• tjh72@eng.cam.ac.uk
  • +44 1223 332 828

Dr Tim Horberry

Tim Horberry
Senior Research Associate (part time)

  • BA (Hons), MSc, MIEHF, PhD

Tim is a Senior Research Associate (part time) in the EDC. He is also Associate Professor of Human Factors at the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre, University of Queensland in Australia.

Dr Horberry’s background is in transport and industrial safety; this includes equipment safety, design of new technologies, human error, psychological road audits and driver performance.

At Cambridge, Tim holds an EC Marie Curie Fellowship ‘Safety in Design Ergonomics’. This ongoing research aims to better integrate safe design, human factors and risk management. It will be applied to mobile mining equipment, transport safety and potentially medical equipment.

Dr Horberry currently supervises 7 PhD students in Australia. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including 4 books.

His research interests are: Human Factors, Safety in Design / Prevention through Design, Cognitive Ergonomics, Transport Safety and Industrial & Mining Safety.

Selected Publications

  • Tim's 2011 publications are:
  • Horberry, T (2011) Safe design of mobile equipment traffic management systems. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 41 5: 551-560.
  • Li, X., Mckee, D.J., Horberry, T. and Powell, M.S. (2011) The control room operator: The forgotten element in mineral process control. Minerals Engineering, 24 8: 894-902.
  • Edquist, J., Horberry, T., Hosking, S. and Johnston, I. (2011) Effects of advertising billboards on simulated driving. Applied Ergonomics, 42 4: 619-626.
  • Horberry, T., Cooke, T., Li, X. and Marling, G. (2011) Operator decision making in the minerals industry. The Ergonomics Open Journal, 4 S2-M3: 103-111.
  • Horberry, T., Burgess-Limerick, R.and Steiner, L. (2011). Human factors for the design, operation, and maintenance of mining equipment. Authored book. Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A: CRC Press.
  • Cooke, T. and Horberry, T.(2011). Driver satisfaction with a modified proximity detection system in mine haul trucks following an accident investigation. In: Rebecca Mitchell, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.47th Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, Sydney, 7-9 November 2011.
  • Lynas, D. and Horberry, T. (2011) Human factor issues with automated mining equipment. The Ergonomics Open Journal, 4 S2-M3: 74-80.
  • Horberry, T. Lynas, D., Franks, D., Barnes, R. and Brereton, D (2011). Brave new mine: Examining the human factors implications of automation and remote operation in mining. In: Second International Future Mining Conference, Sydney, Australia, 22 - 23 November 2011.
  • Cooke, T. and Horberry, T. (2011). Human factors in the design and deployment of proximity detection systems for mobile mining equipment. In Martin Anderson (Ed.), Contemporary ergonomics and human factors 2011 Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Cooke, T. and Horberry, T. (2011). The operability and maintainability analysis technique : Integrating task and risk analysis in the safe design of industrial equipment. In Martin Anderson (Ed.), Contemporary ergonomics and human factors 2011 Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group
  • Lynas, D. and Horberry, T. (2011) A review of Australian human factors research and stakeholder opinions regarding mines of the future. Ergonomics Australia, 11 44: 1-5.

Full Publications List

Contact Information

The University of Cambridge,
Department of Engineering,
Trumpington Street,
Cambridge,
CB2 1PZ
UNITED KINGDOM

Phone: +44 1223 332 828

Fax: +44 1223 332662


Email: tjh72@eng.cam.ac.uk