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Philippe Kilpatrick

Philippe Kilpatrick

Australian psychologist and human factors specialist focused on aviation safety, air traffic control, and work systems design; guest on The 20 Minute Career podcast.

Sep 8, 2026

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of open as many doors as I could.
2:33
After I finished year 12, I went into a Bachelor of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia and then did honours after that.
2:40
I wanted to kind of take a bit of time to figure out where I wanted to apply these and had about three or four years off working a job in road transport as a forklift driver and doing a lot of things I enjoyed, travelling, playing music, surfing, things like that.
2:53
And during that process was really looking around to see how psychology could be applied outside of what a lot of people think of when they think of a psychologist, which is, you know, that sort of therapeutic practice.
3:02
And through there, found that there were psychologists who worked in the space industry on training astronauts.
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And there's a lot of operational environments where people work, where there is actually a lot of applied psychological science.
3:15
So that drew me towards doing a Master's of Industrial and Organizational Psychology also at UWA.
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