Christine Owen’s career history spans engagement in academia and industry to help people and organisations engaged in safety critical work to inquire into, learn from and, if needed, change their work practices.
Christine has worked with safety critical organisations for over 30 years, including the aviation field, emergency medicine, the fire and emergency services industry and in public safety. Christine researches and facilitates professional development in the areas of human factors and organisational culture; decision making under pressure; debriefing; and leadership and adversity, as well as coaching and mentoring. She has been engaged by industry in a number of practitioner reviews and evaluations. Christine is passionate about supporting organisations to utilise research outcomes and establish evidence-informed practice. She contributed to the development of the Emergency Services Professionalisation Standards for Level 3 Incident Management (AIIMS) capabilities, and the Leadership Development Framework for Victorian emergency services organisations. A summary CV follows.
Experience
Research and development projects for
Current projects
Past experience
Publications
Summary research metrics: Research gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christine_Owen2
OTHER INVOLVEMENTS
1994–current Member, Australian Psychological Society
1995 –1998 Member, National Executive, College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists
1997–1998 Chairperson, College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists . During this time I examined the changing nature of work and the challenges facing professionals to identify ways in which the APS and College could address member needs
1996–2005 Australian Aviation Psychology Association
2006–2008 Member, Technical Committee, Activity Theory and Work Design International Ergonomics Association. Participated as part of an international scientific committee to prepare a symposium at the International Cognitive Ergonomics Association Conference in Maastricht
2010–2012 Research Advisory Board member, Australian Emergency Management Institute
2011–2012 Member Professional Standards Group, Australasian Fire Authorities Council
2012–2013 Board Member, Australian Emergency Management Institute
- Strong educational leadership experience and facilitator of critical inquiry, organisation and team learning and change management;
- Long term track record in successful management of multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams to deliver products on time and within budget;
- A passion for developing critically reflective experiential problem-based learning resources in line with psychological and adult learning concepts;
- Successful completion of appropriate preparation and delivery of learning resources, as well as the development and implementation of assessment and learning strategies;
- Subject matter expertise in the fields of individual, group and organisational psychology, human factors, emergency management, research, education design and development as well as in teaching in higher education and vocational education sector.
Christine Owen’s career history spans engagement in academia and industry to help people and organisations engaged in safety critical work to inquire into, learn from and, if needed, change their work practices.
Christine has worked with safety critical organisations for over 30 years, including the aviation field, emergency medicine, the fire and emergency services industry and in public safety. Christine researches and facilitates professional development in the areas of human factors and organisational culture; decision making under pressure; debriefing; and leadership and adversity, as well as coaching and mentoring. She has been engaged by industry in a number of practitioner reviews and evaluations. Christine is passionate about supporting organisations to utilise research outcomes and establish evidence-informed practice. She contributed to the development of the Emergency Services Professionalisation Standards for Level 3 Incident Management (AIIMS) capabilities, and the Leadership Development Framework for Victorian emergency services organisations. A summary CV follows.
Experience
Research and development projects for
- Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience, Response and Recovery Aotearoa New Zealand,
- Queensland Fire and Emergency Services;
- Australian Emergency Management Institute;
- Australian Institute of Police Management;
- Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council (AFAC);
- Bushfire and Natural Hazards Co-operative Research Centre;
- Department of Sustainability and Environment;
- Emergency Services Victoria;
- Tasmania Fire Service.
Current projects
- Emergency Management Research Fellow, University of Tasmania (adjunct)
- Associate Professor, Aviation Human Factors, Swinburne University of Technology (part-time)
- Facilitator, Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience professional development Masterclasses in
- Decision-making Under Pressure, Leading Teams in Deep Uncertainty, Crisis Leadership in Disaster and Adversity (with David Parsons, Crisis Management Australia)
- Facilitating successful debriefs (with Cameron Scott)
- Design, develop and deliver masterclasses for Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Training Command in: High Consequence Decision Making; Leadership in Disaster, Crisis and Adversity, Coordinating Teams Operating in Disaster, Disaster Planning in Dynamic Environments (since 2018)
- Founding member Response and Recovery Aotearoa New Zealand (RRANZ), a consortium developing and delivering leadership capability for response and recovery managers. The consortium is a strategic partnership of universities, iwi, private training providers, and subject matter experts in response and recovery leadership and is led by Massey University in strategic partnership with New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) (since 2017)
- National Institute of Organisational Dynamics (NIODA) Research Networks and Advisory Group Member (since 2019)
- Australian Psychology Association, member (since 1994).
