Research papers

'I’m a Pilot First, Female Second': Why Flight Deck Gender Imbalance Persists and the Case for Allyship

Why is there greater gender parity for long-haul truck drivers, astronauts, and paleontologists than for women airline captains? This study uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the underlying causes of the gender imb…

Aviation Culture: a ‘Glass Sky’ for Women Pilots - Literature Review

This paper reports on a review of literature covering gender issues in aviation. It considers the impacts of aviation culture on women pilots.

Difference in attitudes toward Crew Resource Management based on nationality

The E-3A Airborne Early Warning and Control System aircraft operates with multinational crewmembers from 15 different nations on 12 different aircrew positions.

Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Benchmark Safety Culture in Aviation Organizations

While organizations are increasingly encouraged to evaluate safety culture in the context of measurement of leading safety indicators within a safety management system, there remains no generally agreed upon means by whi…

Measurable Outcomes of Safety Culture in Aviation - A Meta-Analytic Review

Though the complimentary concepts of safety culture and safety climate have become increasingly popular over the past three decades, they have only infrequently been central to research designed to examine the empirical …