic and Social Research Council and 50 per cent Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). KTP’s address strategic business needs and improve the competitiveness, productivity and performance of forward-thinking businesses. With a proven track record, KTP’s have been helping businesses for nearly 40 years to increase their profitability through collaborative partnerships with further and higher education institutions.
For more information about the Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme at The University of Nottingham, visit
www.nottingham.ac.uk/ktp
industry with a clear way forward for addressing NTS across all rail safety critical roles. This will be achieved through working closely with rail industry representatives to test the usefulness and value of incorporating NTS into the CMS of safety critical roles in the rail industry. In so doing, the KTP will answer the following questions:
• does the incorporation of NTS into CMS systems reduce incidents and accidents and raise performance - both from a human and financial perspective?
• do certain NTS contribute disproportionately to safety performance so require prioritisation over others?
• how can effective NTS be delivered with minimum disruption to operations?
• how can NTS competency be assessed?
Recognising vulnerabilities Capitalising on The University of Nottingham’s internationally acclaimed knowledge of rail human factors and Arcadia Alive’s wealth of experience
delivering NTS and human factors programmes, the KTP will ultimately lead to a safer workforce consisting of individuals who, whether they are directly involved in safety or provide a supporting role, will be able to recognise their own vulnerabilities whatever the situation, and be confident in proactively addressing these using a range of tools and techniques that can flex and change according to their career stage. The project’s scope reaches beyond the
UK rail industry, with plans to extend the learnings to international rail industries and other safety critical domains where operators are required to maintain high levels of concentration and situational awareness, for example oil and gas industries, the military and commercial driving.
A formidable team The KTP team consists of a formidable mix of experience and skills: Dr Ruth Madigan is the KTP associate who will be at the chalk face of the KTP’s collaborative work with the industry. She recently completed a PhD in ‘Learning to drive: from hazard detection to hazard handling’, the recommendations of which are currently being considered by the Irish government. She has lectured in human factors and applied cognitive psychology, covering topics including human error, situation awareness, perception, attention, judgement, and decision making. Dr David Golightly is a senior research
fellow at the University of Nottingham Human Factors Research Group (HFRG) and has led human factors research in both academia and commercial organisations, including projects on signaller situation awareness, track-worker safety and intelligent infrastructure. David currently leads Nottingham’s involvement in the EU FP7 On-Time project, which covers driver skills and driver advisory technology. Sarah Sharples, Professor of Human
Factors at the University of Nottingham has been a grant holder on a number of industrial, government and EU funded
projects, including a long-term programme of research for Network Rail examining implications, design and implementation of novel interfaces for railway control and use of rail simulation for human factors research. Richard Madders is managing director
of Arcadia Alive, a human factors and behavioural change consultancy that has delivered NTS training to the rail industry for more than 12 years. Madders has more than 14 years’ experience of delivering major change programmes nationally and internationally and has designed, developed and delivered human factors and behavioural safety programmes for the UK rail industry since joining Arcadia Alive in 2007. Said Madders: ‘The benefits for the rail
industry will be huge, especially in light of the imminent technological change and driver training challenges presented by the European Rail Traffic Management System, and the unremitting pressure on Toc’s to continually improve their safety performance while reducing their operational costs.’ The project will take just over two
years. The starting point for Dr Madigan has been to recently establish an industry advisory group that will ensure the complex needs of all safety critical (and supporting) roles and industry experts are addressed. The group consists of a diverse cross-section of industry representatives: Toc’s, Foc’s, Network Rail, the RSSB, the Office of Rail Regulation and rail unions. The group is currently working collaboratively to fully define the project requirements and to share existing data and knowledge. The NTS safety model that comes from this painstaking work with the group will be piloted in 2014 with a selected Toc before launching in early 2016.
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If you are a member of a rail organisation and interested in being part of the industry advisory group, or would like to find out more about the KTP project, then contact Dr Ruth Madigan at
ruth.madigan@
arcadiaalive.com.
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