Past experience
- Coordination of a strategic partnership between the University of Tasmania and the Tasmania State emergency Service to update the Tasmania disaster risk Assessment, a facilitated consultation involving 12 workshops and 350 stakeholders.(2021-2022).
- Facilitation and development of a research strategy for the Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Council (2021).
- Royal Commission into Bushfires and Natural Disaster Arrangements, expert witness (2020)
- Human factors research project examining teamwork and distributed coordination Night Fire Bombing, Emergency Management Victoria (2019-2021).
- Evaluation of Senior Strategic Command Leadership Professional Development, Australian Federal Police and other jurisdictions (Queensland Police Service) with the Australian Institute of Police Management (2017-2019).
- International Research Fellow Institute of Adult Learning Singapore (2017-2019).
- Facilitation of annual Lessons Management Forum Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience (2017-2019).
- Expert Roundtable, SkillsFuture Singapore. One of 5 international experts invited to discuss the needs of Singapore’s future workforce and capability development needs. Invitation to conduct research to support Skills Future Strategies (2017-2020)
- Delivery of evaluation of performance on post TC Debbie and subsequent flooding for Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (2017).
- Conduct of debrief for Exercise Team Spirit- SA Police, (2016).
- Internal review of the Tasmanian Flooding events, with TAS SES (2016 )
- Review for Inspector General of Emergency Management, Victoria examining good practice for level 3 incident management teams (2016).
- Member Internal review of operations during the 2015-2016 bushfire season, Tasmania, Tasmania fire Service (2015).
- Development of Evidence-Based Simulation Resources (AFAC) (2015).
- Development of evidence-based capability resources and policy for the AFAC Emergency Management Professionalisation Scheme (2014-2015).
- Team Leader AFAC Capability roadshow series, AFAC (2014-2015).
- Development of Debrief Resources for the Australasian fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council (AFAC).
- Evaluation of the Linton Bushfire Staff Ride (2014)
- Synthesis of disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge for the Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre: ten years of human factors research as part of a team coordinated by Prof S. Ferguson, Central Queensland University for the Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre development of subsequent agency utilisation of research outcomes and learning product development. (2014).
- Facilitate debriefing and organisational learning (Staff Ride) from Dunalley and Peninsula fires, Tasmania (2013).
- National Project Leader, Bushfire and Natural Hazards Co-operative Research Centre http://www.bushfirecrc.com/projects/8-1/effective-incident-management-organising (2006-2013).
- Program Leader, Program E (Education & Training), Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre , (2006-2010).
- Board Member, Australian Emergency Management Institute (2012–2013).
- Member Professional Standards Group, Australasian Fire Authorities Council (2011–2012).
- Research Advisory Board member, Australian Emergency Management Institute (2010–2012).
- Member, Technical Committee, Activity Theory and Work Design International Ergonomics Association. (2006–2008).
- Visiting Research professor (Classe 1) Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), (2005).
- Assistant Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania (2006-2008).
- Australian Aviation Psychology Association (1996–2005)
- Program Manager, Changing nature of work and work organisation, funded through the Australian National Training Authority Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia, University of Tasmania (1997-1999).
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of New South Wales, 1980 Major in Psychology.( 1976-1980)
- Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Education, University of Tasmania, 1997
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania (1996- 1999)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (first class Honours), University of Tasmania (2013-2018)
- Academic peer reviewer for: Australian journal of Emergency Management, BMC Emergency Medicine, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, International Journal of Emergency Management, Safety Science,
Publications
Summary research metrics: Research gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christine_Owen2
- 100 publications including research items 5 books, 62 articles, 20 chapters, 9 conference papers
- Over 800 citations
- Owen, C., Scott, C. Adams, R. and Parsons, D. (2017) Beyond Command and Control: Leadership, culture and risk, Taylor and Francis, New York.
- Owen, C. (2017) Ghosts in the machine: Organisational culture and air traffic control. Taylor and Francis, NY, ISBN 978-1-4094-5290-4.
- Owen, C. (2014) (Ed.) Human factors challenges in emergency management. Ashgate Publishing, UK.
