Dr Katie Plant is a lecturer in Human Factors Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. She is the author of ‘Distribution Cognition and Reality: How Pilots and Crews Make Decisions’ (CRC Press, 2016) and was awarded the Honourable Company of Air Pilots award for Aviation Safety Research in 2014. Katie runs an undergraduate module called ‘Human Factors in Engineering’ and project manages the University of Southampton’s contribution to the Open Flight Deck project.