DTI SMART Awards 1994 & 1995  John Logie Baird Award  University Davidson Medal  IBM Post-Graduate Prize  Award-winning Aviation Safety & Human Factors Research
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Computer Scientist, Systems Analyst, aviation & air-traffic-control innovator, and author of the Narcissism Kills series. A career spent making mission-critical human systems safer — now turned on the most dangerous system of all: the Narcissist.

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Davidson Medal — obverse

In Memoriam Lt. Henry Steel Davidson KIA Festubert 1915, RIP

John Lyden

University Davidson Medal

Glasgow, Scotland. Awarded for distinction in Military Science — one of the university's highest honours, and the foundation of a career defined by rigorous, evidence-based analysis of how humans perform under pressure.

The background

Fifty years of changing behaviour by design

Extending back to 1976, John Lyden has a history of innovative insight in evolving strategies to change human behaviours and thinking — to improve safety and efficiency in environments where error costs lives.

His award-winning, world-leading research solved human-centric problems in Air Traffic Control, improving safety and offering the means to reduce and mitigate major incidents. The same lens — interrupts, memory failure, decision pressure — underpins the entire NarcKills framework.

Fields of expertise
  • Aviation & Air Traffic Control (ATC)
  • Mission-critical systems engineering
  • Automated decision-making support
  • Validation systems
  • Crew Resource Management
  • Training & human-factors design
1976
Innovating in human-behaviour systems since
World firsts
Multiple award-winning systems-engineering achievements
Mission-critical
A career where human error is never an option
In his own words

“These are not Accidents. They occur not by accident but by result of human errors, including omissions.”

From the runway to the resus bay

Why aviation thinking belongs in Emergency Medicine

The Narcissist exploits exactly the human weaknesses that cause aviation disasters: failure of memory, distraction, loss of focus, loss of situational awareness, and interrupt-driven indecision.

The mission of the book series is not theory — it is to help clinicians and normal folk recognise, manage and reduce a real-world threat that rarely ends well for the unprepared.

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