- Owen, C and Beguin, P and Wackers, G, (2009) (Eds.) Risky Work Environments: Reappraising Human Work within Fallible Systems, Ashgate, UK, pp. 207. ISBN 978-0-7546-7609-6
- Owen, C and Bound, HI, (2001) Contractor alliances and the new world of work, NCVER, Leabrook South Australia, pp. 64. ISBN 0-87397-755-6
- Owen, C.(in press) Leadership in crisis: learning to lead beyond command and control in Workplace learning for changing circumstances, H Bound, A Edwards, K. Evans and A Chia. (Eds) Routledge, Oxford.
- Owen, C, (2022) Enhancing Learning in the Workplace, in Pedagogies for Future-Oriented Adult Learners: Flipping the Lens from Teaching to Learning, H Bound, JP Tan and RLW Ying (eds), Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 103-121. ISBN 9783030928667
- Herrington, V. Blackman, D. Carroll, J. & Owen, C. (2019) Connected policing: The importance of social capital and boundary spanning in Australian police leadership. In Police Leadership (pp. 255-275). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Owen, C. (2015) Diagnosis in safety critical environments: emergency management and air traffic control, In Wiggins, M. (Ed.) Diagnostic expertise in organisational environments, Ashgate.
- Owen, C. (2014) The role of leadership, communication and teamwork in emergency management, in Owen, C. (Ed.) (2014) Human factors challenges in emergency management. Ashgate Publishing, UK.
- Owen C. & Hayes P. (2014) Human factors in emergency management, in Owen, C. (Ed.) (forthcoming) Human factors challenges in emergency management. Ashgate Publishing, UK.
- Owen, C., Bosomworth, K. and Curnin, S. (2014). The challenges of change in future emergency management, in Owen, C. (Ed.) (2014) Human factors challenges in emergency management. Ashgate Publishing, UK.
- Paton, D. Owen, C. (2013) Incident management in Penuel, B., Statler, M., and Hagen, R. (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Crisis Management, Volume One, Sage, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
- Owen, C., Beguin, P and Wackers, G. (2009) Risky Work Environments: Reappraising Human Work within Fallible Systems, Ashgate, UK, pp. 207. ISBN 978-0-7546-7609-6
- Owen, C. (2009). Accomplishing reliability within fallible systems. In: Risky work environments: reappraising human work within fallible systems. Ashgate, Aldershot UK, pp. 147-155.
- Owen, C. (2009). Toward developmental work in complex and fallible systems. In: Risky work environments: reappraising human work within fallible systems. Ashgate, Aldershot UK, pp. 298-314.
- Owen, C. (2009). Near misses and mistakes in risky-work: an exploration of work practices in High-3 environments. In: Risky work environments: reappraising human work within fallible systems. Ashgate, Aldershot UK, pp. 262-297.
- Owen, C. (2009). Shifting the focus to human work within complex socio-technical systems. In: Risky work environments: reappraising human work within fallible systems. Ashgate, Aldershot UK, pp 1-17.
- Owen, C, (2000) Making the link between human factors and organisational learning, Aviation Resource Management, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Andrew R Lowe & Brent J Hayward (Ed.), Hants England, pp. 327 - 336. ISBN 1-84014-974-4
- Owen, C, (2000) ‘Women in computer-mediated discussions’, Women, Work & Computerization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Ellen Balka & Richard Smith (ed), Boston USA, pp. 182-190. ISBN 079-237-8644
- Owen, C. (in press) Learning in the air traffic control tower: Stretching co-presence through interdependent sentience, Education Philosophy & Theory, special issue.
- Hocking L., & Owen, C. (2022) Beyond a hazard-centric approach to disaster risk assessment: a Tasmanian scenario-based approach, Australian journal of Emergency Management (in press).
- Owen, C., Krusel, N., & Bethune, L. (2022) Assessing models of research utilisation for emergency management practice, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Pre-print DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21326.33600.
- Hayes, P., Bearman, C., Butler, P., & Owen, C. (2021). Hayes, P., Bearman, C., Butler, P., & Owen, C. (2021). Non‐technical skills for emergency incident management teams: A literature review. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 29(2), 185-203.
- Curnin, S., Brooks, B., & Owen, C. (2020). A case study of disaster decision‐making in the presence of anomalies and absence of recognition. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.
