
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.
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Sep 8, 2026
What Is Human Factors? The Psychology Job That Focusses on Aviation Safety
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Philippe KilpatrickGUEST
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.

Philippe KilpatrickGUEST
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.

Philippe KilpatrickGUEST
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.

Philippe KilpatrickGUEST
And through there, found that there were psychologists who worked in the space industry on training astronauts.

Philippe KilpatrickGUEST
And there's a lot of operational environments where people work, where there is actually a lot of applied psychological science.

Philippe KilpatrickGUEST
So that drew me towards doing a Master's of Industrial and Organizational Psychology also at UWA.
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7:41Jane ButlerHOST
Are you using AI at all? Are you aware of how AI might impact the role in the future?