- Owen, C., Krusel, N., & Bethune, L. (2020). Closing the research-practice gap in emergency services organisations. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 24(2), 103-114.
- Owen, C., Krusel, N., & Bethune, L. (2020). Implementing research to support disaster risk reduction. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, The, 35(3), 54-59.
- Brooks, B., Curnin, S., Owen, C., & Boldeman, J. (2019). New human capabilities in emergency and crisis management: from non-technical skills to creativity. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 34(4), 23.
- Brooks, B., Curnin, S., Owen, C., & Bearman, C. (2019). Managing cognitive biases during disaster response: the development of an aide memoire. Cognition, Technology & Work, 1-13.
- Owen, C, (July 2018) How organisations can – and do—utilise research Australian Journal of Emergency Management
- Owen, C. Hayes, P. Brooks, B. & Conway, G. (October 2018) Identifying the evidence to support incident management team capability, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vo. 33(3) pp. 44-49.
- Brooks, B., Curnin, S., Bearman, C., & Owen, C. (2018). Human error during the multilevel responses to three Australian bushfire disasters. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. DOI 10.1111/1468-5973.12221
- Owen, C., Brooks, B., Curnin, S., & Bearman, C. (2018). Enhancing Learning in Emergency Services Organisational Work. Australian Journal of Public Administration. DOI 10.1111/1467-8500.12309
- Bearman, C. Rainbird, S, Brooks, B, Owen, C. & Curnin, S. (2018) A literature review of methods for providing enhanced operational oversight of teams in emergency management, International Journal of Emergency Management, Vol 14(3) pp. 254-274
- Bearman, C., Rainbird, S., Brooks, B., Owen, C., & Curnin, S. (2017). Tools for monitoring teams in emergency management: EMBAM and TBM. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, The, 32(1), 40-43.
- Owen, C & Krusel, N. Bearman, C. & Brooks, B. (2017) From research outcome to agency change – mapping a learning trajectory of opportunities and challenges, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 32(4), pp 42-46.
- Owen, C. & Martin, F. (2017) Country Fire Authority establishes evidence base to guide future leadership development, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 32(4), pp 14-15
- Owen, C., Brooks, B., Bearman, C. and Curnin, S. (2016), Values and Complexities in Assessing Strategic-Level Emergency Management Effectiveness. J Contingencies Crisis Man, 24: 181–190. doi:10.1111/1468-5973.12115
- Brooks, B., Curnin, S., Bearman, C., Owen, C., & Rainbird, S. (2016). An assessment of the opportunities to improve strategic decision-making in emergency and disaster management. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 31(4), 41-46.
- Bosomworth, K., Owen, C. and Curnin, S. (2016) Addressing challenges for future strategic level emergency management: reframing, networking and capacity building" Disasters.
- Owen, C., Scott, C. Adams, R. and Parsons, D. (2015) Development of Leadership in Crisis: Beyond Command and Control, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol 30(3) pp 15-19
- Curnin, S., Owen, C., Brooks, B., Paton, D. and Trist, C. (2015) Role clarity, swift trust and multi-agency emergency coordination, Journal of Crises and Contingencies Management, Volume 23(1). DOI:10.1111/1468-5973.12072
- Bhandari, R. and Owen, C. (2015) Incident Management Approaches above the Incident Management Team level in Australia, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. DOI:10.1515/jhsem-2013-0054
- Bearman, C. Grunwald, J. Brooks, B. and Owen, C. (2015) Breakdowns in coordinated decision making at and above the incident management team level: An analysis of three large scale Australian wildfires, Applied Ergonomics 47(3) pp. 16–25.
- Curnin, S. Owen, C., Paton, D. & Brooks, B. (2015), A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination, Applied Ergonomics 47(11) pp. 300-307.
- Curnin, S., Owen, C. & Trist, C. (2014) Managing the constraints of boundary spanning in emergency management, Cognition Technology & Work 16(4) pp. 549-563.
- Curnin, S. & Owen, C. (2014) Spanning Organizational Boundaries in Emergency Management, International Journal of Public Administration. 37(5) pp. 259-270.
- Bhandari, R.B., Owen, C., and Brooks, B. (2014) Organisational features and their effect on the perceived performance of emergency management organisations, Disaster Prevention and Management, 23(3) pp. 222-242.
- Abassi, A., Hossain, L. and Owen, C. (2013) Social connectedness and adaptive team coordination during fire events. Fire Safety Journal. 59(7) pp. 30–36.
- Curnin, S. and Owen, C. (2013) Obtaining information in emergency management: a case study from an Australian emergency operations centre, Int. J. Human Factors and Ergonomics. 2(2/3) pp. 131-158.
- Owen, C. (2013) Gendered communication and public safety: women, men and incident management, Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 28(2) pp 1-17.
- Owen, C., Bearman, C., Brooks, B., Chapman, J., Paton, D., and Hossain, L. (2013) Developing a research framework for complex multi-team coordination in emergency management, International Journal of Emergency Management. 9(1), pp. 1-17.
- Hamra, J., Wigand, R., Hossain, L. and Owen, C, (2013) Network effects on learning during emergency events, Knowledge management and research practice pp. 1-11. ISSN 1477-8246
- Hamra, J., Hossain, L., Owen, C. and Abassi, A. (2012) Effects of networks on learning during emergency events. Disaster Prevention and Management, 21 (5) pp. 1-25. ISSN 1758-6100
- Owen, C. and Johnson, C. (2011) Fire planning helped by research, Fire Australia (Autumn 2011), pp. 22-23. ISSN 1032-6529
- Owen, C. and Page, W. (2010). The Reciprocal Development of Expertise in Air Traffic Control, International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies, 10 (1), pp. 131-152.
- Dwyer, I.L. and Owen, C, (2009) Emergency Incident Management: An Evolving Incident Control System Framework, Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 3 (2) pp. 66-75. ISSN 1834-4909
- Owen, C., Hemmings, L. and Brown, T. (2009). Lost in Translation: Maximising handover effectiveness between paramedics and receiving staff in the emergency department, Emergency Medicine Australasia, 21 (2), pp. 102 – 107.
- Owen, C. (2009). Instructor beliefs and their mediation of instructor strategies in air traffic control, Journal of Workplace Learning, 21 (6), pp. 477-495.
- Owen, C. (2008). Analysing joint work between aviation activity systems, Activite's Revue Electronique, 52(2), pp. 52-69.
- Owen, C. (2005). Beyond teamwork! Reconceptualising communication, co-ordination and collaboration in Air Traffic Control, Human Factors and Aerospace Safety: An International Journal, 4 (4) pp. 289-306. ISSN 1468-9456
- Owen, C. (2001). The role of organisational context in mediating workplace learning and performance, Computers in Human Behaviour, 17 (5/6) pp. 597-614. ISSN 0747-5632
- Long, S. Martin, F, Owen, C (2019) The shadow side of learning, in emergency service organisations presented at the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, New York, June 24-30
- Long, S. Martin, F, Owen, C (2019 )The shadow side of learning, leadership and culture in emergency services organisations presented at AFAC 19 August 2019 Conference: AFAC 19 At: Melbourne, Australia
- Owen, C. (2017) What does research tell us about learning lessons? Presentation at the Lessons Learned Forum, Australasian fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council
- Owen, C. Adams, R, Scott, C, and Parsons, D. (2016) Leadership in crisis some challenges for learning crisis leadership in the 21st Century, Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, Gold Coast, Australia; May
- Owen, C., Bearman, C., & Brooks, B., (2014) Measuring emergency management performance under adversity: The good the bad the ugly, AFAC 14, New Zealand, September,
- Owen, C., Bosomworth, K., Bearman, C., Brooks, B., Fogarty, L. and Conway, G. (2013). Politics, policies and paradigms: challenges of change in future emergency management presented to AFAC 13 Shaping Tomorrow Together Today, Melbourne, Australia; 09/2013.
- Curnin, S. and Owen, C. (2013). A typology to facilitate multi-agency coordination, 8th International Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference, Baden-Baden, Germany; 05/2013.
- Bearman, C., Owen, C., Brooks, B., and Grunwald, J. (2013). Problems of maintaining effective teamwork during out of scale events, Paper presented to the Research Forum day, AFAC & Bushfire CRC 2013 Conference, September Melbourne.
- Hamra, J., Hossain, L. and Owen, C. (2012). Social Network Analysis of Learning Teams during Emergency Events, International Conference on Decision Support Systems, June 28-30 2012, DSS 2012 – 16th IFIP WG8.3 Anávissos, Greece.
- Abassi, A., Hossain, L., and Owen, C. (2012), Exploring the Relationship between Research Impact and Collaborations for Information Science. System Science (HICSS), 45th Hawaii International Conference; 01/2012
- Owen, C, (2011) Role of teamwork and leadership in enabling emergency management coordination, Australasian emergency management training conference (p. 1)., 10 October 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 1-12
- Owen, C,(2011) The changing nature of emergency services multi-agency coordination, Proceedings of the Bushfire CRC & AFAC Conference Science Day 2011, 1 September 2011, Sydney, Australia, pp. 214-233. ISBN 978-0-9806759-9-3 (2011)
- Hamra, J and Hossain, L and Owen, C and Abassi, A, (2011) The influence of social networks on learning in disasters, GITMA Conference program, June 5-7 2011, Las Vegas, pp. 1 - 13.
- Abassi, A and Hossain, L and Hamra, J and Owen, C, (2010) Social networks' perspective of firefighters' adaptive behaviour and coordination, Social Net' 10, 18 - 20 December 2010, Hangzhou, China, pp. 1-6.
- Cameron-Tucker, H.L., Joseph, L., Wood-Baker, R. and Owen, C. (2009). A study of supervised exercise with the chronic disease self-management program (CDSMP) for COPD: Qualitative findings, European Respiratory Society Congress, European Respiratory Journal, Vienna, Austria, pp. 34 (53).
- Khawaja, A., Chen, F., Owen, C. and Hickey, G. (2009). Cognitive load measurement from user's linguistic speech features for adaptive interaction design. In: Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (5727). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 485-489.
- Owen, C., Hickey, G.J. and Douglas, J.M., (2008). Information flow and teamwork in Incident Control Centres , ISCRAM 2008 Committee, 3-7 May 2008, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 10. ISBN 978-0-615-20697-4
- Owen, C. (2008). Multiple Agency Incident Management Organising: Past, Present, and Future Challenges, EGOS 24th Colloquium, July 10 - 12, 2008, Amsterdam, pp. 1-24. ISBN 0415304733
- Owen, C. (2006). Analysing the activity of work in emergency incident management, Proceedings IEA 2006 Congress, 10-14 July, Maastricht, The Netherlands. EJ ISSN 0003-6870
- Owen, C. (2006) Using activity theory to analyse development of work practice and learning in High-3 work environments, Proceedings IEA 2006 Congress, 10-14 July, Maastricht, The Netherlands. EJ ISSN 0003-6870
- Owen, C. (2001). Learning, automation and interaction: the case of Australian air traffic control, The cognitive work process: automation and interaction, September, Germany, pp. 69-78. ISBN 3-932182-21-9
- Owen, C. and Bound, H.I. (2000). Strategic alliances and the new world of work: some preliminary findings, Future Research Futures, 23-24 March 2000, Canberra, pp. 311-318. ISBN 0 9586188 3 6
- Owen, C. (1999). The link between organisational context and learning in the workplace: Some implications for processes of structural reform, CLWR 7th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, 6 - 8 December 1999, Gold Coast, Queensland, pp. 86 - 95. ISBN 0 86857 961 0
- Owen, C. (1998). Communication and Technology, Who's Listening? - The Place of Communication Technologies in Rural Communities, July 1998, Launceston, pp. 1-8.
- Owen, C. and Williamson, J.C., (1998). Creating Educative Work Environments for Individual and Organisational Growth: Possibilities for Work in the 21st Century, Education for the 21st Century in the Asia-Pacific Region, March 1998, Melbourne, pp. 16.
OTHER INVOLVEMENTS
1994–current Member, Australian Psychological Society
1995 –1998 Member, National Executive, College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists
1997–1998 Chairperson, College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists . During this time I examined the changing nature of work and the challenges facing professionals to identify ways in which the APS and College could address member needs
1996–2005 Australian Aviation Psychology Association
2006–2008 Member, Technical Committee, Activity Theory and Work Design International Ergonomics Association. Participated as part of an international scientific committee to prepare a symposium at the International Cognitive Ergonomics Association Conference in Maastricht
2010–2012 Research Advisory Board member, Australian Emergency Management Institute
2011–2012 Member Professional Standards Group, Australasian Fire Authorities Council
2012–2013 Board Member, Australian Emergency Management Institute